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‘Dune: Part Two’ Director Denis Villeneuve Is Ready for Another Round: ‘I Want to Go Back to Arrakis’

With “Dune: Part Two,” director Denis Villeneuve did the unthinkable. He made a Hollywood sequel — really, the second part of his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s influential 1965 novel — that was more satisfying than the first. Everyone returned to the desert planet Arrakis, including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Josh Brolin, this time joined by new characters played by Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken and Léa Seydoux.

The movie feels both bigger and more intimate than before, full of action and just as much emotion. It’s a more complicated, nuanced piece of machinery from one of our most talented filmmakers and one of the more riveting big-screen spectacles of the year.

2021’s “Dune” was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won in six categories, including cinematography, production design, score and visual effects. What makes this accomplishment even more impressive is how many directors tried and failed to get an adaptation of Herbert’s masterpiece into theaters in the years since David Lynch’s doomed 1984 production.

TheWrap: Starting in on “Dune: Part Two,” did you have a list of things you wanted to accomplish? And how many of those things on your…

Sure, It's up for Best Picture, but the Oscars Didn't Really Give 'Dune: Part Two' — and Denis Villeneuve — Their Due

Historically, sequels and franchise films have had a rough time at the Academy Awards. With voters having a tendency to award trophies to original tales, rather than the next installment in a continued story, it is incredibly rare for multiple entries in a film series to receive praise from the Academy. In fact, no cinematic franchise has ever had two of its films win five or more Oscars. Some had theorized that was finally going to change at this year's ceremony, but then the nominations were announced.

With Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two being widely considered a step up from its predecessor — which won in six of the 10 categories it was nominated in at the 94th Academy Awards — many believed it would find a similar level of Oscar success. However, fans and pundits were ultimately left feeling shocked when the film received exactly half the nominations that Dune did. As it is highly unlikely that Part Two triumphs in all five categories it's nominated in, especially with it being a massive longshot for Best Picture, it's safe to say that it won't be making history on Sunday night. In hindsight, perhaps we should not have…

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