Dune: Part Two may reportedly get delayed into 2024, because of the ongoing Hollywood labour union strikes. As per Variety’s sources, Warner Bros. is ‘strongly contemplating’ pushing the Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya-led grand sci-fi sequel from its November 3 slot, however hasn’t reached out to co-producer Legendary Pictures for the dialogue. The firm can also be contemplating transferring its two December releases — Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and The Color Purple — to the next yr. The former just lately completed its third spherical of reshoots and is slated for December 20, whereas the Blitz Bazawule-directed musical is scheduled to drop simply 5 days in a while Christmas Day.
While it is actually disheartening for followers, it does make sense for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two to get delayed, contemplating how closely it is banking on its starry forged, together with the likes of the aforementioned Chalamet and Zendaya, alongside Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh (Black Widow), Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die), Austin Butler (Elvis), Javier Bardem, and so forth. With the SAG-AFTRA strike in full impact, the actors are barred from selling their movies or taking part in interviews main as much as the movie’s launch. A more moderen impact of the strike was seen in the course of the London premiere of Oppenheimer, the place the group moved the screening occasion up by an hour to keep away from the looming risk of an actors’ strike. The motion finally went by way of and the forged walked out of the screening in solidarity. The report notes that WB searching for a future launch date signifies that the corporate is not assured that the strike shall be resolved by mid-autumn/ fall.
This may be very harking back to the yr 2021 once more when the COVID-19 pandemic brought on restricted theatres to stay open, affecting Villeneuve’s Dune, although it by some means nonetheless managed to return off as a business success, incomes $402 million (about Rs. 3,297 crore) globally. And the one purpose that was doable was that the filmmaker blasted Warner Bros. for its unique determination to launch its total 2021 slate concurrently on HBO Max and in theatres. “Dune is by far the best movie I’ve ever made. My team and I devoted more than three years of our lives to make it a unique big-screen experience. Our movie’s image and sound were meticulously designed to be seen in theatres,” Villeneuve mentioned in an open letter, on the time. “I’m speaking on my own behalf, though I stand in solidarity with the sixteen other filmmakers who now face the same fate.”
The Color Purple, the second movie adaptation of the eponymous 1982 novel by Alice Walker — the primary being Steven Spielberg’s 1985 movie — follows the lifelong struggles of an African American girl residing within the South in the course of the early 1900s. It is co-produced by Oprah Winfrey and is being thought of for a ‘strong awards marketing campaign,’ which may very well be terribly affected by the strikes. Meanwhile, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which already suffered a number of delays, has now eliminated Ben Affleck’s cameo as Batman/ Bruce Wayne attributable to canonical inconsistencies brought on in The Flash film, and since new DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran did not need to promise a cinematic universe that may not come to fruition.
The November slot this yr is filled with different extremely anticipated movies similar to Marvel Studios/ Disney’s The Marvels (November 10), Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (November 17), and Ridley Scott’s Joaquin Phoenix-led Napoleon (November 22). Currently, it is unclear whether or not these studios additionally plan on delaying its releases.
For the time being, Dune: Part Two continues to be slated to launch November 3 in theatres worldwide.
