Dune: Part Two is now enjoying its triumph after becoming the largest movie of the year thus far with a $81.5 million opening weekend gross at the box office.
Sequels frequently follow an audience’s positive response. Regarding the Dune franchise, director Denis Villeneuve has openly stated that he wants to see a trilogy of Paul Atreides’s narrative.
Before Dune: Part Two opened on March 1, Villeneuve made an interview with the South Korean media in which he stated, “The screenplay [for Dune: Part Three, aka Dune: Messiah] is almost finished, but it’s not finished. It will take a little time…There’s a dream of making a third movie…it would make absolute sense to me.”
Regarding every detail of Dune: Part Three, the director of the movie not only keeps the rumours of a third movie alive but almost positively hypes it up. Denis Villeneuve acknowledged in an interview with CNN, an American news platform, that the third Dune movie is currently under production, despite not having received official approval.
“I signed for two movies at the beginning,” he said. “I felt when finally the movie finished with Part Two, I felt like, ‘Okay, so I did it.’ But I would love [and] I think it would make sense to me to finish Paul Atreides’ arc by doing this Dune: Messiah, and it’s in the works right now.”
Timothée Chalamet plays Atreides in the television series based on Frank Hebert’s science fiction book from 1965.
