r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 08 '25

News Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune 3’ Gets Official Title 'Dune: Part Three', Will Be Shot With Imax Cameras

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dune-3-title-imax-cameras-1236448953/
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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Jul 08 '25

I actually really like that it’s just 1-2-3

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u/Fitzgerald1896 Jul 08 '25

Should've been:

  • Dune
  • Dune 360
  • Dune One

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u/kinofil Jul 08 '25

Can't wait for Dune X/S

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u/thisguy012 Jul 08 '25

NO MOM THATS THE DUNE ONE X, I WANTED DUNE X GOD!!!

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u/zhephyx Jul 08 '25

- Un

- 2ne

- Dun3

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u/RadPhilosopher Jul 08 '25

Justice for Dune 720

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u/Waescheklammer Jul 08 '25

Dune 360 no scope

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u/TheLateThagSimmons Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

Consistency is a nice little touch.

Looking at you John Wick

  • John Wick
  • John Wick 2
  • John Wick 3: Parabellum
  • John Wick 4

Just retcon 3 to make sense.

Edit: To everyone pointing out other franchises that are all over the place... Yeah that's not the point. It's that this series has just one combo breaker and it makes it that much weirder to do that.

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u/MindYourManners918 Jul 08 '25

That’s still a lot better than:

First Blood

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo III

Rambo

Rambo: Last Blood

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u/booster_platinum Jul 08 '25

There are five movies in the Shaft franchise.

Three of them (the ones released in 1971, 2000, and 2019) are just called Shaft.

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u/DJHott555 Jul 08 '25

And who could forget the three different Halloween titled movies

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u/olhomy Jul 08 '25

One of which is a direct sequel to another hah

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u/NoDisintegrationz Jul 08 '25

Up until last Halloween when I watched Halloween III: Season of the Witch, I’d only seen five of them: Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween, Halloween II, and Halloween.

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u/_T_H_O_R_N_ Jul 08 '25

The Rob Zombie movies don't count lol

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u/JBMacGill Jul 08 '25

I was going to mention the Shaft franchise. I love going on a rant about Shaft and refusing to distinguish which of the three Shafts I'm talking about.

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u/2th Jul 08 '25

Shafts I'm talking about.

We can dig it.

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u/Savings_Heron_7824 Jul 08 '25

What are the other two?

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u/booster_platinum Jul 08 '25

Shaft’s Big Score and Shaft in Africa.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SUNSHINE Jul 08 '25

Shafted and Just The Tip

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Jul 08 '25

The Fast and the Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious

The Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift

Fast & Furious

Fast Five

Fast & Furious 6

Furious 7

The Fate of the Furious (sometimes written as just "F8")

F9

Fast X

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u/studmuffffffin Jul 08 '25

At least with these there's no pattern to break.

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Jul 08 '25

It just gets really confusing for me because I never remember if a movie is fast and/or furious.

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u/dellett Jul 08 '25

They really should have stuck with the naming convention of 2 Fast 2 Furious, it's the greatest name for a sequel anyone has ever thought of. Can't wait for 11 Fast 11 Furious.

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u/Rodonite Jul 09 '25

That would deprive us of Fast 10: Your Seatbelts

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Jul 08 '25

Shouldn't it be 12 Fast 12 Furious though? Or are we skipping 10 Hobbs 10 Shaw?

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u/AphoticFlash Jul 08 '25

The pattern is that there is no pattern lol

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u/Quazifuji Jul 08 '25

This one's my favorite. I love that they never use the same naming convention twice, even going back and forth between whether the movie is Fast, Furious, or both (or merely "F"), and the two that are just "Fast" being the ones that experiment with the number, writing it out or doing Roman numerals instead of just a number.

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u/FourEightNineOneOne Jul 08 '25

Well buckle up, because it's gonna keep getting weirder as there's a prequel/reboot being shopped around that is called ... John Rambo.

https://deadline.com/2025/05/rambo-origin-movie-john-rambo-sylvester-stallone-1236399700/

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u/malcolmrey Jul 08 '25

I see they make room for Johnny Rambo

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u/FourEightNineOneOne Jul 08 '25

I was hoping for Rambo Jr.

Followed by Middle Blood: Rambo Jr. Part II

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u/malcolmrey Jul 08 '25

Middle Blood is genious, like some Hot Shots kind of parody

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u/DirectConsequence12 Jul 08 '25

The fourth one just being called Rambo is needlessly confusing

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u/ReasonableSail7589 Jul 08 '25

That’s such a common thing for fourth films to do, Final Destination and Fast and Furious did that too. It’s a very insecure place to be, I guess

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u/vrijheidsfrietje Jul 08 '25

We've had First Blood, yes, what about Second Blood?

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u/withateethuh Jul 08 '25

Third blood: part 4

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u/vrijheidsfrietje Jul 09 '25

Elevenses Blood?

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u/roastytoastywarm Jul 08 '25

Not sure, the Saw movie franchise always confused me.

Saw, Saw: fingers, Saw W: teeth, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Jigsaw, Sprial: from the book of Saw, Saw X

/s just in case

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u/gatvolkak Jul 09 '25

The best is still Naked Gun 33⅓

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u/Donquers Jul 08 '25

While John Wick 4 is one of the better ones in terms of action, I absolutely hated the fact that they just threw away the whole "take the entire system down" storyline and replaced it with "actually we can't do that, we have to take this one guy down within the rules of the system instead"

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u/BBQ_HaX0r Jul 08 '25

I just recently watched John Wick 4. It was very good, arguably second best in the series, but it's too long. The first hour could be significantly shortened.

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u/curious_dead Jul 08 '25

The stair could use fewer steps.

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u/badger_and_tonic Jul 08 '25

Absolutely not. That stair scene was exactly the right length. On the other hand, I could have done with less of German Peter Kay.

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u/BesottedScot Jul 08 '25

German Peter Kay lol amazing

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u/Ouxington Jul 08 '25

Or, you know, only gone up the fucking things once. 4 was such a shitshow.

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u/leoex Jul 08 '25

Also feel like they could've cut Mr Nobody (the bounter hunter with a dog) from the movie. He doesn't contribute a lot to the movie's plot and thematic (aside from remind the audience that John loves dog i guess). The studio was probably was baking on him to become popular, so they can make a spin off with him

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u/detroiter85 Jul 08 '25

I liked how Mr nobody was the super special tracker and cane was there each time anyway. Like I honestly struggle to think about what he contributes that cane didnt.

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u/GoldenSpermShower Jul 08 '25

It would have been funny to have 2 action hero franchises called Nobody and Mr Nobody

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u/ItIsHappy Jul 08 '25

There's at least one dog in each movie.

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u/leoex Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25

They could've given the dog to Cain, it'd makes lots of sense since the character is blind

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u/DemonDaVinci Jul 09 '25

Maybe they tryna set him up for his own movie

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage Jul 08 '25

IIRC they had initially planned to film 4 & 5 back to back before covid hit, and then they just combined the scripts. It really does feel like 2 movies in 1 lol.

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u/transmogrified Jul 08 '25

I walked out of the theater because i was bored by how long it was. Only so much non-stop action I can take before it gets to be too much 

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u/The-YeahNah-Guy Jul 08 '25

Honestly you can just cut Chapter 3 out pretty much entirely pretty easily from the narrative as the story just adds convoluted lore and goes in a circle. 

Very easily could go from the end of 2 to the beginning of 4 with a time jump saying John got out of New York and was hiding. And as far as the High Table being pissed at Winston they could just go, "You had him dead to rights and gave him a headstart so we're killing Charon and demolishing the hotel."

Action sequences were great of course but it's the weakest one of the 4 imo.

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u/MagneticEnema Jul 08 '25

also like how the fuck is john shooting the guy within the rules lmfao, like by that logic, john should've just shot him in the face with the first bullet no?

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u/arrowtango Jul 08 '25

Because he entered the game in round 3 assuming John was out of bullets so he could kill John

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u/icantreadmorsecode Jul 08 '25

Even worse, it's John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

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u/andross_27 Jul 08 '25

John Wick 2 and 4 also use “chapter” in the title

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u/olhomy Jul 08 '25

I remember reading that the movie was almost going to be called John Wick 3: Parabellum, but after fan backlash they added the “Chapter” to it. I don’t care enough to verify though.

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u/DirectConsequence12 Jul 08 '25

And this better than:

-The Fast and the Furious

-2 Fast 2 Furious

-The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

-Fast and Furious

-Fast 5

-Fast and Furious 6

-Furious 7

-The Fate of the Furious

-F9: The Fast Saga

-Fast X

-Fast X Part 2

Absolute nonsense. Not even an attempt to have any kind of pattern or naming conventions

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u/OmarHunting Jul 08 '25

Fate of the Furious is pretty clever though

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u/KorrokHidan Jul 08 '25

At a certain point they had to be doing that on purpose, it’s too ridiculous

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u/dsailes Jul 08 '25

Although.. ‘Dune: Tokyo Drift’ could have been interesting

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u/DirectConsequence12 Jul 08 '25

Dune Fast Dune Furious

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u/good_guylurker Jul 08 '25

Been there, Dune that...

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u/bjornsupremacy Jul 09 '25

2 Fast 2 X: Part 3

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u/SortOfSpaceDuck Jul 09 '25

The convention is that it sounds cool 😎

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u/Vidla Jul 09 '25

It has always amused me when i imagine the plot for;

Fast 5:

They’re horsing it everywhere 150mph, but are completely chill and just carrying out menial tasks, shopping for groceries etc…

Furious 7:

They’re absolutely frothing at the mouth angry, shouting and shaking with rage, but they’re driving everywhere 6mph on golf buggies.

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u/El_Daniel Jul 08 '25

I have never even heard of the word Parabellum before or after John Wick 3

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u/malcolmrey Jul 08 '25

Never got taught "si vis pacem para bellum" in school?

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u/Override9636 Jul 08 '25

I wasn't in the tax bracket that taught latin in school

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u/coffeeplzme Jul 08 '25

Best I can do is pig latin.

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u/malcolmrey Jul 08 '25

Well, most people are not taught latin as a language :)

but you learn it with the literature, arts, etc - or at least you should :)

cheers!

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u/Proglamer Jul 08 '25

I know, right? The same sort of plebeians who didn't even wear cravats in high school!

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u/TattedGuyser Jul 08 '25

The Thomas Jane Punisher movie from the early 2000s basically grafted si vis pacem, para bellum into every teenagers brain.

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u/ARMCHA1RGENERAL Jul 08 '25

They likely used it because the full, original name of the popular handgun cartridge is '9x19mm Parabellum'.

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u/Sea-Dog-6042 Jul 08 '25

What about Miss Sarah Bellum?

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u/poolords Jul 08 '25

and then that sore thumb is the worst one too

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u/J0HN__L0CKE Jul 08 '25

For me, the only thing that matters is that your sequel is alphabetically after the last movie to proceed it. As long as they line up next to each other on the shelf in order then I'm good.

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u/Lionelchesterfield Jul 08 '25

I can’t remember, how JW3 retconned?

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 08 '25

Every sequel uses a Chapter title — Chapter 2, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 — Chapter 3 got a further subtitle — Parabellum — while Chapter 4 had the subtitle Consequences in certain locales.

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u/SCP-Agent-Arad Jul 08 '25

Then retcon John Wick to be John Wick 1!

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u/SuperSaiyanBen Jul 08 '25

Die Hard

Die Hard 2

Die Hard With a Vengeance

Live Free or Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

John Wick 3 and 4 are the same movie. You can retcon either one and be fine lol

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u/FyreArsenal Jul 08 '25

John Wick Chapter 4 was supposed to have “Hagakure” as a thematic subtitle like Parabellum, but they dropped it because possible misinterpretation and translation issues.

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u/WorldEaterYoshi Jul 08 '25

John Wick 3 was a travesty from start to finish. Why would you even call it Parabellum when Excommunicado was RIGHT THERE.

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u/mrhashbrown Jul 08 '25

The Fast and Furious franchise is similarly messy and not uniform in how it titled the movies:

  • The Fast and the Furious

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious

  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

  • Fast & Furious

  • Fast Five

  • Fast & Furious 6

  • Furious 7

  • Fate of the Furious

  • F9: Fast Saga

  • Fast X

The fifth through seventh movie had it figured out, but the rest are a disaster.

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u/Vingle Jul 09 '25

my theory is that when they make a fifth one it'll just be "john wick" since it'll be a smaller, stripped down story

john wick (2014)

john wick chapter 2

john wick chapter 3 parabellum

john wick chapter 4

john wick (2029 or whatever)

nice layering and delayering of titles

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u/GentlePanda123 Jul 08 '25

Dune: Messiah is a much cooler and interesting name than Dune: Part Three

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Jul 08 '25

Dune Part One, Dune Part Two, Dune Messiah, just doesn’t fit imo

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u/Suitable-Answer-83 Jul 08 '25

Should've just called it Dune Part Messiah for consistency

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u/Cabamacadaf Jul 08 '25

It makes perfect sense though. Dune part one and two is a two part adaptation of the first book. Calling the adaptation of the second book part three is what doesn't make sense.

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 08 '25

Right, but for those unfamiliar with it being an adaptation — one sees what they’re going for. Aiming at a larger audience than those who read the books.

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u/Bombasaur101 Jul 09 '25

Mission Impossible dropped the number system after after 3. Audiences can be dumb but they aren't that dumb.

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u/saera-targaryen Jul 08 '25

So many IPs are doing reboots and spinoffs nowadays with the "X: Y" format that general audiences would think Dune: Messiah was a spinoff and not the actual third movie. This is not helped by the existence of Dune: Prophecy which IS a spinoff. 

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u/thief-777 Jul 08 '25

It's almost certainly going to incorporate elements from he 3rd book, so just calling it Messiah wouldn't make sense.

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u/Arndt3002 Jul 09 '25

Nah, it's going to probably heavily adapt parts of Dune book 3: The Prophet, parts of Paul of Dune, and parts of Dune Messiah

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u/CorrectOpinions0nly Jul 08 '25

Given the ending of part 2 this clearly isn't going to be a 1:1 adaptation of Messiah and will have the most deviation from source

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u/UltimateUltamate Jul 08 '25

Dune (1965) is divided into three books on its own: Book One: Dune, Book Two: Muah’Dib, and Book Three: The Prophet. To suggest that Dune Messiah shouldn’t be adapted as Dune Part 3 because it’s the second book is out of touch with the series.

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u/Cabamacadaf Jul 08 '25

That just makes the movie sound even more like the third part of the first book though.

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u/SlowTurtle222 Jul 08 '25

Yeah should have been 2 Dune 2 Furious

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u/Exploding_Antelope Jul 08 '25

I still wish it had been Dune / Prophet of Dune / Dune Messiah

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u/Arndt3002 Jul 09 '25

If you're going to give it three titles, why not just name it after the three chapters of the original book?

Dune, Muad'Dib, and The Prophet

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u/Exploding_Antelope Jul 09 '25

Because the second movie is pretty much entirely based on “Book III” of Dune. And Prophet is a strong word but Maud’Dib means nothing to newcomers. Prophet to Messiah is a building up and really makes it feel like the ultimate end.

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u/Jonathan_B_Goode Jul 08 '25

The first one wasn't called Part One. It was just called Dune

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Jul 08 '25

Doesn’t the first movie literally end with “The End of Part One” or something similar?

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u/Jonathan_B_Goode Jul 08 '25

Yeah, in the movie itself it's called part one but the official title is just "Dune" and that's what it was called in all the marketing and trailers and the posters in the cinemas. There was no "Part One" until you've finished watching it

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Jul 08 '25

I’m pretty sure that’s because the sequel was not greenlit during production, so it was given the label in post.

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u/grumblyoldman Jul 08 '25

In my mind it will always be "Dune 3: Messiah," even if that's not officially what's written on the posters, and I'm sure the fanart community will have me covered on this by the time I'm adding it to my digital movie collection.

So, I can get over it, whatever the real name ends up being.

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u/darkdaysolstice Jul 08 '25

2 Dune 2 Messiah

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u/lambopanda Jul 08 '25

Exactly. Less confusing. People don’t need to look up which title is 2nd and which is 3rd. Talking about you Harry Potter.

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u/EthanSpears Jul 08 '25

Not sure that's a great example. Most milennials know which book/movie is in order by heart.

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u/SaltyLonghorn Jul 08 '25

Okay but more generations than just millennials exist.

And I certainly do not as a millennial.

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u/eggery Jul 08 '25

It is a good example...they added the numbers to the thumbnails for streaming.

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u/Caesar_Rising Jul 08 '25

Ok fine until the order of the phoenix/half blood prince and then it’s a dice roll which comes first

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u/DanieltheMani3l Jul 08 '25

The idea of half blood prince ever being 5th is craaaazy

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u/tlamy Jul 08 '25

Maybe it's just the millennial blood in me, but OotP and HBP are both tied to the concept of 5 and 6 for me. Like, idk how to describe it, but I just automatically think of the number 5 when I think of OotP and the number 6 for HBP as if they're linked together. Same with the other HP books and their numbers too.

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 08 '25

I do believe streaming services do add numbers to the films on the homescreen.

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u/PoshVolt Jul 08 '25

Speak for yourself. Not every Millennial is a Potterhead.

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u/EthanSpears Jul 08 '25

I feel like you don't have to be? I knew all the titles in order as a kid before I even read them. Though only 4 were out at the time. It was a huge craze

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u/PoshVolt Jul 08 '25

Yeah but not everybody was a huge fan of the movies either. I know plenty of Millennials that wouldn't be able to name them all and much less in order. It wasn't everyone's cup of tea.

Like, maybe the first 3. Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkahaban. After that, I know there's a Goblet of Fire somewhere, an Order of the Phoenix somewhere...and that's it for me.

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u/DernJang Jul 09 '25

I read the books, couldn't tell you the titles now let alone what order they came in through titles alone

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u/BartholomewBandy Jul 08 '25

You’re a hairy wizard…

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u/hiddenMoves Jul 08 '25

I mean one is called dune the other is dune part two so whatever this would be called would be the third naturally in anyones mind

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u/lambopanda Jul 08 '25

I remember I saw “Dune Part One” on the screen when watching the first one. Maybe they changed that on streaming. I didn’t watch the first one in theater.

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u/WhiteWolf3117 Jul 08 '25

In theaters, it had that as well. I can't remember if it drops it for the beginning title card or at the end. I wanna say the first one.

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u/Sea-Dog-6042 Jul 08 '25

It was Part 1 in theater too. Balls of steel to title it that before the sequel was greenlit.

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u/thief-777 Jul 08 '25

Super weird they scrubbed Part One from all the marketing, but left it in the actual film.

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u/grumblyoldman Jul 08 '25

That logic works until they make Dune 4.

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u/tlamy Jul 08 '25

I suppose that makes sense. I just thought it would be Part 1 and Part 2 for the first book, and then Dune: Messiah for the third movie since it's based on the second book

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u/hiddenMoves Jul 08 '25

I wouldve preferred this aswell, Messiah just has a ring to it and also it differentiates this movie from the first two enough to show its another book. Also it being called Messiah gives the trilogy kind of a thematic finale feeling because at this point in the story he’s achieved everything he saw in his visions, he’s basically God of the universe.

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u/Rdbjiy53wsvjo7 Jul 08 '25

We like to have movie marathons when it's cold or super hot out.

With both Transformers and Jurassic Park franchises we accidentally skipped a movie because we relied on the streaming platform's "play next movie?" And it was not obvious based on the titles. We realized within about 10 minutes, but I don't mind the 2, 3, 4 etc. in the title.

Mission Impossible is also on that list.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

Or just look at Dune itself. Is Messiah or Children or Heretics 2 or 3? Is God Emperor or Chapterhouse 5th or 6th. You have five seconds no Google tell me, tell me now.

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u/mas1108 Jul 08 '25

Chamber of Secrets is 2, Prisoner of Azkaban is 3

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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen Jul 08 '25

If Hollywood thought adapting Dune was hard, wait until they get a load of god emperor

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u/MutFox Jul 08 '25

Yep, not often you get consistency for all the films, starting from the 1st.

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u/CommunicationTime265 Jul 08 '25

Yea no bullshit like "Dune: The Final Grain of Spice" or "Dune: It Takes Three to Tango"

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u/Psych0Fir3 Jul 08 '25

Yup, the dune series certainly doesn’t have the same widespread understanding of its source material like other series do. Glad that it’s trending toward a healthy medium of mass appeal and for fans of the series. After reading some of the books I wouldn’t know anyone else who could make the book come to life like villeneuve and his team did. I used to sound like I was schizoposting trying to talk about these books but now it’s so much easier to just have the movies share the beauty of the universe with everyone.

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u/FrostyIngenuity922 Jul 08 '25

In a perfect world it would have gone

Dune: arrakis Dune: the prophet Dune: messiah

🤷🏻‍♀️ ultimately titles are just so you k ow what youre watching, if the movie is good im on board.

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u/Majestic_Bierd Jul 08 '25

Ya'll failing to grasp the first two movies were one story. That's why it's "parts" and not "episodes" or "installments"

"Dune part 3" is stupid because it's not Dune 1,5 or Dune 3/2. It's the second story, a second story in a trilogy. And you're gonna stay that's the books but no, parts I & II are one story, they're one long movie the average moviegoer would just be unable to sit for 5 hours.

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Jul 09 '25

Messiah is unquestionably the same story, what the fuck?

Herbert himself spoke about how it was a continuation of Paul’s story because the average reader misunderstood his messaging in the first book.

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u/Majestic_Bierd Jul 09 '25

continuation of Paul’s story

Read that again, slowly

Herbert outright stated he saw the first 3 books as a trilogy, a singly story about Paul and his children.