Dune Messiah was the leanest of Frank Herbert’s six Dune books and if Villeneuve did adapt it to complete a trilogy it would either much shorter than the first two films or else be padded out, possibly to include the missing four years your review complained about.
When the Sci-Fi Channel did its miniseries of Children of Dune, Dune Messiah was summed up in the first 30-45 minutes.
Dune Messiah was the leanest of Frank Herbert’s six Dune books and if Villeneuve did adapt it to complete a trilogy it would either much shorter than the first two films or else be padded out, possibly to include the missing four years your review complained about.
When the Sci-Fi Channel did its miniseries of Children of Dune, Dune Messiah was summed up in the first 30-45 minutes.
The subsequent novels were diminishing returns. I'm not sure I got all the way through *Children of Dune.*