Deadline reports, and Legendary has confirmed to Variety.

What counts as Dune 3?

@Joshua the third part to the trilogy? are there spinoffs i didnt know about

@strutheo A sequel is the most likely but you never know, maybe they announce a prequel or something.

@Joshua ok i mean the REAL third dune movie here

@strutheo The second part is not announced yet and they are not as closely related as LotR. Chances are very slim.

@strutheo I'm still confused.

The novel trilogy is "Dune", "Dune Messiah", and "Children of Dune".

The two movies so far are about the first book, hence "Dune" and "Dune Part 2". The third movie should be "Dune Messiah" (maybe "part 1"). There should be no "Dune Part 3" although some will probably call it that.

@marktwse ah then maybe i am misunderstanding, do the books become prequels, or are they all in chronological order?

in any case i still just mean the 3rd mainline dune movie that will follow up the story of the one we just saw

@strutheo These three books are in chronological order and there is a 12 year skip between Dune and Dune Messiah. Would be fitting if they wait for Chalamet to look like a grown up.

Overall, there is a lot more Dune stuff. Similar to Star Wars it started in the middle.

close to this one: /Joshua/will-a-third-dune-movie-be-announce

@strutheo What is the difference?

@marktwse this one is end of april, the other one i linked is before the start of april