Dune: Part Two: Find Out Who Dies In The Sci-Fi Superhit

Dune: Part Two hit the theatres on March 1.

The makers and cast of Dune: Part Two are already basking in the critical and commercial success of the science fiction film. The movie, based on the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert, was directed by Denis Villeneuve. The big-budget film follows up after part one of Dune released in 2021. The sequel details the journey of protagonist Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) as he meets Chani (Zendaya) and wages a war against those who destroyed his family. In the sequel, some major characters are killed at the hands of Paul. According to Comic Book, the major character death in Dune: Part Two doesn’t take place until the film’s third act.

The movie takes a gory turn once Paul engages in an all-out war with Emperor Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken). Next, we see major deaths among the Harkonnen leadership. Baron Vladimir (Stellan Skarsgard) and his nephews Rabban (Dave Bautista) and Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler) are all killed by Paul. Paul kills Feyd-Rautha in a dramatic knife battle scene after he leads a sandworm charge against the Harkonnen forces.

The part three of Dune films has not been officially announced yet, but it will get its source material from Herbert’s 1969 novel Dune Messiah. The events in this follow-up book take place 12 years after the events of Dune. Director Denis Villeneuve has already admitted that he is working on the screenplay of the third Dune film.

In a recent interview with Cine21, the Oscar-winning director said, “I’m working on four different screenplays. I know that Dune: Messiah will be one of them, I don’t know if it will be the next or the second next.” The Canadian filmmaker added, “My job was to try to keep the spirit of Frank Herbert alive as much as possible — the whole meaning of Dune becomes clear with Dune: Messiah.”

In an interview with Time, Villeneuve, now 56, mentioned that he first read Dune when he was 14 years old. Talking about Dune’s message he said, “Frank Herbert wanted the book to be a cautionary tale, a warning against charismatic religious leaders. He felt that he failed because people misperceived his intentions. So he wrote “Dune Messiah,” an epilogue where he made sure his ideas would be seen. I think the movie’s more tragic and more dramatic than the book because it’s closer to Frank’s intentions.”