What Can Fans Expect from DUNE: PART TWO?
By Movieguide® Contributor
In a sequel to the first film, Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment release the first official trailer for DUNE: PART TWO.
If the second film is anything like the first film, which also received a Movieguide® Award Nomination, we will see much more action and excitement.
DUNE: PART TWO will take viewers along the journey of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he finds Chani (Zendaya) and the Freman. He embarks on a journey of revenge against the conspirators who ruined his family. Atreides is faced with a decision to make, the love of his life and the fate of the world. He voyages to stop a horrifying future only he can see.
In a Warner Bros presentation in Las Vegas Zendaya stated, “She’s not just in dreams this time. I only got a small time to find out who she was [in Part One]. … These are still two young people who are trying to grow up, fall in love and leave, being a warrior for your people.”
Villeneuve also stated at the presentation, “Part Two is an epic war movie, much more dense. We visited Arakis. We visit new locations; everything is new in the film. In the first movie, we shot 40% in Imax — this time it’s full Imax.”
Movieguide® previously reported a push back in the release date for DUNE: PART TWO:
Warner Bros. announced that they would delay the release date of the sequel to the Academy and Movieguide® Award-winning movie DUNE.
While the delay for DUNE: PART TWO only pushed the date back from Oct. 20, 2023 to Nov. 17, 2023, delays have historically come in multiples for other blockbuster movies in the post-COVID-19 era (e.g., TOP GUN: MAVERICK, NO TIME TO DIE).
However, the $400 million box office success of the first Warner Bros. picture bodes well for the sequel’s success.
Movieguide® previously honored DUNE as the Best Movie for Mature Audiences. Movieguide®’s review reads:
DUNE is part one of a futuristic science fiction epic based on the classic 1960s novel. In the story, the Galactic Emperor pits one noble faction, the Atreides family, against the Harkonnen family. He removes the Harkonnens from control of a desert planet, which produces a material called spice that gives people long life and powers space travel. The Emperor transfers the planet’s control to Duke Leto Atreides. Angered by this apparent betrayal, Baron Harkonnen invades the planet and has Duke Leto murdered. Leto’s son, Paul, and Paul’s mother escape, however. Paul believes if he can unite the native population, they can overthrow Baron Harkonnen.
DUNE is a powerful, exciting, satisfying epic. It’s worth seeing on a big screen. Even better, the movie has strong Christological themes, excellent dialogue and conservative statements about freedom and individualism. It affirms a father’s love and the importance of motherhood. DUNE has very little foul language, and no explicit crude content. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers because of intense action violence and references to the hallucinogenic properties of the natural resource called spice.
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What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
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