{"id":883702,"date":"2026-10-15T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883702\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:18:12","slug":"denis-villeneuve-on-why-he-said-yes-to-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883702\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Villeneuve on Why He Said Yes to James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDenis Villeneuve<\/a> recently told Empire<\/a> that he returned to \u201cDune\u201d for a third and final chapter so he can be \u201csevere with the material,\u201d and that his upcoming James Bond<\/a> movie will be the \u201cvery powerful rocket\u201d he needs to \u201cpull me away from Arrakis.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI said, \u2018Maybe it\u2019s a good idea to go back to this project, not out of nostalgia, not because I miss it, but the opposite \u2014 I\u2019m tired of it.\u2019 I want to make sure that I will be severe with the material. That I will not be complacent,\u201d he explained. \u201cI thought, \u2018When it\u2019s done, I need a very powerful rocket to pull me away from Arrakis.\u2019 When I was asked to do the next Bond, I said: \u2018OK, this is what I need.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVilleneuve, director of \u201cPrisoners,\u201d \u201cSicario\u201d and \u201cArrival,\u201d has not helmed a film outside the \u201cDune\u201d franchise since \u201cPart One\u201d was released in 2021. \u201cDune: Part Two\u201d hit theaters in 2024, and \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d will debut on Dec. 18, 2026. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn June 2025, it was revealed that Villeneuve, a self-described \u201cdie-hard Bond fan,\u201d will direct the next 007 movie<\/a>. There\u2019s been much speculation about who will take up the mantle after Daniel Craig\u2019s 15-year run. Gary Oldman recently claimed that the next James Bond has already been picked<\/a>, but no official casting announcement has been made. <\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Frank Herbert\u2019s \u201cDune Messiah,\u201d \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d chronicles Paul Atreides\u2019 fall from prophetic liberator to tyrannical emperor. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet stars as Paul alongside Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Robert Pattinson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn her own sit-down with Empire<\/a>, Zendaya discussed the arc of her character, Chani, in \u201cDune: Part 3.\u201d She revealed that in the new film, Chani feels \u201ca deep pain\u201d and \u201ca deep betrayal\u201d as Paul becomes unrecognizable from the man she fell in love with. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn the previous film, she opened herself up to the idea of letting someone in, allowing a space for love or gentleness,\u201d she said. \u201cWell, we see how that goes. That part of her life is not as present anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Villeneuve recently told Empire that he returned to \u201cDune\u201d for a third and final chapter so he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7106,88,37117,206],"class_list":["post-883702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-denis-villeneuve","tag-entertainment","tag-james-bond","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}