IMAX confirms that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune 3 is to release in 2026, though there might be a question mark over its Dune: Messiah title…
If you download this PDF report from the Q2 2024 IMAX Investor Presentation, there are charts showing which films are being produced with IMAX in mind all the way through to the end of 2026.
Whatever the name ends up being I’m just glad they’re confident enough in a script that they can call a release date.
IMHO Villeneuve has made two damn near perfect Dune films so far, roll on the next.
People get hung up on deviations from the books. Duh, it’s a different medium. That’s like complaining that a painting of a sculpture doesn’t capture the far side of the sculpture.
I love that analogy. 👏
The second one put me to sleep.
Legit it felt like an extended montage, not a movie.
I wanted to like it so much.
I never find movies boring unless they are straight up bad. Slow pace doesn’t bore me at all.
It wasn’t the pace being slow, it’s that instead of content being present - the viewer is left to fill in the details of what has happened. I watched it more than once to capture all of the film. The narrative, in my opinion, skims the surface of what’s going on. We skip large parts of the story.
The second one was mostly action. Personally I thought it was a lot more entertaining than the first one.
I have a feeling this is something that will be debated for a long time lol
So it looks like Denis is confident with completing the screenplay now, instead of making another film first.
could its title be something other than Dune: Messiah?
He did adjust the story in Dune 2 to better align with Dune: Messiah but it also shows he is no respecter of the original stories, so he might still take things in a different direction, especially as Messiah is, in some ways a darker reaction to the success of Dune and it is unclear how well that would translate into a blockbuster movie. However, it may be Villeneuve has the confidence of the studios and will be given the room to make an… “anti-blockbuster”.
Maybe he’ll try to combine the next two together? I haven’t finished Messiah yet or finished the third one, but I heard it makes a good trilogy?
I took the liberty of posting the IMAX release slate in a separate post.
If you download this PDF report from the Q2 2024 IMAX Investor Presentation, there are charts showing which films are being produced with IMAX in mind all the way through to the end of 2026.
It’s interesting as it looks like a strong slate of blockbusters through the year, which might help the industry bounce back from this year. Unfortunately, it doesn’t show the potentially more interesting (to me) films but that’s fine, they’ll be a nice surprise.
I only watched the first one and for some reason assumed the sequel was the end. How naïve of me.
It was part two of the first book. “Dune 3” would be the second book, Dune Messiah.