"Dune 2" Greenlit, Release Date Set for 2023

Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's “Dune” is officially getting the sequel treatment.

Legendary Entertainment announced Tuesday the news on Twitter, saying: "This is only the beginning... Thank you to those who have experienced "Dune" movie so far and those who are going in the days and weeks ahead. We're excited to continue the journey!".

https://twitter.com/Legendary/status/1453058884516466691?s=20

Warner Bros. will distribute the movie and help finance it, however, Legendary will be the primary money behind the movie and owns the movie rights to Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller of the same name.

It is centered around Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, a scion of the noble House of Atreides that is tasked with overseeing the barren desert planet Arrakis, known as Dune.

A sequel to Arrakis was always part of the plan. Villeneuve was adamant in interviews that his adaptation to the novel would have two parts. In fact, the movie’s opening title sequence read “Dune: Part 1”.

“Dune: Part 2” will hit theaters on Oct. 20, 2023.

https://youtu.be/8g18jFHCLXk

The first part of the sci-fi epic opened on Oct. 22 in the U.S., earning $41 million in ticket sales in its first weekend.

The movie featured a star-studded cast that also included Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chang Chen, David Dastmalchian, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem.