Little Time Passed Between ‘Dune’ and ‘Dune: Part Two,’ but Worlds Changed

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Little Time Passed Between ‘Dune’ and ‘Dune: Part Two,’ but Worlds Changed

In narrative time, “Dune: Part Two” starts just three hours after the first “Dune” ends, but the decision to open the film in the middle of an eclipse makes it feel like a completely different world. During a recent interview for IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, filmmaker Denis Villeneuve referred to his “idea of the eclipse at the beginning as a tool” to bring an “aesthetic shock” to his sequel. While this choice is motivated by how Paul …