DUNE MESSIAH - How Denis Villeneuve Will Adapt The Big Moments

Hope you enjoy my video talking about some of the moments, characters and storytelling elements of Dune Messiah. How do you think Denis Villeneuve will adapt certain elements?

Alia will absolutely open the film with a monologue, not Paul.

cant wait to see paul pointing and directing people and actually seeing the awe on their face whilst his eyes are gone

When Paul said "I don't want to be Dune Messiah anymore" as he walks off into the desert while Guts' theme is playing I cried

I personally think a fade to black as Paul walks off into the desert is a perfect note to end the series on

About Edric, did we forget Villeneuve directed Arrival? He's no stranger to strane alien creatures behind glass. It'll be a spectacle.

i really hope Denis doesn’t hold back on the war itself. i want to see the bloodshed that comes from Paul’s decisions. i also would like to the the fremen being extremely brutal. they didn’t just kill soldiers who stood in their way, they killed men women and children, made entire planets uninhabitable with atomics. they literally became space Nazis with Paul as their Hitler and i want to see that. also having Paul capture a sandworm while blind would be so cool i hope they have him do that. and also Paul’s Palace. It’s described in the books as being so big that entire cities could have fit within the walls. that the doors to just the throne room could have fit a cathedral. that once in the throne room the ceilings were so high you could barely make them out and they seemed to go up for eternity. really cool visuals i know the VFX team can pull off.

What if we already got a sneak peak with the stone burner could look like, when Paul’s vision of Chani looking at the bomb is the clue. Paul’s vision is the key to everything.

I will be very curious to see several things: 1. The “stoneburner” scene and how they depict that 2. Duncan Idaho as a Ghola - will it be Mamoa? And the eyes? 3. How they introduce the face dancers and Bene Tleilax 4. How they reconcile between Paul & Chani to setup for Leto II & Ghanima 5. How they show the navigators Should be good!

I think Paul turning Arrakis into a paradise is also framed as a tragedy in Messiah. "Fremen with mud on their shoes." is a line encapsulating that in leading them to conquest he has destroyed the concepts they hold sacred. Water is toxic to Shai Hulud, the only god they pray to.

I definitely think the 1st act will be heavily padded with scenes depicting the war and its atrocities. It's kind of needed to add a sense of urgency and stakes. I could see either Paul or Alia (or even Irulan) narrating much of this.

I think the narration in part 3 will be done by Alia. The same way he introduced Irulan in part 2. One different important woman character for each film

the ending of the book(messiah) is very calm and quiet, blue-grey night sky. whispery wind of the desert. that’s all you feel and hear when reading that ending… really hope hans zimmer and villeneuve grasp that ending enough to see that, and fully realize the juxtaposition between the endings of the story of dune vs messiah. the bombastic score worked well for the ending of a dune - book 1 adaptation, but in a messiah adaptation, whether it ends up being paul walking off into the desert, irulan caring for the children, or something more accurate to the book’s ending, regardless, really hope they nail that nighttime quiet ending that the book evokes so enchantingly.

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I really hope that Cillian Murphy gets cast as a Tleilax

4:35 I totally agree with your theory, I think the possibility of show at least some of the holy war would really add some action to Messiah which leads me to my own theory that Denis isn’t going to call it Dune: Messiah but instead I think he will officially call it Dune Part 3 (I know it sounds silly) but it would give him the freedom of picking up right where part 2 left off (then doing a time jump to go into the Messiah storyline) Denis has proved that he is a master of adapting book to film and has shown that he knows the creative liberties it make it flow best on film... I’m calling it now it will just be called Dune Part 3 ;)

What if the Holy War was shown as memories? Flashbacks on different pov's of each character involved. This would cut a lot of dialogue and focus more on the emotion of characters with their facial expressions. The way Denis did through Part One and Two.

I really wish Denis Villeneuve would (and could) go the 6–7 movie stretch of adapting Children and God Emperor, it'd go down as the most legendary film saga of all time. (expecting God Emperor to take 2 movies and Children could possibly be 1 or 2, not sure tbh.

Can we talk about how much a song of ice and fire was just medieval Dune? The atreides were made the starks with the stark children embodying different aspects from the dune books. Jon’s story following Paul’s following his father’s death. Bran basically becoming the kwisatz haderach to lead the kingdom. Both being huge subversions to the classic fantasy story.

Imagine they roll credits through Paul walking off into the desert until he disappears over the horizon