Dune: Messiah wasn’t anticipated to start out taking pictures till 2026, however a brand new report claims issues may kick off a bit sooner.
Final 12 months, Dune: Half 2 (Electrical Boogaloo) shocked no person by being one of many highest grossing movies of 2024, coming in at sixth place with a field workplace gross of greater than $714. That was a rise of greater than $300 million in comparison with the primary one, so it is no shock that one other movie is on the way in which (to not point out that TV collection Dune: Prophecy that simply kinda appeared to return and go final 12 months, they cannot all be winners). However contemplating how Dune: Half 2 solely got here out a few 12 months in the past, you’d assume that one thing as massive as a 3rd movie would nonetheless be some time away from making any headway on manufacturing. Because it seems, based on Deadline, that is not true in any respect.
The report says that Dune: Messiah is now anticipated to start out taking pictures as early as June this 12 months, and never in 2026 like Denis Villeneuve beforehand mentioned. That is not really an excessive amount of of a shock, as talking to Collider earlier this month the director defined that he was shifting ahead with Messiah as his subsequent mission as a result of he was “actually moved by the way in which Half Two was obtained by cinephiles world wide, and I felt an urge for food and a want to see extra and a accountability to complete that story.”
Villeneuve has been engaged on the script for the third movie since not less than final September, the place on the time he famous that he would not think about his Dune movies to be part of a trilogy. “It was actually a pair of flicks that would be the adaptation of the primary ebook,” Villeneuve mentioned on the time. “That’s performed and that’s completed. If I do a 3rd one, which is within the writing course of, it’s not like a trilogy. It’s unusual to say that, but when I’m going again there, it’s to do one thing that feels totally different and has its personal identification.”
Dune: Messiah would not at present have a launch date, however with a a lot sooner shoot date than anticipated, you may most likely sit up for it sooner than you thought.
