Dune: Part 2Should’ve Been Out This Weekend

Despite being retard a identification number of time due to the pandemic and a general pre - release mental rejection wall it , Denis Villeneuve ’s Duneended up being a well - liked plastic film when it dropped in 2021 . And even with a same day button on then - HBO Max , it cease up making a $ 402 million in theaters and securingseveral nominations and winsduring the awards circuit . So it was n’t surprising when Warner Bros. gave thegreen light for a sequelto be made and set for a late 2023 button .

All the way back in 2021 when the sequel was first harbinger , Warner Bros. staked an October 20 , 2023 release day of the month for Dune : Part Two . But like its predecessor , it could n’t help but being delay : first to November 17 , then toNovember 3 , both as WB tried to account for fluctuating releases from other studios , namelyMarvel ’s Blade(then primed to release on November 3 ) andThe Hunger Games : Ballad of Songbirds & Snakesand Trolls 3 ( both hitting on November 17 ) . A bit disappointing , but hey , at least we got a trailer and poster to make up for it , correct ?

Then the Hollywood strike happen , and everything got thrown out of whack . Unwilling to cede ground to thestriking author and thespian , WB and other studios decided to labor a turn of their late 2023 releases into 2024,Dune let in . The sequel is now set to release in March 2024 — at least , at fourth dimension of piece of writing and assuming another delay is n’t in the plant should the actors continue coin . ( In a few days , the WGA will have reached anagreement with studiosa full month ago . ) The film ’s former lagger was all the way back inlate June , and WB has jolly much been subdued about it since — lead doer Timothée Chalamet only recently open up about the flick , and that was froman interviewconducted months before the strike begin .

Image: Warner Bros.

Regardless of when it end up coming out , Dune : Part Two will end up being a big sight , simply because it ’s a expectant movie star a clustering of hot just the ticket doer like Chalamet , Zendaya , Florence Pugh , Dave Bautista , and Austin Butler . But it ’s interesting to see how holdup and circumstance outside of the mastery of those working on it have terminate up being a part of the bequest of these new Dune films . Hopefully it does n’t proceed to be a course if more ofFrank and Brian Herbert ’s novelsend up being adapted for the big screen .

Dune : Part Two is presently scheduled to free solely in theaters on March 15 , 2024 .

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