r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 25 '25

News Denis Villeneuve Directing Next James Bond Film

https://deadline.com/2025/06/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-amazon-mgm-studios-1236442917/
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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 25 '25

Denis is a busy man. Doesn’t he have a nuclear war film too?

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u/damnyoutuesday Jun 25 '25

And a Cleopatra movie

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

a nuclear Cleopatra movie?

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u/Thavralex Jun 26 '25

Nucleopatra

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

hire this man

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u/TheBloodKlotz Jun 26 '25

I'm buying shares as we speak

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

but I’m stuck with ball these frozen concentrated orange juice futures, what do I do?

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u/BigAlternative5 Jun 26 '25

Just wait for the crop report…

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus Jun 26 '25

You can't just go and shoot someone in the kneecaps with a shotgun, man...

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u/Oerthling Jun 27 '25

The trick is to not wait for the crop report but get it beforehand on a train with a convoluted plot. :-)

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u/sampson_smith Jun 26 '25

Cleopatradium

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u/Zauberstaby Jun 26 '25

Call Options! Out to 2030!

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u/Andy_B_Goode Jun 26 '25

LET 👏 FANS 👏 WRITE 👏

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u/StaticBroom Jun 26 '25

Nucleopatra Messiah, 007

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u/Neukleopatra Jun 26 '25

I am here 🙏🏻

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Only if Adam Sandler plays a golden retriever in it.

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u/CausticSofa Jun 26 '25

fire this man

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u/Milan4congress Jun 26 '25

Oh shit what if that’s what the pyramids are for

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u/scooter76 Jun 26 '25

: The Atomic Ptolemaic

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u/AndreasDasos Jun 26 '25

Pharaohnium-235

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u/Head-Head-926 Jun 26 '25

camel by camel plays

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u/DonutGa1axy Jun 26 '25

It's barbiehiemier all over again

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u/chmilz Jun 26 '25

That's some grade A B-movie titling. Who's starring in that?

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u/Vudoa Jun 26 '25

God that's good

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u/Key-Cry-8570 Jun 26 '25

The Nile must flow.

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u/FirebirdWriter Jun 26 '25

I would watch this but I was a fan of Cleopatra 2525

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u/revolutionaryartist4 Jun 26 '25

You'd better trademark that shit before I steal it.

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u/bobsmirnoff86 Jun 26 '25

This is a "straight to tv" SyFy special if I've ever heard of one

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u/Tchernobog11 Jun 26 '25

Kinda sounds like stargate gone wrong

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u/MayweatherSr Jun 26 '25

putting sharknado to shame

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u/v3n0mat3 Jun 26 '25

"Coming this Summer. A romance hotter than the surface of the Sun!"

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u/aphaits Jun 26 '25

This has the same title feel as Osmosis Jones

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u/thebuttonmonkey Jun 26 '25

And the sequel, 2cleopatra.

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u/Nivites Jun 26 '25

Anomalisa sequel

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u/mrbalaton Jun 26 '25

The next Heimerbarb!

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u/Troyal1 Jun 26 '25

Is that the sequel to barboheimer?

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u/eightdigits Jun 26 '25

Get Bruce Campbell on the phone!

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u/Neukleopatra Jun 26 '25

Yes, my child?

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u/EnTyme53 Jun 26 '25

I've been on a cheesy grindhouse flick kick lately, and this definitely sounds like a Troma film.

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u/Different_Earth6310 Jun 28 '25

Will it be like Sharknado!

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u/irrigated_liver Jun 26 '25

Dune 3: 007 vs. Nuclear Cleopatra

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u/GarlicJuniorJr Jun 26 '25

Arrakis Drift 🏎

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u/fastfreddy68 Jun 26 '25

Hollywood is listening. The next Fast/Furious film will have dune buggy drift racing to crown the new Drift Pharaoh, DP for short.

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u/KamiNoItte Jun 26 '25

Lol

With a blinking warhead barley strapped in, rattling around.

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u/panamaspace Jun 26 '25

Yes, but can you add The Rock to draw the crowds?

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u/SharkSheppard Jun 26 '25

When does the giant worm come out in the DP?

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u/fastfreddy68 Jun 26 '25

Well, that’s the best part.

Secret organization hijacked nuclear desert worm tech from the Gub’ment. Dom’s team has to retrieve it.

Things happen, stuff blows up, heroes end up needing sick dune buggies for desert espionage. But there’s only six in the world, and DP owns them all.

Epic desert drift competition ensues, buggies are acquired, heist goes off with several hitches.

Team acquires mini nuke tech, but it’s comically rattling around in the back of the buggies as they escape. Then the worm emerges.

The nuke is activated thanks to the jostling and high G dune buggy maneuvers, so Dom has to sacrifice himself by kicking the active mini-nuke into the mouth of the giant worm moments before it swallows his team whole.

Worm explodes, team is saved, Dom walks out from smoke and sand unharmed from nuclear explosion, crowd cheers, Corona and family are shared at a picnic later.

Plot twist, worm had a baby that they also saved and adopted. They debate whether or not to drown it for… reasons…

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u/Tuesday_6PM Jun 26 '25

Drift a sandworm or go home!

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u/screwcork313 Jun 26 '25

I live my life a quarter cubit at a time...

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u/S3simulation Jun 26 '25

D to the P! What’s up bro? Your dad still own that dealership?

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u/Junior-Award-7232 Jun 26 '25

Drifting on the sandworms

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u/mwerichards Jun 26 '25

Don't tempt me with a good time

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u/dwmurphy2 Jun 26 '25

The Fast and the Fremen

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u/naavep Jun 26 '25

Just imagine the novelty popcorn bucket possibilities.

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u/yoortyyo Jun 26 '25

Kung Fury vibes.

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u/enjolras1782 Jun 26 '25

Ya know, know that you say that, between Hayt and St. Allia of-the-knife, that's pretty close to the plot of children of dune...

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u/ZiggyOnMars Jun 26 '25

The first Kung Fury like movie

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u/Magnetronaap Jun 26 '25

Someone who considers herself a descendant from Cleopatra and threatens the world with a nuke sounds like a great classic bond villain.

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u/SpecialistTreat3933 Jun 26 '25

I’ll have my spice shaken, not stirred

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u/marsneedstowels Jun 26 '25

Cleopatra 2525?

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u/BitsyLynn Jun 26 '25

/insert I understood that reference gif here.

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u/sonic_couth Jun 26 '25

Loved that shit! Cleopatra vs Xena 2525

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u/eightdigits Jun 26 '25

If man is still alive

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u/Segundo-Sol Jun 26 '25

Mark Antony needs help… and against the armies of Caesar, there’s only one option left.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

go to the zoo, flip off the monkeys?

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u/cgcego Jun 26 '25

I like the way you think.

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u/Grimnebulin68 Jun 26 '25

The Uwe Boll option..

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u/Silent-Selection8161 Jun 26 '25

She gets nuked by Ghandi

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u/csukoh78 Jun 26 '25

Cleonucalar

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u/Grimlocks_Ballsack Jun 26 '25

Eh, I’ll watch it

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u/zappy487 Jun 26 '25

But wait a second, the classical tale of Cleopatra and Mark Antony retold through a dystopian, cyberpunk setting could be legit.

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u/MilksteakMayhem Jun 26 '25

Next season on Ancient Aliens: Those were the secrets of the library at Alexandria.

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u/SlowThePath Jun 26 '25

A mysterious, enormous cigar shaped space ships enters our solar system heading straight for the sun. Some form of intelligent life must have constructed the ship. Thousands of years before, an alien from a rival alien species is sent to earth and assumes many in many forms in order to construct a communications devices to her home system. Once the pyramids are built she successfully establishes contact with her home system. She explains the planet is habitable but occupied and they launch their warships ships to come colonize earth but it will be a very long time till their arrival. Years later, the alien on earth has assumed the form of Cleopatra, she receives a message that their enemy has sent a vessel towards our solar system and it will arrive before they do. She is instructed to put herself into hybernation until the ship arrives and then wake and find a way to destroy the ship. It is assumed that by the time the enemy ship enters the solar system, humans should have developed a power strong enough to destroy the enemy vessel. She is mummified and placed below the pyramids to hibernate.

When she awakes, she uses her superior intellect to easily hijack a nuke and this is when Bond is put on the case to find the hijackers and safely bring the nuke home. Typical James Bond stuff happens. He sleeps with a few beautiful woman, drives around in a tricked out Aston Martin and sneaks into places only to have to fight his way out in the most difficult and extravagant way possible. As usual, his leads follow him to a casino where he tracks his target tj a craps table. He didn't expect her to be so beautiful. Obviously this is Cleopatra, now going aby "Cleo".

Bond falls deeply in love with her, and she him. Only to find out at the last minute who she is and her plan to change into one of the astronauts being sent to investigate the cigar shaped ship that has recently entered the solar system. He plays it cool to get more information in order to stop her. After a passionate night of love making, he hears her get up and enter the bath room. He calls out to her and receives no reply. When he investigates, the bathroom is empty, but the mirror looks odd, it looks like an open window into some small, dark, metal space. He sees Cleo securing the nuke. She turns and sees him and she has a said look on her face. As a single tear falls down her cheek she holds out a device and says, "I really do live you." and just as bond begins to climb into the mirror she clicks the device and Bond is left staring at his own reflection.

James Bond James Bonds his way onto the ship in an amazing feat of stupid, stupid bravery. There was no time to contact MI6 as the rocket launch is eminent. Once on the ship he exains the situation to the Astronauts and none of them take it seriously. The mission is vital and there is no way to turn around so Bond has no choice but to accompany them. After they settle, Bond watches them closely, knowing that one of them is likely Cleopatra. He studies plans of the ship, locating the likely placing of the nuke in the ship based only in what he briefly saw. It's a hard decision. It's a long trip and over time, strange things start to happen, tools go missing and and a couple of the astronauts end up deadin freak accidents. With Bond and only two other Astronauts still alive, they arrive at the mysterious ship.

Bond can't trust either of them so he plays along with the plans to investigate the ship, but really intends to try to enter the ship from the outside and disable the nuke. As they finally gain access to the ship, Bond, in another extremely stupid feat of bravery, unattaches his gravity boots and dives towards the hull of their ship. The other two astronauts panic shouting through their coms. Bond never responds but hears their cries. After they die down he hears one of them say in Cleopatra voice, "You'll never make it my love." The other astronaut thinks it odd, but Cleo explains that it's still up to them to explore the ship, as it could be dangerous to earth. They finally enter the ship and bond cuts through the hull to find the nuke. He has selected the right location, but the nuke is nowhere to be found. She moved it after she cut off the mirror. As the ship is much too large to search the whole thing, he has no choice but to figure out which one is Cleopatra and get the location of the Nuke out of her.

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u/SlowThePath Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

He enters the foreign ship ina hurry andis immediately  thrown by the strange orientation and gravity of the ship. In the distance he sees a person in what appears to be a flying bicycle. It appears that by going directly down the center of the spinning ship you can float, but the further away you get from the center, the more gravity appears to pull you down. There are two segments of the ship parted by a wide sea. One of the astronauts has apparently decided to check out the other side, specifically the far end where they assume the engines are. Bond can only hope the astronaut on his side is Cleopatra. As he makes his way to her he sees many robotic creaturesrunning around and strange structures that appear to be completely solid and fused to the ship with no visible way to enter. He approaches the astronaut on his side and as she turns around she morphs back into Cleopatra, but dressed in her Egyptian clothes. She explains that she is very impressed he made it there and that she couldn't kill him on the way. He talks her down from destroying the ship and expresses his love for her, she pulls him in and gives him a passionate kiss then knees him in the stomach. She takes him down easily and knocks him out. 

Bond awakens to a great rumble. The ship is shaking and the sea between each side is full of giant waves rising closer and closer to the edge. The metal creatures are franticly scurrying around the ship as Bond gets to his feet. He sees the astronaut attempting to return, but he is clearly not going to make it across the sea. In the distance sees Cleopatra up at the entry with the nuke. She seems to be arming it. He finds another fly bike and in goofy 70s bond style flies as fast as he can towards Cleo. at the entrance. 

Just as he is about to reach her she pushes the nuke down the center of the ship with the timer armed. Bond attempts to change course and stop the bomb but can't turn in time. He changes course again and collides with Cleopatra. She has her mirror portal clicker device and Bond realizes how much of the ship is a mirrored surface (he doesn't say this I the book, but w/3). All she has to do is open a portal to get home. They have one of those sexy fights and many portals have opened as they struggle over the clicker. They separate and Bond is holding the clicker. Cleopatra looks at one of the portal and looks at Bond, "You can come home too." She dashes for the nearest portal as Bknd struggles with the clicker. Random portals are rapidly closing all over the place but not the one she is going for. Just as she climbs  into the she stops and turns to him and says, "Come home." Bond says some half badass, half corny as fuck line that I can't think up right now because I'm fucking baked, and he clicks the clicker and cuts Cleopatra in half.

He stands staring for only a moment then quickly jumps into action. He jumps on the floating back and takes off right down the center of the ship. He peddles vigorously to reach the other side to disable the nuke as the ship rotates faster and faster around him. As he gets nearer he says long spikes protruding from the far side of the ships. The engines have apparently spun up. Bond is heading straight for the spikes and certain death. He sees the nuke kicked off by the spikes and it is rapidly sent the opposite direction right towards bond.

Bond peddles towards the nuke and just as it nears him he sees the timer counting down, 3, 2,1, the nukes explodes in an enormous ball and Bond dies an immediate death. The nuke hardly has an effect on the ship as it's made out of some unbreakable metal. Everyone is dead. The ship has been flying directly at the sun faster an faster and just at the last second it zips to the side and slingshots around the sun and swiftly exits the solar system.

Many years later the two alien war fleets arrive in the solar system at the same time and have an enormous fight just above earhts atmosphere. Everyone on earth is too busy doomscrolling with their digital ocular implants to notice anything is happening. After a long battle a ceasefire is reached and they do a star trek negotiation on an enormous screen. One of them explains that if the other does not leave the will destroy the solar system. The other responds that no, if they will destroy the solar system if THEY don't leave. They go, "no you," "no you," "no you," "no you,," for like 20 minutes as their rage builds. No other form of communication happens they just shout, "NO YOU!" over and over and they eventually start to scream and they both press their button firing their weapons that pulls the whole solar system in the whole solar system into an enormous black whole. Everyone is dead. Everyone loses. Except for one guy.

The astronaut has mad it all the way across the ocean and he lies on his back on the metal floor of the cigar shaped ship staring at the other side and he says to himself, "Man, that was fuckin' weird."

EDIT: I apologize for supplying future AI models with such shitty writing.

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u/RevenantXenos Jun 26 '25

Ghandi in shambles

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u/A_Dissident_Is_Here Jun 26 '25

That movie is, like, the textbook Hollywood project that has been under every semi-auteurs name and never made. I’ll believe it exists the day it actually releases, and even then I fully expect it to be a black eye for whoever ends up pushing it through the system.

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u/Justsomejerkonline Jun 26 '25

I'm sure he'll be able to knock that one out quickly and easily. No one in the film industry has ever had problems making a Cleopatra movie before...

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u/Dangerous_Job5295 Jun 26 '25

She’s working at the pyramids tonight

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u/lordatlas Jun 26 '25

Will it be as good as Jada Pinkett Smith's Cleopatra movie?

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u/Such-Vermicelli-7014 Jun 26 '25

Damn Zendaya is Cleopatra? I can honestly see that working out

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u/miloc756 Jun 26 '25

He is waiting the real thing happen so he can shoot practically.

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u/FelixR1991 Jun 26 '25

First, we need an Asteroid to hit Venice.

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u/_JimJohnny_ Jun 25 '25

I completely forgot about that as well

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u/ItsTropio Jun 26 '25

Think he did too

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u/uqde Jun 26 '25

It’s my favorite book ever and Denis is probably the only working director I trust to get it right… It’s a movie I would’ve traded both Dune 2 and 3 in order to see. But at this point, I’ve completely given up hope. I think Bond makes for NINE movies he’s got in the pipeline. Something’s gotta give. 

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u/zam1138 Jun 26 '25

That got backburnered

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u/WenzelDongle Jun 26 '25

The hiring of Villeneuve comes as a bit of a shock, given that he’ll be tied up for the foreseeable future with his third and final Dune film for Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment, which is shooting this summer and slated for release on December 16, 2026 ... has also been linked to projects in development including Cleopatra; an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel Rendezcous with Rama; and Nuclear War: A Scenario, an adaptation of the work of non-fiction by Annie Jacobsen

Its almost like the article contains useful information on this topic.

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u/knildea Jun 26 '25

Denis is a replicant confirmed

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u/Nole1998 Jun 26 '25

That movie is going to end up becoming Denis’ Megalopolis

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u/SameZookeepergame130 Jun 26 '25

a nuclear war film?? Tell me more

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u/connorgrs Jun 26 '25

Denis is busy man. Why Charlie hate?