1. "I think the HBO Max streaming release will help the sequel do numbers" In response to Reply # 0
A lot of people that may not have spent money to see it in the theater got to see it on HBO max and probably enjoyed it enough and are invested enough to go see the part 2 in theaters. Which would be great if part 2 does enough numbers to justify them green lighting Children and Messiah.
3. "I agree that people will probably hate Messiah" In response to Reply # 2
Children, they could probably pull off and tweak it enough that people would hate it.
I am not sure how you even approach Messiah to make it watchable, much less likable but perhaps Dennis could pull it off and maybe just make his own version of Messiah that onky shares a name/title but a totally different story.
it's the perfect ending as well. Villeneuve even said he wanted to film three Dune movies, because what happens in Messiah is vital to Paul's entire arc.
Children of Dune though...god no. end it before we get there.
>A lot of people that may not have spent money to see it in >the theater got to see it on HBO max and probably enjoyed it >enough and are invested enough to go see the part 2 in >theaters.
4. "They probably had already greenlit it internally and this was" In response to Reply # 0
just the public announcement because some reviewers were wondering if a sequel would get made (and some of the general public were confused because they missed the "Part I" at the beginning.)
You dont put Part I unless you know you're making a Part II. Putting Part I also allows some of the reviewers to ease up because its not really a stand-alone film.
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I enjoyed some aspects of the first one, but it ended as soon as it seemed it was going to really get interesting. And now we've arrived at interesting.
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This shit is going to go hard. As a hardcore Dune head, I'm so excited about the little things. Feyd looks otherworldly, and I see they're bringing the house of Fenring into it
sometimes u gotta leave ur inner nigger in the bank vault. - desus
17. "Can he go back Blade Runner?" In response to Reply # 0 Thu May-18-23 10:41 AM by javi222
I love everything that is going on with Dune… but damn, he gave us Blade Runner 2049 and left us hanging.. I understand why, but now with the success of Dune…
20. "I don't think Blade Runner is happening for another 25 years again." In response to Reply # 17
Maybe it's been building some "cult" status on streaming but the studio was pretty loudly calling that a flop from what I remember and I doubt they let him do something with a "big IP" like that that's closer to the scale of Enemy or Prisoners either.
Even Denis is quick to thank Arrival for allowing him to do Dune after disappointing the shareholders so thoroughly. The only way he gets another crack at that world, assuming he even wants to, is Dune 2 being bigger than Endgame or some shit.
At which point they probably demand he figure out how to convince audiences a worm-man-god is acceptable blockbuster fodder, lol.
27. "I went back and watched Blade Runner...again. " In response to Reply # 20
Someone here convinced me to give a second viewing of every Denis Villeneuve movie I had seen and I was shocked that all of them were way better than I remembered...except Bladerunner.
It had all the visuals that make his movies dope, but it's also a tough watch.
I think its a movie I will go back and watch every few years, but I do understand why it failed and I think there is actually a better movie in there with some editing and a few other different choices.
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