# Dune (Film) Post-release thread (open spoilers from film) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 22, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991 "2021-10-22T09:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/561 "2023-06-29T21:00:02Z")
Yup : > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Well, this is unexpected: > > ['Dune Part 2': Christopher Walken Joins as Emperor Shaddam IV](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/christopher-walken-dune-part-2-emperor-shaddam-iv-1235265416/) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/562 "2023-06-29T21:00:04Z")
That’s him. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/563 "2023-06-29T22:55:50Z")
It’s a heck of a trailer, to be honest. Paul walking through the crowd with his hood on looks like a vision of the future, when he is “the prophet” or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/564 "2023-06-30T03:25:00Z")
I enjoyed the first, and this new trailer has me feeling pretty confident I’ll enjoy the second, too. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/565 "2023-06-30T21:54:26Z")
Looking forward to this as I never read the book(s). For as much as I enjoyed the first one it really did feel unfinished. Thinking and hoping I’ll really like it as a complete two part story. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/566 "2023-06-30T21:55:40Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Thinking and hoping I’ll really like it as a complete two part story. You will. Almost all the best stuff is after Paul and Mom go to the desert, which is how movie 1 ended. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/567 "2023-07-31T18:36:28Z")
OK, so I checked out a copy of the new Dune from the library to watch it again. I have less criticism now than the first time around. But some still applies. There’s more exposition than I had originally remembered. It’s more subtly placed than Lynch’s old-school just-state-it-plainly style, but it’s there. But there’s still not enough of it. I still found that despite Villeneuves beautiful imagery and production design, it sometimes dragged. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/568 "2023-10-25T17:41:51Z")
That was great, but this [Lego ornithopter](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/dune-atreides-royal-ornithopter-10327) appears to be for real. The flying Baron Harkonnen minifig with the giant robes is pretty impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/569 "2023-11-02T17:14:00Z")
Sure is! ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/570 "2023-12-12T18:10:44Z")
Trailer #3: > **[Dune: Part Two | Official Trailer 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA%2F)** > > You are not prepared for what is to come. #DunePartTwo - Only in theaters March 1.The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on “... One of the few movies I will see in the theatre in 2034. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/571 "2023-12-12T18:20:18Z")
Whatever you might think about how the story is being adapted, the sense of sheer scale is (chef kiss). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/572 "2023-12-12T18:28:45Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > One of the few movies I will see in the theatre in 2034. > Brian There’s no reason you should wait that long. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/573 "2023-12-12T18:30:07Z")
Whoops, meant 2024 – probably not release weekend, but soon after. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/574 "2023-12-14T22:37:14Z")
Dune Messiah has been greenlit for a 2027 release. > **[‘Dune: Messiah’ Greenlit by Warner Bros, 2027 Release Date Eyed — World of Reel](https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/12/13/bwb1j0tutubs0ooxabpsll2jg0c58q)** > > As for “Dune: Messiah,” the trilogy capper, we have an update on that project, and it seems to be picking up some major steam. At this point, its future making is turning into an inevitability.  ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/575 "2023-12-15T05:46:45Z")
I’m skeptical — not about the probability of it happening, but that it’s already official. That’s a movie clickbait site, not a legit news outlet, and its only citation is to Jeff Sneider who is a notoriously unreliable rumormonger (and also an **[asshole](https://www.mic.com/articles/160870/mashable-declared-oscars-so-white-over-twitter-disagreed)** who hasn’t been a true insider since he was **[fired from Variety for unprofessional behavior](https://www.thewrap.com/jeff-sneider-fired-variety-75291/)** ten years ago). Officially we know that Villeneuve finished the screenplay, but I don’t think WB is likely to greenlight the third film (which has a specific technical meaning in the film biz) until the second one opens and they see what the box office looks like. That’s especially true right now because the studio is in **[a lot](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-jettisons-more-key-executives-as-company-shake-up-continues-184214628.html)** of **[turmoil](https://deadline.com/2023/12/meredith-gertler-lisa-holme-exit-vanessa-brookman-promoted-warner-bros-discovery-1235667440/)** (which will doubtless continue as long as the **[same moron](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaming-companies-burying-shows-hbo-max-and-possibly-others-is-this-allowed/970032)** is **[in charge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-worried-about-turner-classic-movies/986264)**). When the greenlight announcement appears in Deadline or Variety or some other mainstream source, then we can take it to the bank. Until then, caution is advised. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/576 "2023-12-15T16:37:12Z")
Plus calling it the ‘trilogy capper’ makes me think the writer doesn’t know what they’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/577 "2023-12-15T19:55:23Z")
Villeneuve has said more than once that if he gets another shot past the second movie, he just wants to adapt _Messiah_ and then be done. He doesn’t see much value in adapting _Children_ and then _God Emperor_ is probably too weird for audiences. So when they say trilogy, they aren’t making a mistake about the books, they’re referring to the movie trilogy Villeneuve wants to make. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/578 "2023-12-16T01:02:01Z")
So, it seems that I don’t know what I’m talking about, ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/579 "2023-12-16T08:17:24Z")
No worries. I follow the ugly sausage-making of the entertainment industry a lot more closely than is probably sane or healthy. 🙂 No shame in being a casual observer and missing some details. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991/580 "2023-12-18T17:47:04Z")
This is the same industry that made _The Hobbit_ into a trilogy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-film-post-release-thread-open-spoilers-from-film/952991.md?page=30)