Rumors are swirling about the future of the film franchise Dunes.
Posted yesterday at 2:15 p.m.
Jon Spaihts, who co-wrote the screenplay for the first film with Eric Roth and Quebec director Denis Villeneuve Dunes (devoted to the first half of the famous novel), revealed to the site The Playlist that the project of making a trilogy was seriously studied.
“Together, the books Dunes, Dune’s Messiah and The Children of Dune cover the lives of the characters we meet in the first novel,” the interview read. “There is a huge leap in time to be filled (between Dunes and Dune’s Messiah); the plot gets weirder and more epic as it develops. The action of Dune Messiah takes place years after the end of Dunes and yes, Denis discussed very seriously the possibility of making another film to complete the trilogy. »
We already know that Denis Villeneuve is currently in preproduction for the second part of Dunes. Filming should begin at the end of the summer; the film is expected to hit screens in October 2023.
The website vogue recalled that in an interview with CBC in August, the Quebecer had expressed his interest in adapting the book for the big screen Dune’s Messiah. “(This book) would make an extraordinary film. I always saw the possibility of doing a trilogy, but we’ll see. It represents years of work. »
A television series about the all-female order of the Bene Gesserit, present in the universe of Dunes, would also be in development at WarnerMedia. Jon Spaihts was to be part of the project, but decided to leave to devote himself to writing Dunes 2. However, he revealed that he had been commissioned by WarnerMedia to think about the various cinematographic projects that could arise from the universe imagined in the 1960s by Frank Herbert.