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Is ‘Dune’ About to Become a Cinematic Trilogy? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Fans of doone were delivered a blow when it was
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Speaker 2: announced that the second installment in the series, Dune Part two,
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Speaker 2: was delayed from November to March due to the actors strike,
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Speaker 2: but it appears there may be good news on the
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Speaker 2: horizon to counterbalance the bad a third film. So far,
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Speaker 2: only two films have been given the green light, but
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Speaker 2: director Denise Leneuve told Empire magazine he wants to adapt
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Speaker 2: Dune author Frank Herbert's second book, Dune Messiah, if the
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Speaker 2: studios will let him, saying, if I succeed in making
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Speaker 2: a trilogy, that would be the dream. Dune Messiah was
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Speaker 2: written in reaction to the fact that people perceived Timothy
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Speaker 2: Chalome's character Paul as a hero, which is not what
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Speaker 2: Herbert intended. My adaptation is closer to his original idea
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Speaker 2: that it's actually a warning. The director says his interest
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Speaker 2: in adapting any more of the Dune stories from its
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Speaker 2: six total books doesn't really extend beyond that, so the
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Speaker 2: third film would be his last, and it's more than
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Speaker 2: just a pipe dream, He confirms. The screenplay is in
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Speaker 2: the works June Part two. It's theater's March fifteen.
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