One part of creating that sense was shooting frequently during “magic hour,” the phrase filmmakers use for that brief window when the sun is setting and the world is bathed in gold. I think it’s just as foreign to us as it probably is to the characters.” “What does that look like for a space warrior and the young duke of a planet? How do they show that they like each other? What does that even sound like? We were definitely trying to navigate that, which was funny because all of us were stumped.
“It was funny trying to figure out in this futuristic space talk, like, how do they flirt?” Zendaya tells Vanity Fair. That was easier to propose than accomplish. To accomplish this, Dune: Part Two had to be an epic love story between the two. Villeneuve’s challenge was to create investment in Paul’s quest for vengeance, and Chani’s determination to protect and defend her homeworld.
But all of that would become abstract if the audience had no investment in who won this epic clash. It’s a story about surviving with limited resources and the dangers of exploiting the natural world instead of living in harmony with it. The story of Dune centers on warlords fighting for control of “spice,” the mind-altering mineral that’s found only on Arrakis and imbues those who consume it with luminous azure eyes. Chani looks back at him and says, “It’s only the beginning,” which stands as a coded message to the viewer that the story remains incomplete. In the final moments, he watched as one of the Fremen used ropes and hooks to latch onto one of the burrowing leviathans known as sandworms, and rode off into the distance. There he met Chani, played by Zendaya, an ethereal woman who had been appearing in his dreams, and was welcomed into her tribe of desert survivors known as the Fremen. He had survived the destruction of his powerful family by the rapacious industrialists known as House Harkonnen, but was cast out into the barren sands of planet Arrakis. I wanted dramatic continuity with part one.”īefore the credits rolled on that movie, Timothée Chalamet’s young royal Paul Atreides, prophesied to become a great leader, had been reduced to nothing. “I wanted the movie to really open just where we left the characters. There’s a difference,” Villeneuve tells Vanity Fair for this exclusive first look.
“It’s important-it’s not a sequel, it’s a second part. Director Denis Villeneuve wants to make it clear that his new movie, set for release November 3, is not so much another film as a continuation of the first. If you want to know where Dune: Part Two will begin, just look to the ending of the 2021 original.
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