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Dune: Messiahis on its way to theatres, as Denis Villeneuve is hard at work on his threequel. However, there have been some comments from the visionary director that have fans concerned about what might be in store for the franchise.
While Villeneuve has said multiple times that the entire point ofDune: Messiahwas to dispel some misunderstanding about Paul’s character in the firstDunenovel, Frank Herbert himself talked about howMessiahwas not a correction, but the natural continuation ofDune.
Frank Herbert deliberately wanted to paint Paul as a hero that the people would root for
While internet folklore would suggest that Frank Herbert was disappointed by how the public understood Paul Atreides inDune, the truth could not be further from the matter. Frank Herbert has very much set up Paul to be someone the audiences root for, with the goal still being to talk about the problems with a messianic figure. However,Dunewas just one part of the story, withFrank Herbert always expecting to write more books. He said:
The book as I conceived of it was the first three books, they were one book in my head, and I told my agent this. After he recovered from his heart attack he said ‘Do you think you could split it into three at least, maybe four?’ Well I split it into three.
While also horribly misinterpreting what Herbert had in store, Denis Villeneuve also managed to remove the Spacing Guild from the second film, which made an appearance in the first installment, when the Padishah Emperor’s orders were delivered to the Atreides on Caladan. Given that the Spacing Guild has an expanded role in the Messiah, it remains to be seen how Villeneuve will look into them.
Moreover, there was always an idea about the length of the story, and that it would be spread over three books. When Villeneuve says thatMessiahwas written due to the wrong perception that viewers developed about Paul, it seems that there are some problems with that story. Further, given that this paints the way Denis Villeneuve interprets his version ofDune, there might be some things that he has gotten wrong.
Fans have been scouring the internet for information about where Denis Villeuenve found the story
While Denis Villeneuve is very confident in his story that Frank Herbert was disappointed with how Paul Atreides was received, and hence pennedMessiahto turn the character into the villain, there isn’t a shred of evidence that fans have been able to find about that being the case.
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Villeneuve made significant changes to the story based on this reading of the books, which is the reason why Chani is less devoted to Paul in the duology directed by him. In the books, Paul has Chani as his concubine, and the mother of his children, whom he goes out of his way to protect, given that she was expected to die in childbirth.
Fans are trying to figure out where this line of thinking originated, given that there does not seem to be a record of such sentiments before Villeneuve parroted the misinterpretation story.
TheDune: MessiahthatDenis Villeneuvewill make might be a lot harder on the themes it puts forward. This could point towards a more blatant interpretation of the plot and story, painting Paul out to be the bad guy even further. It remains to be seen how mainstream audiences will receive this, given that there are some who genuinely believe that Paul was the hero of the story they were told.
Duneis streaming on Netflix.
Anuraag Chatterjee
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Anuraag Chatterjee, Web Content WriterWith a passion for writing fiction and non fiction content, Anuraag is a Media Science graduate with 2 year’s experience with Marketing and Content, with 3 published poetry anthologies. Anuraag holds a Bacherlor’s degree in Arts with a focus on Communication and Media Studies.
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