What to know
The film is based on Frank Herbert’s novel Dune Messiah (1969), the follow-up to Dune, and concludes Denis Villeneuve’s trilogy after Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). Villeneuve wrote the screenplay with Brian K. Vaughan. Legendary approved development in April 2024; the producers are Villeneuve, Tanya Lapointe, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter and Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr., and Warner Bros. Pictures distributes worldwide.
Filming ran from July 8 to November 11, 2025, at Origo Film Studios in Budapest and in the Liwa Oasis in Abu Dhabi. Linus Sandgren replaced Greig Fraser as cinematographer. The film was shot mainly on 65 mm film, with selected sequences on 15/70 mm IMAX film, a first for Villeneuve, while the desert scenes were again shot with IMAX-certified digital cameras. Hans Zimmer composed the score; the first single, “Desert Chant”, came out on October 20, 2026.
The film opens in Ukraine on December 17, 2026 (Kinomania), and in the United States on December 18, where it gets a three-week exclusive run on IMAX screens even though Avengers: Doomsday opens the same day. More in When does Dune: Part Three come out.
