Denis Villeneuve has a fan in fellow director Christopher Nolan, who just lately gave him a rave overview.
The 2x Oscar-winning praised Dune: Part Two as “a miraculous job of adaptation,” wrapping up Villeneuve’s two-part function portrayal of Frank Herbert‘s 1965 sci-fi novel.
“Taking the second half and making an unbelievable conclusion to the story,” mentioned Nolan on a latest DGA panel with Villeneuve. “What a exceptional piece of labor.”
Nolan added, “If, to me, Dune was like Star Wars, then Dune 2 is The Empire Strikes Again, which is my favourite Star Wars movie. I believe it’s only a nice growth of all that was launched within the first one.
“What I used to be actually struck by is the sense of immersion in that world,” he mentioned. “It’s a movie that has so many distinctive photographs, so many belongings you’ve by no means seen earlier than on this film, time after time, and I used to be so struck by the element of all the things.”
Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler battle in ‘Dune: Part Two‘
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After David Lynch tailored Herbert’s Dune for his 1984 house opera, Villeneuve returned to the supply materials for his adaptation Dune (2021) and this yr’s Dune: Half Two. The primary movie took house six Oscars, with each movies incomes a mixed $1.12 billion globally.
The franchise has spawned the prequel collection Dune: Prophecy, which just lately debuted, with new episodes airing Sundays at 9pm ET/PT on HBO and streaming on Max.
Villeneuve advised Deadline this month that he plans to start filming the movie franchise’s third installment, based mostly on Herbert’s ’69 novel Dune Messiah, in late 2025 or 2026.
