Tag: Frank Herbert

  • Dune: Prophecy Trailer Spices Up HBO

    Dune: Prophecy Trailer Spices Up HBO

    A sandworm is coming for streaming this year. Today, HBO released a trailer for Dune: Prophecy, the upcoming prequel series to Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novels. Set 10,000 years before Dune, Dune: Prophecy reveals the origins of the Bene Gesserit, the order of women who manipulate the Empire in their quest…

  • Denis Villeneuve Will Only Do a Dune 3 if it’s Better Than 2

    Denis Villeneuve Will Only Do a Dune 3 if it’s Better Than 2

    Dune director Denis Villeneuve sat down with Empire magazine and pledged only to make a Dune Part Three if it’s better than Part Two. Dune Part Two opened to massive critical and financial success earlier this month. Check out Villeneuve’s statement here: “I did both movies back-to-back, which makes absolute sense for me. I felt that it was a…

  • REVIEW: Dune: Part Two (2024)

    REVIEW: Dune: Part Two (2024)

    Dune: Part Two hits theaters less than three years after Dune: Part One, but it feels like we’ve been waiting for this film forever. Part of that is, undoubtedly, its postponed release date, but it’s also because Dune: Part One felt like it was the first two acts of an incomplete story. But that’s the rub when…

  • Final Dune: Part Two Trailer Keeps its Beauty in Check

    Final Dune: Part Two Trailer Keeps its Beauty in Check

    We’ll have to wait till after Christmas to get a taste of spice. Warner Bros. has released a third – and, presumably, final – trailer for Dune: Part Two. The second half of the epic sci-fi adaptation from Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two finds Paul Atreides seeking revenge against the Harkonnen house as he navigates prophetic…

  • Denis Villeneuve Wants to Make a Third Dune Movie

    Denis Villeneuve Wants to Make a Third Dune Movie

    Denis Villeneuve isn’t done playing in the sands of Arrakis yet. While talking with Empire about his upcoming sequel/second half of his literary adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Villeneuve revealed that he’d like to make a third film in the Dune universe, this one based on the second book in Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi series, Dune…

  • The Marvels Won’t be Screend in IMAX Because of Dune

    The Marvels Won’t be Screend in IMAX Because of Dune

    Disney’s humiliations keep piling up. On an earnings call (a transcript of which you can read here on Fool), IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond responded to concerns about Warner Bros. delaying the release of Dune: Part Two amid the actors’ and writers’ strikes. Gelfond attempted to assuage fears by saying that it would be disastrous of…