When Dune: Half One ended on a breathless cliffhanger, audiences at the least knew Dune: Part Two was on the way. Half Two does one thing comparable, and whereas the percentages are good that there will be a sequel, it’s not coming instantly.
However, the film ends equally to how Frank Herbert ended his novel, and director Denis Villeneuve was very assured he needed to do the identical factor. “I used to be adamant,” the director informed io9. “I used to be like 100% sure that it was one of the best ways. I like films that finish like that, like in a powerful assertion.”
Beneath, watch and browse extra from Villeneuve’s dialogue of the ending, and browse his reply about Half Two’s tremendous secret cameo.
On the finish of Dune: Half Two, we watch Paul Atreides kill Feyd-Rautha, thereby staking his declare as the subsequent emperor of the galaxy. He then affords to marry the present emperor’s daughter, Irulan, to maintain his bloodline alive, which deeply offends Paul’s Fremen girlfriend, Chani. When Paul hears that the opposite powers within the galaxy gained’t acknowledge his declare, he goals to start out a warfare by destroying the spice fields of Arrakis. With this holy warfare hanging within the stability, the movie ends with an indignant, defiant Chani leaving Paul and heading again into the desert.
Principally, Paul has absolutely embraced his God-like future and claimed energy—however on the expense of the lady he loves, and perhaps what made her love him within the first place. It’s a down ending that leaves a lot to the creativeness, but it surely’s very near how Herbert ended his guide and that’s why Villeneuve determined to finish the film that approach too. Right here’s our dialogue.
Germain Lussier, io9: Herbert’s guide ends slightly abruptly and also you lean into that and do it the identical approach. Hopefully, fingers crossed, we’ll get to see Dune Messiah sooner or later—however simply in case that doesn’t occur, was there ever any thought to including a bit extra closure right here on the finish of Half Two?
Denis Villeneuve: No, it was at all times like that. It was at all times like that to be able to convey this concept dwelling. The thought [of] that factor that turns into uncontrolled. That betrayal and that tragedy. I needed to end there. And for that I used to be adamant. I used to be like 100% sure that it was one of the best ways. I like films that finish like that, like in a powerful assertion.
io9: And the ultimate shot of Chani, how did you give you that?
Villeneuve: Oh, within the screenwriting. It’s one thing that I found out early and as I used to be writing the screenplay—I co-wrote this screenplay with Jon Spaiths after all—however that is an concept that I introduced and I used to be like 100%. It was one of the best ways to complete the film.
The opposite huge spoiler in Dune: Half Two is that the position of Paul’s as-yet unborn sister, Alia, is performed by Anya Taylor-Pleasure. She solely seems briefly in a single scene, in one among Paul’s future visions, however we needed to ask Villeneuve about it and he was very cautious.
io9: Earlier than the film a good friend and I had been discussing Alia and questioning how she was going to suit into this. So it was very thrilling to see Anya Taylor-Pleasure pop up shortly there. I wish to understand how that occurred after which additionally, in case you do get to make Messiah, would she play that position? As a result of ages are slightly off.
Villeneuve: It’s an concept that I had behind my thoughts as I used to be writing and it’s an concept that—I had met her as I used to be casting—I had her in thoughts for that position. And it’s one thing that I like. It was like, projecting concepts of what Dune Messiah may very well be. And it’s very thrilling for me.
io9: Okay, however would she be in that then?
Villeneuve: I can not say.
Learn the rest of our interview with Denis Villeneuve here and take a look at Dune: Half Two, now in theaters. (Hopefully, you already did that although since we simply talked spoilers.)
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