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During IMAX’s Q2 earnings call, the company dropped a slideshow detailing some of the big-budget movies coming to IMAX in 2026. Along with projects like the live-action Moana, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Toy Story 5, and The Mandalorian and Grogu is art for an untitled Dune-Denis Villeneuve movie from Warner Bros. Pictures. While it doesn’t explicitly state the movie is Dune: Messiah, all signs point to the movie possibly adapting the story from the Frank Herbert novel. It could go with the Dune: Messiah name or decide to switch it up to something unique.
“Villeneuve and Legendary are currently developing a third movie in his Dune series that is based on the writings of sci-fi author Frank Herbert. Dune: Part Two, which hit theaters in March from Warner Bros., is currently the year’s highest-grossing film domestically, having surpassed $250 million,” THR wrote in its report on Dune: Messiah.
When we asked him about a third Dune film earlier this year, Villeneuve said Dune: Messiah, as the film may be called, will only get made if the script is “tremendous.”
“The longest thing and the most delicate moment; as Frank Herbert said at the beginning of Dune. beginnings are very delicate times. It’s like screenwriting,” the filmmaker told us at the time. “Dune Messiah – which, Dune 3, the title would be Dune Messiah – we’ll see the day when the screenplay will be ready and I want to make sure that there will be no compromise. It has to be tremendous. All is there to make the fantastic film, and I don’t want to mess it up.”
