it House News on June 29, Warner Bros. updated its schedule on Friday, and one of the "unnamed Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures/Denis Villeneuve IMAX large-scale commercial film" will be released on December 18, 2026. It was released on the same day, and deadline and other major media called it "Dune 3". It is said that Villeneuve is still writing the script and looking for many actors to arrange. At present, he is just "occupying a hole".
Warner also announced that an untitled film in Legendary's MonsterVerse series will be released on March 26, 2027. In addition, December 18, 2026 is also the release date of Disney's currently unnamed " Star Wars " movie; " Batman part ii" will also be released on October 2, 2026.
In fact, it was reported a long time ago that Denis Villeneuve has reached an agreement with Legendary Pictures, and director Villeneuve will give priority to directing the film among many preparatory projects.
However, Villeneuve himself has been very secretive about his next work plan. In a previous interview with hollywoodreporter, he stated that he currently has four projects in preparation. Villeneuve added that he might want to shoot a project he considers more urgent "before shooting Dune 3: Salvation."
thr said: In addition to the currently known "Dune 3", the cooperation projects between Warner and Villeneuve also include the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Jacobson's masterpiece "Nuclear War: A Scenario" (Nuclear War: A Scenario) scenario), but Villeneuve's attention has recently shifted away from this film and returned to "Dune 3."
In addition, he also has the science fiction film "Meet Rama" (2026) adapted from Arthur C. Clarke's original work, "Cleopatra" (2030) and an untitled 007 Works, director Wei is not busy at all.
"Dune 2" has grossed approximately US$711.8 million at the global box office (it House Note: currently approximately 5.181 billion yuan), and was the highest-grossing movie of 2024 until "Inside Out 2" was released earlier this month.