Dune Part 2 2023 (24, 25, 26...)
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So Timothy Chalamet is host SNL next Saturday. Aren't celebrities barred from promoting anything during a strike? He can't promote "Dune" and not even "Willy Wonka". I'm just confused because SNL could only get musicians and comedians to host after the writer's strike was over.
So, they don't do Dune or Wonka sketches.
Villeneuve has said he wants to make a trilogy ending with Dune Messiah.
Yeah i know but the second part is not successful enough to warrant Messiah it's still good enough to get Dune completely. Would still be nice to cap off Paul's story with Messiah and hope for the best that the studio might continue with the series even without Villeneuve at the helm, though i'm hesitant if they do because Villeneuve is just that good.
Another release date change. Moved closer this time, to March 1st. Also, it says they have a two-three week IMAX run and maybe longer which is a big change from the five weeks garunteed when it was supposed to release now.
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Paul's story doesn't really finish until Children of Dune. I'm still anxious to know if Alia features in part 2. Her story also ends with CoD, of course.
Well, in part 1 we found out about the pregnancy.
I don't think we know the actor playing her, though.
Oh that poor woman! 
I wonder if it's a fake name. "I don't want to be associated with this crap! Put me down as..."
Given that anything beyond Messiah is uncertain Villeneuve has to make a decision if and when he starts production. If the studio doesn't commit to go on, probably with someone else at the helm, he can't leave Messiah too open ended or open ended at all because the audience won't follow or at least be really annoyed to not get a story conclusion. If by the time the studio confirms they want to go on based on the success of Dune Part 2 and other indicators then i could see him sticking as close to the books as possible like he did with Dune ( with just a few deviations).
There was a picture guide to 'How Should I Read the Dune Series' I saw on Facebook once. Two points it made I think are relevant here:
"Read together, these two books (Dune+Dune Messiah) make a fantastic, mostly self-contained story. If you wanna stop (there), this is a great point. There's no telling whether you'll love or hate what comes next."
"There is no reason to actually read Children of Dune unless you're gearing up for The Big One: God Emperor."
"Read together, these two books (Dune+Dune Messiah) make a fantastic, mostly self-contained story. If you wanna stop (there), this is a great point. There's no telling whether you'll love or hate what comes next."
"There is no reason to actually read Children of Dune unless you're gearing up for The Big One: God Emperor."
God Emperor would be almost unfilmable as is - way too much talking. It might make a framing device for a two-part adaptation of Children as long as the reveal of what happens to Leto II is kept until near the end of the second part. It'd be an interesting challenge for some director. I doubt it would be a good prospect commercially.
This is the thing with movies, they adapt books and since they don't have dozens of hours to tell a book story line by line they condense. I could see this being filmed and sticking to the very core of the story - Leto II's realization that he has to play the villain for the history books in order to ensure humanity's survival and what he does to make it happen. You can throw in a couple of battles with the Fish Speakers to satisfy spectacle and action and slowly build up the reveal of why Leto II appears to be such a tyrant. He dies/sacrifices himself to restart the worm cycle and then a big epilogue showing humanity scatter across the galaxy and maybe lay a tiny, ominous teaser that some of those who went out are coming back with a vengeance.
I would be very confident Villeneuve could write an engaging God Emperor movie but for now it doesn't look like it's in the cards, it probably hasn't even been talked about in earnest.
Back around 2020, I read an interview with Lynch in which he got a bit impatient with a reporter who kept pressing Lynch for his take on the upcoming new DUNE movie and wouldn't accept that Lynch wasn't interested in it. "But surely you must be curious?"
Lynch's response, in essence, was that DUNE was his biggest mistake, his biggest failure, and generally an unhappy memory he tried to think about as little as possible, so why on Earth would he want to revisit the subject at all?
Yes, that would be a quick way to torture an artist. I do not recommend this at all.
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