Dune: Half Two director Denis Villeneuve has turn out to be one of many largest names in Hollywood over the previous decade, and this second Dune movie is new floor for him–it’s his first-ever sequel that he is directed. The query now, as Dune: Half Two hits theaters to near-universal acclaim from critics, together with me, is what number of extra does he wish to make?
It is not a query with a straightforward reply at present. These first two Dune movies work as a companion as a result of they each adapt the unique Dune novel and basically perform as one very lengthy movie. The third film would transfer on to the subsequent guide, Dune Messiah, and Villeneuve is not essentially going to even direct that one, although he is already engaged on the screenplay.
“I actually tried to make Half One and Half Two, like, in my thoughts, it might be a completed story. I may stroll away from Dune and really feel that I went there, I went to Arrakis, I stated what I needed to say about Arrakis,” Villaneuve advised me once I requested him about his long-term plans. “However I really feel that, and I felt that as I used to be doing Half One, that it might be an amazing concept to do a 3rd film with Dune Messiah, the place I’ll end Paul Atreides’ arc, utterly end it. And so there will probably be a risk for me to return a final time. I believe that it is within the works proper now. And if we handle to do a powerful screenplay, I’d return.”
So if the script does not come out the best way Villeneuve likes, he could skip making the third film. But when he does direct Dune: Half Three, he may simply preserve going with it after that with Dune 4 and past. But it surely’s not a query he actually has a solution for proper now, and it is uncertain that can change any time quickly.
“I am a giant, huge Dune fan. However as a filmmaker, I believe that, for my psychological sanity, will probably be fascinating additionally to–there’s different tales that I wish to inform. And people films are very lengthy to make, and it takes years and years. And so I really feel that the reality is that I am going one film at a time,” Villenueve stated.
“Now that Half Two is completed, I really feel that I may do a 3rd one. When the third one will probably be completed, how will I really feel? I do not know, possibly I’ll discover you once more in three or 4 years, like, ‘You already know what? I am doing one other.’ However I can not say that for now.”
There are different components that will probably be thought-about as well–how many a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} Warner Bros decides to spend on Dune films is not completely as much as Villeneuve. However success on the field workplace and large love from critics–a mixture the primary Dune nailed although it was obtainable to stream on HBO Max the day it was launched in theaters–tends to earn a filmmaker loads of goodwill. However Villeneuve stated the primary movie’s success ended up being a significant inventive boon, not as a result of it gave them extra inventive freedom, however relatively as a result of it boosted morale in a giant approach.
“The best way the primary film was acquired, in fact, created a pleasure in my group, and other people got here again to work with a giant smile. It was a lift. There was a starvation to return to Arrakis, we have been all excited to return. It was the primary time I used to be experiencing that, I would by no means carried out that earlier than to return, it was extraordinarily fascinating,” Villeneuve advised me.
“The one factor is that we have been a little bit of fools as a result of the film was far more formidable. And I had written one thing with Jon Spaihts that was far more complicated. So we labored very exhausting. It was not a straightforward film to make. By far the most important problem technically of my life.”
Dune: Half Two lands in film theaters on Friday, March 1.