Dune 3 Lands December 18, 2026 Release as Villeneuve Wraps His Dune Trilogy
- Dune 3 is dated for December 18, 2026, a slot Deadline first reported was being held back in June 2024; the film aimed to start production in summer 2025.
- The third film will likely adapt Frank Herbert's second book, Dune Messiah, which takes place 12 years after the events of the first Dune.
- Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke have joined to play Leto II and Ghanima, the twin children of Timothee Chalamet's Paul Atreides and Zendaya's Chani, born at the end of Dune Messiah.
- Robert Pattinson entered talks in April 2025 for the villain role of Scytale, and later told IndieWire he had been shooting the film in the desert.
- Jason Momoa is expected back as a resurrected ghola of Duncan Idaho, and Denis Villeneuve has said his Dune adaptation ends with this third film; he will next direct the James Bond movie for Amazon MGM Studios.