Denis Villeneuve Wants To Make 'Dune' Into A Trilogy, Pull From 'Dune: Messiah'

TV & Film

Jul 3

Fans of Frank Herbert’s classic science-fiction epic know there’s more than just the first book, Dune. In totality, there are indeed 16 books in the series, and most of them were written after Herbert’s death and continued under other writers and his son, Brian. While there are surely some bizarre things in Dune, the successive novels take that even further. At one point, Paul’s son turns into a hybrid human mixed with a sand worm.

With the second part of the Denis Villeneuve take on the book due out this November in theaters, the latest trailer came out a few days ago. It has now been confirmed that Villeneuve wants to cap his project off with a third film that adapts the sequel to the book, titled Dune: Messiah.

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According to Collider, the third movie, if it is green-lit, would be written by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts. This has been a lifelong dream of Villeneuve, and he seems to have possibly strong-armed Warner Bros. into the possibility when he supposedly added“Part One” to the credits when the first movie was shown at its Venice premier. Despite the film’s release on streaming service HBO MAX as a result of the pandemic, it did rather well, enough for Warner Bros. to go ahead with the second part. If all goes well with Part Two, in a time of labor cuts and tightening wallets, Warner Bros. could be incentivized to give Part Three the go-ahead.

Dune: Messiah continues Paul’s story. Now the Emperor of human space, Paul’s actions with the Fremen have launched a bloody jihad across the stars, and he struggles to contain it. In the meantime, the institutions that existed before his rule plot to overthrow him, including his wife-of-circumstance, the former emperor’s daughter, Irulan. Paul refuses to have a child with her, and she is slipping contraceptives to Paul’s lover and concubine, Chani. In an ever-tightening net of political plots and assassination attempts, Paul and Chani do have children, and they take over his empire.

Dune: Part Two comes to theaters on November 3.

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