They’re dune it. Variety reports that following the massive box office success of Dune: Part Two, Legendary has tapped Denis Villeneuve for a third installment that would presumably continue the story of how Paul Atreides goes on to conquer the galaxy. Earlier this year, Villeneuve told Empire that he had already “put words on paper” thinking about where he would like to take the Dune franchise going forward.
This is going to be interesting, as Dune Messiah is a radically different book to Dune. It eschews a lot of the action and heroics in favor of discussions of politics and statecraft. Very much a slow-burn compared to first book.