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Similar to “Barbenheimer” last year, the release of Dune: Part Two has been a cultural event the likes of which rarely happen in the movie business, certainly over the last decade or so since the streaming era began.
The follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 film Dune, Dune: Part Two opened to $178.5 million at the global box office and $81.5 million in the United States during its first weekend.
But beyond the dollars and cents is the passion with which the film has been met, as memes about Dune: Part Two have not only taken over the internet — jokes about Javier Bardem’s Stilgar have been particularly popular since the film’s release — but have also bled into real life, as a dude in Tulsa, Oklahoma showed to the theater in a homemade Fremen Stillsuit atop a rideable sandworm.
What’s helped Dune: Part Two become such a phenomenon, other than Villeneuve’s visionary directing, is its cast of young movie stars, as the film features the likes of Timothee Chalament, Zendaya, Austin Butler, and Florence Pugh.
The oldest of that group is the 32-year-old Butler, who, conversely, has been famous for the shortest period of time compared to the other three.
Alongside Chalamet, Zendaya, Butler, Pugh, and Bardem, Dune: Part Two also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, Josh Brolin, Christopher Walker, Lea Seydoux, and more.
Given the gigantic success of Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros. will undoubtedly be eager for Villeneuve to begin work on Dune: Part Three, which will be based on the Frank Herbert novel Dune: Messiah.
While Villeneuve has indicated he might take some time away from the deserts of Arrakis in the coming years to work on his other projects that are currently in development, legendary composer Hans Zimmer has sort of contradicted those claims by revealing he’s already begun working on music for the third movie in the franchise.