Denis Villeneuve: If I Ever Do ‘Dune 3,’ It Will Be ‘Because It’s Going to Be Better’ Than ‘Part Two’ … ‘Otherwise, I Don’t Do It’

by ICumCoffee

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  2. They’ll do more. It’s making a lot of money. It’s a matter of when not if.

  3. Then don’t leave it on a cliffhanger.

    I loved the movie but Part 2 didn’t have to have that ending.

  4. I had assumed he was already making a trilogy, is 2 really where it was going to be left? That seems like a strange place to end the story.

  5. It would be pretty easy to make it better than 2, Denis. The bar is not high.

  6. I haven’t watched any. So are parts 1 and 2 the whole story?

  8. I don’t see any way how an adaptation of Messiah could be better than the finale of Dune. Thats before it all started playing fast and loose with the source material, though.

  9. Dude, shut up. Is he really going to pass on all that money just to shoot a movie??

  11. I doubt Warner Bros. Is going to wait on him to be ready.

  12. How odd that Denis suddenly seems tapped out and uninterested in making a third movie… Dune 2 built to such a momentum and was so open-ended, it seemed like a third movie was a given.

  13. It’ll make sense for him to wait a bit. Not only to make sure the script is “better” than part 2, but also since some time will have to have elapsed to account for Paul’s sister being all grown (as seen in his visions in part 2).

  14. I know it’s not going to happen but I would really like to see Villenueve tackle all 6 books

  15. I hate the idea that one of my favorite directors is wasting his time on a franchise. I want to see some more original films of his.

  16. Can’t wait to see him as a giant sand worm god emperor.

  17. Great, because Dune II was boring AF. I was much better

  18. Well Dune 2 wasn’t better than Part 1 but he still did it.

  19. There’s gonna be more Dune movies whether he’s involved or not, question is when they start getting bad

  20. Translation: I’ve taken a substantially smaller cut than I should’ve to get these movies made and now I want to be paid fairly.

  21. That’s a good pressure to put on the writers and funding of the project, because Americans tend to get complacent after they get a little bit of success

  23. Wow if there’s no actual conclusion this whole film franchise becomes HIGHLY forgettable.

  25. He should take all the time he needs to come up with a great script for part 3, and to get some other projects going. I’m convinced he’ll want to direct a different film before returning to the desert for Messiah.

    If WB is smart they’ll do some TV shows based on the Dune franchise. They could adapt all the Brian Herbert prequel books into a Game of Thrones style TV series, or do anthology stuff where each season is following different characters or houses / factions.

    I never cared to read any of the Brian Herbert novels, but I wouldn’t mind watching adaptations of those stories if they’re well made.

    All of that should keep audiences and fans interested in the Dune franchise until DV delivers Messiah.
    Also, the books following Messiah could be adapted into an awesome TV show as well after DV is done directing Dune.

  26. I wouldn’t be all that eager to rush into an adaptation of Messiah either.

    1. He’s changed some of that book’s setup in how he ended Dune so those ripples need attending to.
    2. It’s almost purely a chamber-room political thriller with maybe one or two setpieces
    3. The whole point of the book is **Paul realizing he’s 50x worse than Hitler** (not a joke, not subtext, LITERAL TEXT) and trying to make something good out of that

    So yeah, he’s probably not in any real all-fired rush to synthesize his changes with the novel as is, and come up with something that will work the way Dune did.

  27. Disclaimer: I loved dune 2. But i also thought the plot felt rushed. Yes, even with nearly 3 hours of reel time. The baron went from nearly invincible to easily swatted down. I may be in the minority but I would have loved to see this play out as a tv series like GoT.

  28. “Hey Warner Bros, you know how I just made you a fuckton of money? Well, I’m not so sure about Dune 3, unless…?”

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