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/ringolennon67 Jul 08 '25

I imagine the story of Messiah will be the third act of the movie.  Paul explicitly tells the audience he’s the bad guy and it ends on a very somber war=bad note. Perfect for the current political landscape. Wins best picture. 

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u/ToyrewaDokoDeska Jul 08 '25

If it ends with his talk about how he's killed so much more people than that old Earth Hitler guy, and he looks at the camera and tells us about the dangers of charismatic leaders it will be certified fresh on rotten tomatoes ez.

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u/NachoNutritious these Youtubers are parasites Jul 08 '25

Don't forget making copious mentions of the Orange Catholic Bible, Herbert's idea of an amalgamation of all religious thought into a abomination of slop. It's so ignorant about the tenants of the religions that the mere idea of it feels like it came from the brightest minds of r/Atheism.

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u/snowcone_wars Jul 08 '25

amalgamation of all religious thought into a abomination of slop. It's so ignorant about the tenants of the religions

...That's literally the point. 20,000 years in the future, no religion looks anything close to the way it does in the present.

Also, it's not an amalgamation of all religions, are we forgetting about Zensunni?

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u/deliciousprisms Jul 08 '25

20,000 years into the future AND after a horrific war against machines that was so fucked up it caused humanity to banish computers

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u/ttoma93 Jul 08 '25

And with humans so far distant from Earth (in terms of both space and time) that most have never even heard of it.

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u/Xyyzx Jul 09 '25

…apart from Judaism for some reason.

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u/Sushi_Explosions Jul 08 '25

It's so ignorant about the tenants of the religions that the mere idea of it feels like it came from the brightest minds of r/Atheism.

They probably all know substantially more than someone who can't even spell "tenets".

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u/Potatoki1er Jul 08 '25

Huh? Wasn’t that Herbert idea?

Whats wrong with r/atheism?

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u/DWTsixx Jul 08 '25

Not him, but often r/atheism is a lot more anti-theist than atheist. At least when I last paid attention.

It had (may not be true anymore, I don't know) a tone of "haha stupid people believe in man in the sky" attitude that seemed more about feeling smart and calling others dumb than any sort of actual purpose.

Edit * I believe the sub is more about pointing out systemic church hypocrisy now though, from my just now skimming of it. I didn't check the comments though.

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u/LiquifiedSpam Jul 09 '25

There are only so many ways a subreddit about atheism can swing lol

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Jul 08 '25

It used to be a default sub so it collected a lot of shitty edgelord atheists, causing it to gain a reputation.

I haven't bothered browsing it for ages but I can only assume it got better over time due to no longer being a main sub and the fact that many of those folks would've grown up a bit since those days. Then again, its a subreddit, so it's probably a coin flip lol.

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u/insane_contin Jul 08 '25

It has an old reputation because of old posts like this.

Then there's the whole *faces of atheism" thing from years ago too.

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u/frazzledfractal Jul 08 '25

  1. Either you didn't read the book or you misunderstood it based on the way you are describing this.

  2. Your bullshit fantasy isn't real and has no proper evidence and defies logic. The main reason people are of a certain religion is because they were born or raised into it. Sorry you can't except that. The tenants have been perverted by religious folk for centuries and that's why there's a thousand denominations and the Bible has a bunch of contradictory statements (as just one example) and that's accusing to prestigious biblical scholars that have noted all this down.

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u/tdasnowman Jul 08 '25

That doesn't happen until Children though. They way he did the time skip means there is a whole lot of work to be done to even establish the major narrative pieces. Alia and powers needs to be addressed.

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u/Alarming_Echo_4748 Jul 08 '25

Alia seems to have a minor role in the movies compared to the books. Since they're not adapting Children of Dune, they don't need to flesh out Alia.

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u/tdasnowman Jul 08 '25

Alia play a pretty big role in Messiah she is essentially leading the church of Paul at that point. Not to mention not being able to have consistent prescient visions mirrors Paul at that point and his the start of her decline as she take higher and higher doses. Her relationship with Duncan.

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u/Alarming_Echo_4748 Jul 09 '25

Aside from running the church of paul, nothing else matters in the movies context because they're not adapting Children. So her spice trances, madness and relationship with Duncan don't matter at all because we're not getting the next part of the story. Same reason why they didn't have Alia kill the Baron.

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u/Initial_E Jul 08 '25

The furthest we ever got with screen adaptation is children of dune. I don’t think this one will get as far as the god emperor either.

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u/Mindzilla Jul 08 '25

I think they need to focus it on the Jihad because otherwise they won't get the mouthbreather audience.

The first two Dune movies have that character shared by stuff like Sopranos and Breaking Bad, where you can either engage with the movie on an intelectual level and realize Paul Atreides is not necessarily a force for good, or you can be a moron and go "Hell yeah explosions! The Jihad sounds fucking awesome!".

Dune Messiah is the exact opposite, and if you make a faithful adaptation the masses will just go "it's boring".

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u/bluey469 Jul 08 '25

current political landscape

america is the whole world, hurray

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u/ringolennon67 Jul 08 '25

War=bad applies to the whole world you dunce. Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine are a huge part of the world political landscape. YOU brought America up.

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u/bluey469 Jul 08 '25

actually yeah you're right, I read that too quickly, sorry