"Dune Part: 2" Wraps Production

Production wrapped on the highly-anticipated movie "Dune Part: 2".

Timothée Chalamet announced Monday the news in a post showing him with his father in the desert.

Principal photography first began in July at sites located in Budapest, Abu Dhabi, Jordan, and Italy.

As the movie enters post-production, not much has been revealed about the upcoming project other than it will pick up directly from where the first movie left off.

The first part of the sci-fi epic opened in October 2021 in the U.S., earning $41 million in ticket sales on its first weekend.

It was the highest-grossing title under Warner Bros. 2021 pandemic theatrical day-and-date HBO Max model grossing $400M and earning six Oscars.

The cast starred Chalamet, 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.

The highly-anticipated sequel will feature newcomers Léa Seydoux, Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler.

Seydoux is set to play Lady Margot, the Bene Gesserit wife of the Mentat Count Hasimir Fenring.

Pugh portrays Princess Irulan, the daughter of the emperor, while Butler stars as Feyd-Rautha, the cunning nephew of the baron who heads House Harkonnen and who is being groomed to rule Arrakis.

Walken will play Emperor Shaddam IV, the ruler of the known universe who initially sends the Atreides family to Arrakis to cause their downfall.

Jon Spaihts co-wrote the script alongside Villeneuve, the latter is also helming the project.

The project is being produced by Mary Parent, Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, and Tanya Lapointe. Kevin J. Anderson, the author who co-wrote many Dune books with Brian Herbert after Frank Herbert’s death, is serving as a creative consultant.

Executive producers include Josh Grode, David Valdes, Herbert W. Gains, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, Kim Herbert, Thomas Tull, Spaihts, Richard P. Rubinstein, and John Harrison.

“Dune” is adapted from Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller of the same name. It is centered around Paul Atreides (Chalamet), a scion of the noble House of Atreides that is tasked with overseeing the barren desert planet Arrakis, known as Dune.

The sequel resumes where “Part One” left off, with Atreides fighting alongside the Fremen to free the desert planet of Arrakis from the grips of House Harkonnen.

Warner Bros. will distribute the movie and help finance it, however, Legendary Entertainment 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.

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

 While the movie is expected to follow the events of the book, Bardem has revealed that it will not be a straightforward adaptation.

"Dune: Part Two" is set to release in theaters on November 3, 2023.