DUNE: PART 2 Pushed To 2024; THE MARVELS Could Move Into Vacant Release Date

DUNE: PART 2 Pushed To 2024; THE MARVELS Could Move Into Vacant Release Date

We knew it was a possibility, and with the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes showing no signs of ending, Warner Bros. has decided to push Dune: Part 2 into March of next year...

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By MarkCassidy - Aug 24, 2023 10:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Dune

It's an outcome we all hoped would be avoided, but with the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes showing no signs of coming to an end, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have decided to delay the release of Dune: Part 2 by over four months.

The second part of Denis Villeneuve's epic sci-fi adaptation was scheduled for release on November 2, 2023, and will now arrive in theaters on March 15, 2024.

The studio has also moved Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire back by one month to April 12, 2024, and the animated Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim movie from April 12, 2024 to December 13, 2024.

According to THR, WB simply "couldn’t wait anymore before pulling the plug," since marketing for the Dune sequel would have needed to begin in earnest by early September.

Disappointing news, for sure, but not entirely unexpected.

For now, other WB tentpoles Wonka (December 15), Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (December 20) and The Color Purple (December 25) are staying put, but Deadline believes Marvel Studios could decide to move The Marvels into Dune: Part 2's vacant spot of December 3, which would also allow the sequel to take advantage of IMAX screen availability.

The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on Dune: Part Two, the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel Dune, with an expanded all-star international ensemble cast. The film, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s six-time Academy Award-winning Dune. 

The big-screen epic continues the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed bestseller Dune with returning and new stars, including Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (Wonka, Call Me by Your Name), Zendaya (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Malcolm & Marie, Euphoria), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning), Oscar nominee Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame, Milk), Oscar nominee Austin Butler (Elvis, Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood), Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Black Widow, Little Women), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: Love and Thunder), Oscar winner Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter,), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences), Léa Seydoux (James Bond, Crimes of the Future), with Stellan Skarsgård (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling (45 Years, Assassin’s Creed), and Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Being the Ricardos).

Dune: Part Two will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

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Fares
Fares - 8/24/2023, 10:05 PM
This world is cruel.
TruePunishment
TruePunishment - 8/25/2023, 9:57 PM
@Fares - Scarlett Buscemi
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/24/2023, 10:07 PM
Dune had such a good date. Are cast interviews that valuable? Would The Marvels not need those too then?
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 8/24/2023, 10:20 PM
@tmp3 - Yeah pretty sure they are. Bringing your cast around the world on a tour promoting a project obviously help. Especially with the cast in this film. From Deadline:

"The sequel has the potential to be another Star Wars and to build out a future franchise for both Legendary and Warners, and it needs the social media power of its young cast that includes Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh and Austin Butler to do that. The four of them together count north of 258M followers across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, with Zendaya repping 71% of those alone on IG. Her unavailability during the actors strike was one of the prime reasons MGM pulled her spicy R-rated tennis romance movie, Challengers, directed by Luca Guadagnino, out of its Venice Film Festival premiere, and off its September release date for a late-April 2024 launch."

https://deadline.com/2023/08/dune-2-delayed-march-2024-warner-bros-movies-1235527300/

Look at what happened to Flash, Blue Beetle too and even the TMNT Mutant Mayhem film. The stars that starr in these films must be the ones that generate the buzz and hype, there are no other people better than them who made them to create anticipation. Meet the fans and take pictures with them, sign their stuff etc.

Not what WBD did with Flash by hiring Steven King and Tom Cruise to do it for them because of Ezra's indefensible crimes and there is only so much doing free massive screenings can do until they bite you back and your film is being spoiled by the fans.

Cast promoting their projects are a must in this business.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 8/24/2023, 11:26 PM
@tmp3 - You don’t cast Zendaya and then not want her to promote the movie. Marvel the brand can promote its own stuff well enough. Plus the lame is wide open now, would be foolish to move a Marvel movie out of the month.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 8/24/2023, 10:07 PM
With the "quality" of the writing in the vast majority of major Hollywood movies that come out nowadays, I hope the studios scab all these hacks out of jobs and replace them with AI for good.
The writing couldn't be much worse.
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/24/2023, 10:10 PM
@Feralwookiee - Strange post
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 8/24/2023, 11:23 PM
@Feralwookiee - Maybe the writing is so bad because of how poorly they are paying them and therefore not attracting the most talented people…
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 8/25/2023, 5:57 AM
@TheUnworthyThor - not just the pay, but other factors like the time they get to write the script.

These days Hollywood sequels are being announced with a release date before they have 1 page of a script.

Also studios ask for so much changes and want to shoehorn so much stuff, that a lot of times what started as a good script end up as a Frankenstein monster when they start rolling the cameras.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 8/25/2023, 6:21 AM
@TheUnworthyThor -
If you aren't providing good quality work, people don't become desperate for you to return to working. It's why the actors and writers strikes will go on a long time because they have minimal public support and the studios have lost a lot of money due to the poor quality media being produced - coupled with now having the advent of A.I they think will solve everything.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 8/25/2023, 11:27 AM
@Scarilian - Then logically the people deciding who to hire and what projects to pursue are also not putting in good work.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 8/30/2023, 9:58 AM
@TheUnworthyThor -
Agreed, they don't have an incentive to do so because they are hidden from the spotlight and rarely discussed, so they don't suffer any consequences for inappropriate casting or hiring decisions whether that be actors, directors, etc...
Spawnnn
Spawnnn - 8/24/2023, 10:09 PM
Getting Captain Marvel instead of Dune is probably the worst deal the human race has experienced so far.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 8/25/2023, 8:01 AM
@Spawnnn - hahahaha im just getting to work on this rainy miserable friday and this made me laugh hard so thank you
kazuma
kazuma - 8/24/2023, 10:10 PM
Good. Gives me more time to attempt a rewatch.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 8/24/2023, 10:19 PM
That was my most anticipated film this year, but from my understanding, Legendary wanted the move. Gotta respect that. Welp, more money for Carol Danvers and her pals.

Lots of odd comments against the strike on this site tbh.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 8/25/2023, 9:46 AM
@WakandanQueen - People are getting restless and want new content so they are getting sick of the strike. It makes sense why people will start to turn against them. I mean, no one is forcing them to be writers. If they are not happy with the job/pay they can try and do something else instead. That's what most other working people have to do, so that's what many people will resonate with. That said, I think the studios need to pay up and give them a bigger piece of the pie along.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 8/25/2023, 9:46 AM
@Shivermetimbers - I have no idea how "along" got added to that last sentence.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 8/24/2023, 10:21 PM
Feige should take this chance and take it honestly.

Zaslav's name is trending on Twitter for delaying Dune for his greed, it's hilarious tbh. But also deservedly so, frack him.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 8/24/2023, 10:33 PM
Forthas
Forthas - 8/24/2023, 10:43 PM
Christopher Nolan is now cleared to vacuum up ALL the awards!
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 8/24/2023, 10:49 PM
I've put off long enough, I'm going to watch dune lol I hope part 2 does well in March and I hope the marvels does well with the imax screens as well.
soupysales
soupysales - 8/25/2023, 4:40 PM
@MyCoolYoung - same here...i was waiting for the second part so i could watch both...just have to wait a few more months i guess
BisonScarBlood
BisonScarBlood - 8/24/2023, 10:52 PM
But 2024 is election year, time to shutdown the world again.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 8/25/2023, 6:23 AM
@AxeRedstone -
I wouldn't be surprised, quite a few news outlets trying desperately to push the idea of a need to return to lockdowns to prevent either climate issues or a variety of other reasons including Covid - which everyone has gotten fed up of hearing about.
grif
grif - 8/24/2023, 11:09 PM
not interested in any of this. i have not even seen dune 1 yet.
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 8/25/2023, 6:00 AM
@grif - you can wait until part 2 comes out.

I liked part 1, but didn't find it mind-blowing as it is very much only half of a movie.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 8/24/2023, 11:20 PM
Well Kraven and this moving definitely should help The Marvels.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 8/25/2023, 6:25 AM
@TheUnworthyThor -
I doubt it, people are getting bored of Superhero movies and The Marvels offers nothing people have not seen before. It also was not a particularly in-demand film, coupled with most the characters being established in Disney+ material that nobody watched.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 8/25/2023, 9:49 AM
@Scarilian - Very true. Its not like Blue Beetle had a crowded release date and look how that is doing. Marvels will surely do much better than that, but Id be surprised if it did better than half of the first movie.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 8/25/2023, 11:43 AM
@Scarilian - The lame duck DC movies have been a disaster but the Marvel movies have been holding on alright. Guardian 3 - 846 million, Wakanda Forever - 859, Love and Thunder - 761, Multiverse of Madness - 956. Meaning only one of their last five releases struggled.

But more importantly people go to the movies at holidays. Most of the year a movie like Barbie comes out that people want to see so they flock to the movie theater but at the holidays people are home and make plans to go to the movies without even picking a movie first, it’s why we see so many huge grosses in November and December. And if The Marvels stay and the other big budget action movies vacate then it will will help The Marvels because the families looking for that kind of movie have no other options.

My point however was not how much The Marvels will make but that it will very likely make more now, Dune and The Marvels in back-to-back weekends was always going to be tough for both movies. There are only so many premium screens. Plus now with Kraven gone when The Marvels comes out it will have been 3 months since any superhero movie came out and considering how bad the DC movies did it will have been 6 months since a superhero movie most people saw came out, 6 months between Marvel releases. That’s a good amount of absence for the heart to grow fonder.
JDL
JDL - 8/25/2023, 12:53 AM
If they don't settle the strike soon I can see the Marvels moving to 2024. In the meantime moving to Dec gives them 3 extra weeks for the strike to be ended AND a better calendar slot to boot. BUT if we are still striking in 60 days they will regret not grabbing a 2024 date now.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 8/25/2023, 1:28 AM
Marvels should clean up nicely
EnergyVamp
EnergyVamp - 8/25/2023, 2:39 AM
Literally the only movie that I cared about. I would be fine with not watching another film for 4 months if it meant I got to see Dune 2.
ForceofWakanda
ForceofWakanda - 8/25/2023, 3:44 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 8/25/2023, 4:36 AM
So Dune 2 is moved from November 2, and The Marvels takes it spot on December 3? Am I missing something here (like a whole month)?
eddyxx
eddyxx - 8/25/2023, 6:25 AM
@bkmeijer1 - they don’t proof read anything on this web site.
Deadinside
Deadinside - 8/25/2023, 11:57 AM
@eddyxx - them doesn't poof red anting un dis wib set.☮👍
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