However, Dune Messiah is only 336 pages total, which is probably why Villeneuve is confident he could adapt it with one film. So, Part Two will adapt roughly 300 pages of the first book. Dune: Part One will cover about 500 of those pages.

Excluding the appendices and the glossary in the back, the story of the first Dune is 794 pages. The first Dune and its sequel, Dune Messiah Ryan Britt/ACEīut why would you make a trilogy out of only two books? Well, Dune Messiah is considerably shorter than Dune. “I always saw that there could be a trilogy.” “There is Dune’s second book, ‘The Messiah of Dune,’ which could make an extraordinary film,” Villeneuve said in August. In various interviews, Denis Villeneuve has repeated one sentiment many times: He wants to do a trilogy of Dune films that covers the events of Dune and Dune Messiah. The third film in this proposed trilogy adapts the second Frank Herbert Dune book: Dune Messiah. So, that’s two movies: Dune: Part One, the movie out this year, and, if everything goes as planned, Dune: Part Two, which finishes the first book. Dune: Part Two will, in theory, complete the story told in the novel Dune, which also focuses on Paul and Chani’s (Zendaya) relationship and their ascendency to becoming the ultimate power couple throughout the galaxy. The plan for Dune: Part Two will be to adapt the rest of the first book, which would (likely) include the characters of Feyd (an evil Harkonnen counterpart of Paul), Princess Irulan (a woman who Paul eventually marries for political convenience), the Emperor Shaddam IV, and Paul’s baby sister Alia Atreides, basically a super-baby born with memories and knowledge beyond her years. If you haven’t read the book or seen the movie, the most spoiler-free way to say this is: The film will end as Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) takes his place among the Fremen people of Arrakis. Barcroft Media/Barcroft Media/Getty Imagesĭune: Part One will take viewers roughly halfway through the first novel by Frank Herbert. Timothee Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve at the Venice premiere of Dune: Part One.

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