Villeneuve's Dune 2 Follow-Up Is Perfect For His Next Sci-Fi Miracle
Denis Villeneuve's next movie, following the critically acclaimed Dune and the much-anticipated Dune 2, will beanother adaptation perfect for the director’s talents. Villeneuve's 2021 Dune adaptation set the tone for what was to come, as he has now signed on to direct a movie based on Arthur C Clarke’s iconic Rendezvous with Rama, an interstellar hard sci-fi novel set in 2130. Plans to adapt the 1973 book have been stuck in development hell since the early 2000s, with Morgan Freeman originally attached to produce a film. Now it has finally found a steady hand with Denis Villeneuve, an accomplished director with multiple sci-fi epics under his belt.
Rendezvous with Rama documents, in great detail, mankind’s first contact with an alien spaceship. Over 30 miles in length, the titular craft is discovered passing through our solar system, prompting a nearby team of scientists to investigate the massive vessel before it continues its interstellar journey. What follows is an enigmatic voyage inside the cylindrical ship, with the human protagonists discovering unknowable alien structures while trying to better understand the mysteries of Rama and where it came from. If adapted well, Rendezvous with Rama could prove to be one of the greatest sci-fi movies set in space. An example of hard science fiction, the book foregoes a lot of character development for realistic depictions of space travel and clinical explanations of the mysteries of Rama.
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It's heady stuff, and in the hands of a less accomplished director, Rendezvous with Rama could prove unmanageable. However, Frank Herbert’s Dune is infamously dense and its lore almost impenetrable to the
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