It was one of the small drawbacks that could be put to the premiere of Dune in 2021: that no poster or advertisement for the film specified that the Denis Villeneuve film that we were going to see at the cinema was not a complete narration, but a “first part”. Something that did not please those who did not take their time to at least know what Warner had prepared around Frank Herbert’s work.
What’s more, the most serious aspect of this commercialization of the film was not only the screening of the film as a first installment, but also the fact that the second installment was not guaranteed and it completely depended on whether it would be carried out if the collection numbers were up to par, something that happened very soon when a Warner Bros in the midst of a transformation process due to COVID gave orders to the Canadian director to continue with the planned plan.
A second part already underway
Now, things are going so well that Warner Bros has moved the release window of this second part of Dune so that we can enjoy it sooner than we had planned and that they had set for November 17, 2023. That is, Just over two years since the arrival in theaters of this new adaptation of the famous science fiction novels that began to be published in 1965.
With the new changes that the production company itself has already announced, Dune fans will be able to see the second part two weeks earlier, specifically on November 3, 2023 , although, given the changes, why do you think they have changed things so suddenly? ? There is an explanation.
As always, Marvel is to blame
Before Warner decided to make this change, a lot had happened on the Marvel sidewalk. Those of Disney decided to move earlier this week the release windows of some highly anticipated UCM films and, more specifically, one that was the one that affected the second installment of Dune : Blade .
This movie was scheduled to hit theaters on November 3, 2023, so Warner didn’t want to get anywhere near that day lest the vampire story eat up their space epic, so it was deemed safe to take the premiere to day 17. But since Marvel has changed those dates and there is no danger , then it is time to return Denis Villeneuve’s film to a moment that provides two more weeks of collection within the same year.
Fourteen days are not a world either, but they are enough to take over the collection on a very special weekend such as Halloween week where, whether we like it or not, there is more movement in cinemas and it can help to have better results. And let’s hope that those of Dune continue along the path of the first installment, a film that was extraordinarily well received by both the public and the critics. Nope?