The first two films are based on the first book, ‘Dune’ (1965); while Villeneuve’s idea is to adapt the second book, ‘Dune Messiah’ (1969), into the third installment of the saga.

As the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s sci ... The plot of the first book in the Dune series sees Paul Atreides go from the heir apparent of a Great House on a water-borne world, to a shaken ...