With Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two, director Denis Villeneuve took one Frank Herbert novel and turned it into two films. But, with the upcoming movie Dune Messiah, he might be doing the opposite: cramming two books into one movie.
A new casting rumor suggests that maybe, just maybe, Dune 3 will not just adapt the second Herbert Dune novel, but also draw upon aspects of the third book, the 1976 bestseller, Children of Dune. If remotely true, Dune Messiah will do something very similar to what the 2003 SyFy Channel adaptations did. Plus, because of what we saw in Dune: Part Two, there’s a precedent for this kind of thing.
