Director Denis Villeneuvewhich had already given us great films like The arrival (2016) or blade runner 2049 (2017), has been in charge of the second adaptation of dunes (2021), the famous novel by Frank Herbert (1965) with which a six-volume literary saga begins, after Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed project and David Lynch’s disastrous proposal (1984). With her he has achieved his biggest box office hitthanks to a gross of 400 million dollars worldwide, and a majority critical approval.
Both positive circumstances have guaranteed a continuation, scheduled for 2023. Before the premiere of the first, Denis Villeneuve hinted that another film about Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and company on the desert planet Arrakis could depend on a good box office in theaters : “It would take a really bad result at the box office to not have Dunes: Part 2because [a los productores de Warner Bros.] They love the movie,” he said. an interview with Jordan Farley and Jack Shepherd for TotalFilm. Green light to continue, then.
More of the Harkonnen house in ‘Dune: Part 2’ according to Denis Villeneuve
Now, the Canadian reveals more details about the plot of what is to come in Dunes: Part 2 during a conversation with Ben Travis who has published Empire. “We’re supposed to shoot in late summer,” he explains. “I will say that it is mostly designed. What helps us right now is that this is my first time revisiting a universe. So I’m working with the same team; everyone knows what to do, we know how it will be. The movie it will be more challenging, but we know where we are stepping. And the script is written. So I feel confident.”
“When you adapt, you have to make bold decisions to bring things to life. And I think that was the best way to introduce this world to a wide audience”, continues Denis Villeneuve. “Now, in the second [película]I want to have more flexibility, and it will be possible to go a little deeper in some of these details.
“It’s like a game of chess. Some new characters will be introduced in the second part”, such as Feyd-Rautha; “And one decision I made early on was that the first part would be more about Paul Atreides and the Bene Gesserit, and his experience of coming into contact with a different culture for the first time. In the second part, there will be much more Harkonnen material”. We look forward to it.