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Following Dune: Half Two‘s grand spectacle and high-stakes drama – which led to huge crucial acclaim and hefty field workplace income – Warner Bros. Footage and Legendary are rapidly transferring on to organize the beforehand teased adaptation of Dune: Messiah, the sequel to the guide Dune. Right here you may discover all the pieces we find out about Dune: Messiah to date.
So far as followers and the press know, filmmaker Denis Villeneuve is not taken with doing greater than three Dune films. Frank Herbert diehards know that the novels get increasingly more tough to method because the saga continues, and that is with out even entering into the work of his son, Brian Herbert. But, Paul Atreides’ massive character arc could possibly be satisfactorily wrapped up with a 3rd installment that neatly adapts Messiah, a far leaner (however very completely different) guide than the primary one.
Canadian writer-director Villeneuve has efficiently delivered to life all the pieces that’s fascinating about Herbert’s authentic story in a giant approach. Nonetheless, Messiah’s materials is far more political, kooky, and nuanced, and comes with a wholly completely different set of challenges as a sci-fi guide to film adaptation. That stated, most of us will not begin doubting Villeneuve and his top-notch group of creatives now. Let the person prepare dinner, we are saying.
Past Villeneuve’s Dune films, sci-fi followers ought to be celebrating the franchise’s present renaissance of types, which incorporates Dune: Prophecy (a prequel collection coming to Max quickly) and the bold MMO online game Dune: Awakening. Must catch up? Try our complete Dune streaming information.
Dune: Messiah launch date
- Presumably December 18, 2026
Whereas Warner Bros. Footage and Legendary Footage have but to verify whether or not Denis Villeneuve’s subsequent film for them will certainly be Dune: Messiah, all the thrill is pointing to that being the case after Half Two’s large success.
Again in late June 2024, Warner Bros. and Legendary additionally set a Christmas 2026 launch date for Villeneuve’s subsequent “occasion movie” (additionally set for IMAX screens). We’ve not heard affirmation but that Messiah is subsequent for him, particularly with Nuclear Warfare, Cleopatra, and Rendezvous with Rama additionally lined up, nevertheless it seems he is already exhausting at work on the script, so make of that what you’ll.
Ought to Dune: Messiah be Villeneuve’s subsequent film, the discharge date that is at the moment on Warner Bros. and Legendary’s schedule is December 18, 2026. By the way, that slot can be occupied by a Star Wars film, so count on somebody to maneuver.
Dune: Messiah trailers
Even when Dune: Messiah shoots in some unspecified time in the future in 2025 and continues to focus on a December 2026 theatre launch, there will not be any official trailers nor stills to obsess over for an extended whereas. After all, we’ll maintain this text up to date, so examine again later.
What’s the plot of Dune: Messiah?
Spoilers forward for Dune: Half One and Two.
For essentially the most half, Dune: Half One and Two remained near the supply materials, but Villeneuve and co-writer Jon Spaihts made various adjustments that can certainly have massive repercussions transferring ahead. Specifically, Chani leaving Paul and his followers behind and using off into Arrakis’ desert after the Atreides inheritor turns into the subsequent Emperor and begins a holy conflict.
One other massive distinction is that Paul’s sister, Alia, is not born throughout the course of the second film. Within the guide, she’s the one who kills the evil Baron Harkonnen. We do, nonetheless, see a future model of the character by means of one among Paul’s visions, and she or he’s performed by Anya Taylor-Pleasure. Within the books, there is a 12-year hole between Dune and its follow-up. Even when Alia quickly grows up – like within the books – as a result of she’s a extremely unnatural youngster, the small hole between Dune: Half Two and Messiah’s manufacturing will drive Villeneuve and his group to make various changes. Almost definitely making Paul Muad’Dib’s holy campaign throughout the identified universe a lot shorter and the characters not as grown-up once we subsequent see them.
With out entering into main story spoilers right here, as we’re simply attempting to provide the fundamental premise of Messiah, the second guide sees Paul making an attempt to finish the preventing he began on Arrakis: he offers with political intrigue, infighting amongst his followers, and his quickly deteriorating private life. Within the guide, Chani performs the position of Paul’s Fremen spouse and authorized concubine, and that can in all probability be one other divergence level, since she outright rejected Paul and his holy conflict on the finish of Villeneuve’s Half Two.
Issues get even stranger and extra complicated as new menaces enter the scene in an try to overthrow the Emperor. Remember that Paul Atreides had the flexibility to foretell the long run… kind of, thus making antagonistic strikes in opposition to him quite tough to execute. That is the place a ghola (this universe’s model of a “kinda like a clone however not”) of the useless Duncan Idaho is available in, although issues aren’t so simple as they appear at first.
Dune: Messiah solid
Since Messiah is a direct continuation of Dune, count on all main gamers current within the guide to return. That features: Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Anya Taylor-Pleasure as Alia Atreides, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Zendaya as Chani, Javier Bardem as Stilgar, and Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam.
Different massive characters that would present up regardless of solely being briefly talked about within the novel are Woman Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin), and the previous Emperor, Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken).
There’s additionally the potential of Villeneuve bringing again Stephen McKinley Henderson’s Thufir Hawat and Tim Blake Nelson’s unknown character, who each sadly did not make the ultimate reduce for Dune: Half 2 because of the movie’s lengthy size.
Similar goes for Léa Seydoux’s Woman Margot Fenrig, who is not current within the supply materials for Messiah, however might nonetheless add to the big-screen adaptation.
Extra importantly, Jason Momoa must return as Duncan Idaho, since he performs an enormous position in Messiah as a genetically engineered human (a ghola) that appears similar to Paul’s useless good friend and even has a few of his recollections buried deep inside. We extremely doubt Momoa will probably be recast.
Dune: Messiah director, writers, & crew
Denis Villeneuve is locked to each direct and write the threequel, with Jon Spaihts’ (Prometheus, Physician Unusual) involvement as co-writer up within the air however possible.
We’re additionally anticipating different massive collaborators to return, corresponding to composer Hans Zimmer for the musical rating. Nonetheless, sure creatives’ schedules may battle with the manufacturing dates the studio and the filmmaker go together with, particularly if the film is certainly focusing on a late 2026 launch. For instance, cinematographer Greig Fraser could or will not be again as The Batman: Half II shoot could possibly be retaining him busy.
