Dune Messiah serves as the basis for the story of Dune 3

Denis Villeneuve is already working on the script for Dune 3, a film based on Dune Messiah.

Denis Villeneuve is excited about Dune 3.

In an interview with The New York Times, Villeneuve was asked how development on Dune 3 was going, and the filmmaker said he was excited about the third installment in the franchise, currently writing the script and advancing one of the titles. The focus of the project.

“That anger[that Zendaya’s character feels at the end of Dune 2]is huge. I don’t want to say what I’m going to do with the third film. I know exactly what to do. I am writing now. But there’s a lot of firepower there and I’m excited about this decision.

While Villeneuve has hinted that the third film will be based on Dune’s Messiah, what Chaney said in this interview about the role contradicts what was said in the book. In the year The 1969 novel begins 12 years after the events of the previous episode, when Chaney becomes the concubine of Paul Atreus and marries Princess Irulan to free Arakis.

It’s still unclear whether the director will continue to skip that time or simply make changes. The end of the second part presents a departure from the earlier novel, especially in the fact that Chani is betrayed by Paul’s decision to marry Irula when she leaves for the desert on a sandworm. In the book, Paul and Lady Jessica are able to convince our hero to accept the political agreement as he promises to be faithful to her.