How Many Dune Movies Will There Be? Every Possible Sequel & Spinoff
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is due to release in 2023, and there’s already the tease that there may be more Dune sequels and spinoffs to come afterward. Adapting Frank Herbert’s original novel, Villeneuve brought Dune to life with breathtaking cinematography, giving tantalizing hints at the vastness of the Dune universe and the inevitable future of House Atreides. With so much story to explore, there are plenty of directions in which future Dune movies could be taken.
The Dune saga is epic in the truest sense of the word. After Frank Herbert’s original Dune novel in 1965, there are currently 26 novels in the Dune series, with a 27th, Dune: The Heir of Caladan, due to be released in 2022. Additionally, there are 11 short stories, 7 comic book stories, and 8 related books like The Dune Encyclopedia and Songs of Muad’dib. Following Frank Herbert’s original six novels, his vision has been continued by his son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson, known for his work writing spin-off novels for Star Wars and Starcraft, among others properties. With such a wealth of source material to choose from, there is a rich galaxy of storytelling that could be adapted for future movies.
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The characters ofDune live in such a vast world that it’s long been viewed as a huge challenge to adapt. Villeneuve got around this by only using half of Frank Herbert's lengthy novel for his 2021 Dune adaption, making the next film in the series not a sequel but a direct continuation of the same story, in a similar way to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill or Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War. Screenwriter Jon Spaihts has hinted that Dune: Part Two will set the foundations
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