Denis Villeneuve changes ops director for Dune 3, and the Prophecy series will have a season 2

Double news in the Dune universe at the end of the year.

With more than $700 million in revenue, Dune 2 will finish in the top 5 of 2024, finally doubled by Vice Versa 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Despicable Me 4 and Moana 2. The blockbuster of Denis Villeneuveacclaimed upon its release, will indeed have a sequel inspired by The Messiah of Dunebut while waiting for news, it is on Max that the story taken from the universe of Frank Herbert and his son Brian develops, via the series Prophecy.

Associated with HBO, Warner Bros. has just officially announced its season 2, even before the broadcast of its finale this weekend. With a video from Valya Harkonen (Emily Watson), the studio confirms that “the saga will continue”. Remember that it takes place more than 10,000 years before the action of the films.

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At the same time, and while Denis Villeneuve confirmed last September that Dune: Messiah would be his last production within this saga, Hollywood reporter Jeff Sneider reveals that for this end of the trilogy, the Canadian director would have to change cinematographer. Until now, Creig Frasier was in charge of the film photography. Dunebut he would be too busy making The Batman: Part IIby Matt Reeves, for the same studio. It should be replaced by Linus Sandgren for this third opus. An equally talented artist: he notably collaborated with Damien Chazelle on La La Land And Babylonand also lit the latest James Bond, Dying can wait.

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Dune: Messiah is due out in theaters on December 18, 2026. Its filming dates have not been officially announced, but knowing that the sequel to The Batman must be filmed next summer, if its cinematographer cannot participate in both productions at the same time, this certainly means that the production of these two projects will coincide… Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Anya Taylor-Joy, Javier Bardem and all the other key players from the first parts should logically come back.

Finally, let us point out that the filmmaker is aware of the task that awaits him on Dune 3, the original story radically changing its “hero”Paul Atreides, portrayed as a powerful dictator in the novels. Not to mention that this sequel should have its share of supernatural sequences…”What is certain is that we have not finished seeing the glasses of sand”the director laughed last October, before adding: “You know, these films take an extremely long time, it's better not to put forward dates…“

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