On Monday got here a report that Denis Villeneuve’s movie adaptation of “Dune: Messiah” had delayed filming and would now go into manufacturing in early 2026 moderately than late subsequent 12 months.
A part of the explanation for that is because of stories that Zendaya will movie “Euphoria” within the early a part of 2025 after which be taking pictures “Spider-Man 4” within the again half of subsequent 12 months earlier than then happening to ‘Messiah’.
In addition, cinematographer Greig Fraser was occupied with Matt Reeves’ “The Batman: Half II” from April via to October subsequent 12 months making him unavailable for the third “Dune” shoot.
Now although, THR has despatched out a narrative on Friday night taking pictures down their very own reporting from Monday. In the brand new one, they point out that in accordance with a number of sources – there is no such thing as a delay.
In truth, the movie will shoot subsequent Summer time with the film’s shoot to overlap with “Spider-Man 4”. They add that the brand new Dune can be “an intensive, multi-location, multi-month shoot” of which Zendaya can be a key half, whereas with Spidey her function could also be comparatively small.
“Dune: Messiah” ought to see the return of key abilities from the prior two movies together with Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Zendaya as Chani, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Anya Taylor-Pleasure as Alia Atreides, Javier Bardem as Stilgar, Charlotte Rampling as Reverend Mom Mohiam and Jason Momoa as a brand new model of Duncan Idaho.
The movie closes out the Paul Atreides story and may it go into manufacturing in late 2025 then it is going to seemingly arrive in early 2027.