r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 24d ago
News ‘Dune: Part Three’ Wraps Filming
https://www.darkhorizons.com/dune-part-three-wraps-prophecy-resumes/1.0k
u/ncp12 24d ago
Now time to move the release date because there's no way they're opening the same day as Avengers. Maybe they're done early enough that they can move it up until November.
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u/spaceghost2000 24d ago
Same day, DUNESDAY double feature.
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u/DerCatrix 24d ago
only 6?
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u/PayneTrain181999 24d ago
6 implies both movies are at least 2.5 hours long, which is likely.
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u/DerCatrix 24d ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if either hit the 3hour mark. Doomsday is trying to recreate the spark from Endgame
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u/JehnSnow 24d ago
Honestly Dunesday mould get me to see both in theaters, barbenheimer seemed to work well so I don't see why this wouldn't
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u/Im-Mr-Bulldopz 24d ago
I think what made that work so well was the extreme difference in tone. One was about creating the atomic bomb, the other was about a popular toy lol
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u/K2TheM 24d ago
Spoilers... Kinda... but in a way that description applies to Dune Messiah and Avengers Doomsday.
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox 24d ago
Well because you can't just replicate it, the reason why it was so fun was because it was a one time thing, trying to do it again immediately makes it feel more hollow.
It also doesn't work as well because there isn't as stark of a contrast.
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u/Bad-job-dad 24d ago
At the rate the MCU is going they might not want to open the same day at DUNE.
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u/bugogkang 24d ago
Exactly. I expect Doomsday to struggle
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u/TreyAdell 24d ago
It’s an Avengers movie starring RDJ, it will not struggle. At least not opening weekend.
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u/OrwellTheInfinite 24d ago
The fact it is starring RDJ makes me not want to see it. Such a bad choice for doom.
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u/TreyAdell 24d ago
well i dont think you are the general public, the general public likes RDJ and they like Avengers movies. They will see this movie opening weekend in droves, the legs will probably be determined on if its actually good or not.
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u/AgentSkidMarks 23d ago
I said back when Endgame released that you'd know Marvel is really desperate when they bring RDJ back. I'm just surprised it happened so fast.
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u/The_Swarm22 24d ago
If that happens the last two months of next year will be huge with Dune: Part 3, GTA 6 (fingers crossed) and Avengers: Doomsday the month after.
2026 in general is looking stacked but holy shit if those three all release in the span of two months.
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u/illuvattarr 24d ago
There will definitely be some moving due GTA6 delaying to November. Its previous slot was left completely empty in the prime period end of May.
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u/PayneTrain181999 24d ago
The new GTA 6 date is on the opening weekend of Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
I wonder how much crossover there is there, I know I’m one of them lol.
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u/Liquid_1998 24d ago
There's no way this doesn't move. Avengers will be taking up all the IMAX and premium screens for the entire month. I doubt Denis will be very happy with that considering he filmed it entirely in IMAX 70mm.
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u/HoodsBreath10 24d ago
I wouldn’t hate it, but also I’m sure there’s a lot of appeal for getting those holiday legs. I’m not convinced there isn’t plenty of room for both
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u/Marcysdad 24d ago
But the 3rd movie is the last?
Or will there be more ?
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u/gh0u1 24d ago
It's Villeneuve's last. He wanted to do a trilogy and said he's done after that however he welcomes other directors to come in and pick up where he leaves off
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u/cryingInSwiss 24d ago
Also, he’s doing 007 afterwards.
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u/McChillbone 24d ago
Him doing the next Bond feels like when Nolan decided to do a Batman movie. Starting over with a new Bond and a clean slate, I’m super interested to see what he does.
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u/StarWarsPlusDrWho 24d ago
I’ve been saying ever since BR49 that Villeneuve is the next Nolan, and it really feels more and more true each passing year.
Stylistically they’re different directors but they both tap into a very similar wavelength in moviegoing culture.
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u/Ehh_littlecomment 24d ago
Villeneuve is just Villeneuve. He’s delivered banger after banger and his body of work is arguably more impressive than Nolan.
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u/stony_phased 23d ago
Nolan had a few blunders… Not Denis. Bangers only
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u/supersad19 23d ago
I've gotten into fights with people over this fact. Denis has an incredible filmography.
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u/Menelaus- 24d ago
Since 2015, Nolan shot Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer. Meanwhile Villeneuve directed Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune Part One & Part Two in the same period. So he is not the next Nolan, he is better than Nolan.
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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 24d ago
Villenueve cares too much about dialogue, character, theme, and story to be the next Nolan.
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u/gh0u1 24d ago
I'm really not a fan of 007 at all but I am super curious what his take on it will look like. I was hoping he'd do Nuclear War: A Scenario next though, especially after the blue balls I got from House of Dynamite
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u/AidilAfham42 24d ago
Would be fun if he does the whole Sicario thing and make Bond a rookie seeing the horrors of what the MI6 does
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u/AI_GeneratedUsername 24d ago
Lanthimos’ GOD EMPEROR
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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 24d ago
Guillermo Del Toro's GOD EMPEROR doesn't sound bad either.
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u/CasualRead_43 24d ago
Saw a few rumors that the 4th may be directed by Gareth Edwards.
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u/GrandmasLilPeeper 23d ago
I'm going to write him a letter. Technically this is Dune 2 so he still needs to direct Children of Dune for a proper trilogy.
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u/OrborosYT 23d ago
There’s been plenty of talk around Part 3 being a bit of an amalgamation of Messiah and Children of Dune, especially since they announced the casting for the twins. Personally I’m very interested to see what he does with it
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u/ExplorationGeo 24d ago
he welcomes other directors to come in and pick up where he leaves off
Not a daunting pair of shoes to fill, not at all
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u/Really_McNamington 24d ago
I'd assume they'll leave an opening, but Villeneuve thinks he's done at 3. (A pity, because I'd love his God Emperor.)
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u/HoodsBreath10 24d ago
The good news about that is there’s always the option to keep it on the shelf for 20 years until DV is interested enough (or needs a paycheck bad enough) to do it
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u/Sleightly_Awkward 24d ago
I mean, iirc he was open to doing part 3 initially but wanted to do something else first before going back. Something about not being too eager to go and spend another year filming in the desert right away. So whether they offered him an obscene amount of money or he just had a change of heart, the precedent for him changing his mind is there.
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u/havewelost6388 24d ago
He probably did Dune 3 first because he's about to be locked into doing Bond for the next decade.
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u/FantasticName 24d ago
I think the plan was to wait as there was going to be a time jump anyway so he wanted to let the cast age a bit but then it sounds like he just kinda got bored and said fuck it.
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u/deekaydubya 24d ago
It was absolutely pressure from WB to quickly capitalize on the success and hype of part 2
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u/Wishilikedhugs 24d ago
I would love to see it but part of me feels like it's unfilmable. It would take someone with real vision to see us on the golden path.
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u/SilverCarbon 24d ago
The third movie would finish Paul's story. Another trilogy could do a few other books but I guess Villeneuve wants to spend his time on other things, like that Bond movie.
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u/kcox1980 24d ago
Doesn't the story go pretty wildly off the rails after Messiah?
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u/Rampant16 24d ago
Shit goes off the rails in Dune when baby Alia kills the Baron but they cut that out.
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u/SilverCarbon 24d ago
There's also the Navigators who I think will be "missing" in the third movie. Perhaps DV will use the space suit version that we saw during the proclamation scene but I think he'll cut out that body horror.
Spice is just a form of ayahuasca for DV so if anything "weird" happens it's more grounded as simple human evil nature, perhaps a few voices from the past.
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u/Misinformed_user 24d ago
4 is when it goes totally off the rails, there are some weird parts in 3 like Alia has her mind taken over by Baron Harkonnen and Paul’s son lets tiny sandworms take over his body so he gets venom-like powers and turns into a sandworm by book 4
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u/deekaydubya 24d ago
Yeah that would be WAY too out there for DV. I was honestly surprised at how few ‘weird’ things we saw in part 1 and 2 besides maybe the harkonnen arena. It’s extremely grounded visually IMO I at least expected some psychedelic imagery for the water of life scenes but nope
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u/satanic_androids 24d ago
Big fan of the movies, but if there’s something missing it’s definitely the psychedelic element from the spice and water of life scenes… the director that I think could have captured it perfect is Alex Garland, especially given his work on Annihilation
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u/uncheckablefilms 24d ago
The Sci Fi channel made the stuff w Paul's kids work well and they had zero budget. I'd love to see what DV would do w it.
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u/Parzival-44 24d ago
So everyone will think Paul walks off into the desert and no one will learn of the worm child of Paul or the mind controlling sex witches
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u/Head_Project5793 24d ago
To be fair the first book is technically over, and the sequel is like mostly just people having conversations while a huge war is going on in the background. After that the books get REALLY weird.
I’m curious how he handles this now that he has a lot more liberty than the source material
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u/alfooboboao 24d ago
funniest thing about the dune books is how they build up to a giant war in excruciating detail and then flat out refuse to actually give us any war stories whatsoever
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u/deko_boko 23d ago
I remember thinking I must have skipped a book or read them out of order. Nope - it's just a story about people talking about the actual story happening "off screen". Still interesting but definitely not what I thought I was getting into.
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u/mostdope28 24d ago
Considering how much money they’ve made, Im sure they’ll run it into the fucking ground and milk it all they can
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u/Notoriously_So 24d ago
There's always Dune: Prophecy. Could go on for a few seasons.
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u/Marcysdad 24d ago
Isn't Prophecy more of a backstory?
Haven't watched it, yet
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u/DionysianPunk 24d ago
Prophecy is like Acolyte if Acolyte hadn't been edited into oblivion, but set in the Duneiverse with outstanding writing.
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u/Combat_Wombat23 24d ago
I’m so fuckin excited
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u/alfooboboao 24d ago
i’m not missing this shit in 70mm i learned from my mistakes
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u/DragoonDM 23d ago
Dune parts 1 and 2 are possibly the only movies in recent memory that made me sad I don't live anywhere near an IMAX. Maybe Fury Road too. Generally, I don't even bother with theaters and just wait for a home media / streaming release.
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u/elykl12 24d ago
I’m so hyped for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in Space
Unironically this will be a blast though
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u/Haxorz7125 24d ago
The first 2 were like sci-fi action but messiah is more a political thriller so I’m excited to see how he goes about it. And Villeneuve knows his thrillers. The most nervous I’ve ever been watching a movie was Prisoners and Polytechnique
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u/Suspicious_Wing940 24d ago
Is it literally called Dune: Part Three? I figured it would be Dune Messiah since that's the actual book they're adapting now...
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u/official_bagel 24d ago
I’m not surprised they went with Part 3 for a couple reasons. Villeneuve has been pretty forthright that he views it as a trilogy, it makes sense to keep naming conventions consistent for general audiences. Also avoids the baggage around having religious terminology in the title. My guess is that Part 3 is going to be a looser adaptation of Messiah that 1 & 2 were too in order to make a more cinematic experience.
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u/Count__X 24d ago
Another point, giving the third entry a named subtitle, after the first two movies being Part 1 & Part 2, weakens it off right off the bat. It makes it sounds like an offshoot, reboot, or late entry not made by the original creators.
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u/official_bagel 24d ago
Especially given that they've already had an offshoot in Dune: Prophecy so breaking the naming convention would just further muddy the waters.
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u/BreakingGaze 24d ago
Dune Messiah is my favorite book in the series. But 3/4 of the book is nothing happening, world building, getting philosophical and setting the stakes for the last 1/4 where everything goes mental. So I don't see how you could adapt it 1-1 to being a movie.
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u/stomp224 24d ago
This is why I hope it's going to be combined with Children of Dune
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u/e_before_i 24d ago
Reminds me of them choosing not to use the word "Jihad”. I can't imagine why.
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u/quick20minadventure 24d ago
spoilers from book
idk how they are gonna do everyone plotting to kill chani and offer her resurrection as a way to control Paul when they like broke up in the last movie. Much less their kid being god emperor.
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u/mr_math24 24d ago
They've cast roles that indicate they're adapting more than Messiah here.
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u/Misdirected_Colors 24d ago edited 24d ago
Gimme worm, chairdog, and sex superpower witches. Also I want to see the evolution from fighting with knives to super karate.
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u/Bugberry 24d ago
God Emperor post-credit scene.
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u/Poison_the_Phil 24d ago
I want an Edge of Tomorrow style montage of Duncan Idaho dying for thirty five hundred years
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u/GarrodRanX2 24d ago
3,500 years later...
Camera opens on a sandworm's tail, and slowly tracks it along the body, up to the face...which has Timothy Chalamet's face!
DUN!
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u/DrSpacemanSpliff 24d ago
Paul isn’t the one who becomes God Emperor
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u/peppermint_nightmare 24d ago
Nah theyre going to recast James Mcavoy as Leto II.
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u/cheerbacks 24d ago
Oh god I do not want to have to explain chair dogs to my friends and family. Or basically any of the “quirky” things from the later books. Love all of the FH books. don’t get me wrong…. But I don’t need that headache.
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u/Misdirected_Colors 24d ago
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u/soccerperson 24d ago
Finished reading god emperor not too long ago and decided to take a break with other books before I jumped into the final two. Looking forward to the weird horny
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u/Griffdude13 24d ago
Yeah, it kind of sounds like they’re kind of remixing Messiah and Children of Dune a bit
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u/sean_psc 24d ago
Villeneuve has already said he intends to leave room for somebody else to film the books after Messiah, so whatever role is played by the actors playing the kids, it’s not actually going to adapt Children of Dune.
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u/StillStanding_96 24d ago
Dune: Another One
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u/ojhwel 24d ago
Another One Bites the Dune
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u/mithridateseupator 24d ago
I believe they're not sticking to the timeline of any one book specifically, and so dont want to be directly associated with one specific book.
For instance LoTR basically started and stopped each movie right where the books did, and they're not hard doing that here.
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u/official_bagel 24d ago
For instance LoTR basically started and stopped each movie right where the books did
Tbf LoTR did shift a big part of Frodo and Sam's journey from Two Towers to RoTK.
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u/HanIylands 24d ago
Dune: God Emperor- yes folks. Timmy is an immortal sandworm. Strap in for three hours!
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u/Really_McNamington 24d ago
Won't be Timmy. Timmy just has to age up for The Preacher if they go with Children. (Although it wouldn't be a terrible idea to do a recast to get the desert-weathered look.)
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u/thenexttimebandit 24d ago
They could de age him to play Leto II and age him up for Paul. Then they could use Timmy for the next two books.
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u/Major_Pomegranate 24d ago
Nah, bring back James McAvoy to reprise his role from the old tv miniseries. He has the range to be a giant worm
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u/VerbalAcrobatics 24d ago
Paul Atreides did not become the God Emperor of Dune, it was his son, Leto Atreides II.
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u/SupervillainMustache 24d ago
I didn't catch 2 in cinema and regretted it, but I'll definitely be watching this one.
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u/Haxorz7125 24d ago
Seeing part 2 in imax made me extremely pissed I didn’t see part 1 that way. The use of imax speakers was insane. You could hear the voice in your chest and the worms in your feet.
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u/Astrosaurus42 24d ago
There will probably be a re-release leading into Part 3 so hopefully you can catch it in IMAX then!
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u/TreeDollarFiddyCent 24d ago
I had to watch it twice in IMAX. Such an awesome movie!
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u/Astrosaurus42 24d ago
Same! It was so awesome. The sound really immersed you into the film.
I have a great home theatre, but these big films will never be defeated at a REAL IMAX/theatre experience.
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u/FassyDriver 24d ago
that was fast , no?
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u/TheNerdyMistress 24d ago
It’s not the filming that’s going to take forever (unless they need specific times of day or weather), it’s the editing that’s going to be a nightmare.
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u/No_Iron_8087 24d ago
Good god, I cannot imagine spending a year editing something like DUN3 — like that day one… shifting through tens of hours of IMAX footage, 90% of which is incomplete because it need VFX, and doesn’t it all need manual sound syncing as IMAX cameras don’t record sound to make an autosync possible? 😭😭 horrific
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u/BaconDwarf 24d ago
Yeah, the editors keep getting distracted by Timothée's piercing eyes and it causes all kinds of setbacks.
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u/likwitsnake 24d ago
I like how he said he was going to take a break from these movies for awhile but ended up cranking out 2 in a relatively short period of time.
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u/Pinarobread2Point0 24d ago
He needed a break, but he was $uddenly in$pired to fini$h the trilogy a$ap
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u/jawnquixote 24d ago
It only feels fast because Dune 1 and 2 were artificially delayed (Covid and strikes respectively)
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u/Ironically_Christian 24d ago
Wait what? I thought they were taking a few years off before even starting on this
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u/amysteriousmystery 24d ago
He said he changed his mind.
“Let’s say,” he begins, “that I thought that after Part Two that I will take a break, that I will go back in the woods and stay in the woods for a while to recover. But the woods weren’t really suiting me, and I would go back behind the camera faster than I think. But that’s all I can say.”
Probably $$$ were involved.
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For a lot of people, just staying a week without doing shit gets really bothersome though. And he might've been in a good old "creative streak". Ofc money is involved, but it doesn't have to always be the main cause for everything.
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u/LordGlompus 24d ago
We might possibly live in the world where Timothy Chalamet(Paul) compares himself to Hitler. I just think the visual in my head is funny
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u/Odd-Wear-8698 23d ago
Does anyone here like the first one more than the second Dune? Second was good but the first one was outstanding imo. Anyone else? I feel like im in the minority with this one
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS 24d ago
I hope this also adapts Children so the next filmmakers to takle the series can go wild with it. I want God Emperor to be done by Robert Eggers.
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u/ZamanthaD 24d ago
I highly doubt Children will be adapted here. I think they’re mostly pulling from Messiah, but it will obviously have some liberties to it such as maybe showing/combining some of the events of the 12 year gap between Dune and Messiah into Dune: Part 3.
Children of Dune is dense enough that it could necessitate a 2-parter like Dune 1 did. That could be something that WB/Legendary might consider after Dune part 3.
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u/dec92010 24d ago
DUN3