

While the franchise itself - based on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert - has been around for a good while, it has never achieved rousing mainstream success - until now. “Dune” is a larger-than-life, star-studded science fiction epic. Now we arrive at “Dune,” Villeneuve’s most ambitious project to date. Following with “Blade Runner 2049,” Villeneuve showed us that he is not afraid to take on big Hollywood and deliver a big budget spectacle. With “Arrival,” we witnessed a heart-filled and beautiful time-travel film grounded in realism. A warzone dominated by the likes of “Star Wars” and “Star Trek,” Villeneuve has tactically navigated the trenches in order to survive. Since his 2016 film “Arrival,” Canadian director Denis Villeneuve has been slowly drifting into the harsh wastelands of science-fiction cinema.
