Denis Villeneuve did a magic trick in 2021 at the adapt a work that since David Lynch failed in his attempt had been considered unadaptable: ‘Dune’ was a hit that grossed more than $400 million worldwide, enough for Legendary and Warner Bros. to approve its sequel. Now we can see the first handheld images from Vanity Fair and reassure us that everything is still in order on Arrakis.
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Villeneuve wanted to make it clear, first of all, that This is not a sequel, but a continuation: Come on, the correct way to see it would be glued to the movie from a couple of years ago. In ‘Dune: Part 2’ we will see Paul Atreides becoming a Fremen, learning to tame a sandworm and avenge his family along with allies old and new (and enemies).
“From what I’ve seen on film sets, reading the scripts, being there and seeing the cast, I think it’s going to be better than the first one, and I love the first one“, has declared Rebecca Ferguson. She is not the only one who creates expectation with the film: Villeneuve himself has commented that “The first Dune was an appetizer and this is the main course. Part 2 has more action, it’s a much bigger epic war movie.” So much so that it was shot entirely on IMAX cameras. Almost nothing.
Of course, the fact that it is a war film has not prevented it from approach the most humane treatment of the charactersespecially those played by Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya: “I told my team, ‘The most important thing is that spark, the relationship between the two characters.’ If we don’t capture that, if we don’t have it on screen, there’s no movie. The epicenter of the story is that relationship“. On November 3 we will be able to clear up doubts about who deserves to live and die in the galaxy.
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