Dune 2 ending defined: What happens in the finish? Will there be a sequel? What happens to Chani?

Dune: Part Two hit cinemas over the weekend and has already proved a huge field workplace success. Denis Villenueve’s science fiction epic earned $81.5m (£64m) in ticket gross sales at the North American field workplace, making it the first main hit of 2024.

Critics have adopted go well with, with constructive evaluations throughout the board for the blockbuster starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. It has acheived a rating of 94 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, to date beating Dune (half one), which now sits at 83.

“I’m not saying the film is perfect,” Villenueve advised reporters final 12 months, “but I’m much more happy with Part Two than I was with Part One.”

Following the pleasure generated by the first movie, some viewers had been disenchanted to see no post-credits scene after the desert-set epic. But what happens subsequent was written over 50 years in the past by Frank Herbert in a story spanning six novels and 20 years.

What happens after the ending of Dune: Part Two?

If you thought the second Dune movie was filled with weirdness, issues actually take a flip in Frank Herbert’s universe after his first e-book (which includes each of Villeneuve’s movies).

Warning: main spoilers observe for the Dune e-book collection, Dune: Part Two – and probably the subsequent movie

Herbert’s second e-book in the collection, Dune Messiah, was written in 1969. It begins twelve years after the remaining occasions at the finish of Dune with Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides having efficiently attained the standing of Emporer of the Universe.

However, as seen in Timothee Chalamet’s Dune: Part Two fever desires, a lot of individuals have died in the imply time. Around 60 billion perish in Paul’s rise to energy, as the ‘messiah’ delusion he helped to create has spiralled out of his management.

He has two youngsters with Chani (performed by Zendaya in the movies), twins Ghanima and Leto Atreides II. However, she sadly dies throughout childbirth, after long-term poisoning by Irulan (Florence Pugh).

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Should audiences ever see Dune Messiah they will additionally look ahead to the return of Duncan Idaho, performed by Jason Momoa, who was missed after being killed in the first movie. In this second e-book he’s resurrected, together with his physique used to create a clone. Over the course of the novels (set over 5,000 years), he’s introduced again to life many instances.

Paul’s sister Alia Atreides (performed briefly by Anya Taylor-Joy in the second movie) doesn’t have a nice time both. In the third e-book Children of Dune, she turns into queen regent, taking up from Paul after he develop into blind.

However, her thoughts is taken over by her deceased grandfather, Baron Harkonnen (performed by Stellan Skarsgård). This outcomes in a psychological energy battle which ends with the character’s loss of life.

Perhaps most unusually, in the fourth e-book God Emperor of Dune, Paul’s son Leto Atreides II attaches sandworm larvae to his physique till, over the course of three,500 years, he turns into a human-sandworm hybrid.

How Denis Villeneuve intends to depict that on display screen will possible stay a thriller for a whereas.