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‘Dune: Part One’ ending explained
By Josh Rottenberg
Los Angeles Times
hen Denis Villeneuve fi rst
began to consider taking
on a big-screen adaptation of
Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel
“Dune,” he knew a single fi lm
wouldn’t cut it.
The same vast scope and
richly detailed world-building that
had long drawn fi lmmakers to Her-
bert’s sweeping novel — the story
of the battle for dominion over
a desert planet and the rise of a
reluctant young messiah named
Paul Atreides — was also what
made the book so diffi cult, if not
impossible, to tackle in a conven-
tional two-hour-and-change fi lm.
Just ask David Lynch, who
disowned his ill-fated 1984 ad-
aptation of Herbert’s novel after
it fl opped at the box offi ce. Or
Alejandro Jodorowsky, who in the
1970s spent years and millions
of dollars in preproduction costs
developing his own wildly ambi-
tious “Dune” fantasia, only to have
his heart broken when it fi zzled
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Stellan Skarsgard plays Baron Harkonnen in “Dune.”
into nothing (a doomed eff ort
chronicled in the 2013 documen-
tary “Jodorowsky’s Dune”).
From the start, Villeneuve had
made clear to the fi lm’s backers,
Legendary Entertainment, that
he would only take on “Dune”
if he could break the book into
two fi lms — and with visions of a
franchise dancing in their heads,
Legendary quickly agreed.
Now, with the long-awaited
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fi rst installment in theaters and
on HBO Max, Villeneuve and
his cast and crew — along with
millions of hard-core “Dune”
fans — are waiting anxiously for
the offi cial go-ahead so they can
actually fi nish the story.
“We’re all calling each other
all the time: ‘Have you heard
anything?’” the fi lm’s production
designer, Patrice Vermette, says.
“They can’t leave us hanging.”
In a recent interview with Dead-
line, WarnerMedia strongly hinted
that a sequel will be forthcoming:
“Will we have a sequel to ‘Dune’? If
you watch the movie you see how
it ends. I think you pretty much
know the answer to that.”
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