When Dune : Part Oneended on a breathless cliffhanger , audience at least knewDune : Part Two was on the room . Part Two does something standardised , and while the odds are good thatthere will be a sequel , it ’s not amount instantly .
Nevertheless , the motion picture ends similarly to how Frank Herbert ended his novel , and director Denis Villeneuve was very confident he had to do the same affair . “ I was adamant , ” the director told io9 . “ I was like 100 % sure that it was the best way . I love movies that end like that , like in a strong statement . ”
Below , observe and learn more from Villeneuve ’s discussion of the ending , and read his answer about Part Two ’s super mystical cameo .
The director and his star: Villeneuve and Timothée Chalamet.Image: Warner Bros.
At the end of Dune : Part Two , we ascertain Paul Atreides wipe out Feyd - Rautha , thereby venture his call as the next emperor of the galaxy . He then offers to marry the current emperor ’s daughter , Irulan , to keep his bloodline live , which deeply shock Paul ’s Fremen girlfriend , Chani . When Paul hear that the other powers in the galax wo n’t acknowledge his claim , he aims to start out a war by destroying the spice field of Arrakis . With this holy war hanging in the counterbalance , the photographic film ends with an angry , defiant Chani leaving Paul and head back into the desert .
fundamentally , Paul has amply embraced his God - like destiny and claimed superpower — but at the disbursement of the woman he love , and maybe what made her have sex him in the first place . It ’s a down closing that leaves much to the imagination , but it ’s very close to how Herbert ended his leger and that ’s why Villeneuve determine to end the picture that manner too . Here ’s our discussion .
Germain Lussier , io9 : Herbert ’s book ends rather dead and you tend into that and do it the same path . Hopefully , finger crossed , we ’ll get to see Dune Messiah at some stage — but just in case that does n’t happen , was there ever any thought to adding a minute more closure here at the closing of Part Two ?
Image: Warner Bros.
Denis Villeneuve : No , it was always like that . It was always like that to bring this thought home . The melodic theme [ of ] that thing that becomes out of control . That treachery and that tragedy . I had to finish there . And for that I was adamant . I was like 100 % sealed that it was the proficient way . I jazz movies that end like that , like in a strong assertion .
io9 : And the final shot of Chani , how did you fare up with that ?
Villeneuve : Oh , in the screenwriting . It ’s something that I figure out early on and as I was writing the screenplay — I co - wrote this screenplay with Jon Spaiths of course of instruction — but this is an musical theme that I brought and I was like 100 % . It was the expert way to stop the movie .
Villeneuve and Rebecca Ferguson.Image: Warner Bros.
The other big pillager in Dune : Part Two is that the role of Paul ’s as - yet unborn sister , Alia , is played by Anya Taylor - Joy . She only appears shortly in a single scene , in one of Paul ’s future visions , but we had to require Villeneuve about it and he was very conservative .
io9 : Before the movie a friend and I were discussing Alia and wondering how she was going to fit into this . So it was very exciting to see Anya Taylor - Joy pop up apace there . I would like to know how that happened and then also , if you do get to make Messiah , would she play that office ? Because age are a petty off .
Villeneuve : It ’s an theme that I had in the back of my idea as I was writing and it ’s an melodic theme that — I had come across her as I was casting — I had her in mind for that function . And it ’s something that I enjoy . It was like , projecting thought of what Dune Messiah could be . And it ’s very exciting for me .
io9 : Okay , but would she be in that then ?
Villeneuve : I can not say .
Readthe rest of our consultation with Denis Villeneuve hereand check out Dune : Part Two , now in theatre . ( Hopefully , you already did that though since we just talked spoilers . )
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