Marvel certainly didn’t invent the post-credits scene—a tease after the film’s final moments and the on-screen text listing its principal contributors, which has been employed as far back as 1966—but Marvel has intensified expectancy. For a sprawling franchise like Dune, likely getting a sequel, it would seem natural for a Part 2 tease, maybe another vision, a prophesy. Except Dune director Denis Villeneuve isn’t a fan. He doesn’t like that post-credits crap.
“I don’t like post-credits scenes,” Villeneuve told NME in an interview. “There is a very specific final emotion that I was looking for with the final frame [of Dune] and I don’t want to mess with that.”
Despite pre-production plans of splitting Dune—based on the first novel of the series by Frank Herbert—into two feature films, Villeneuve never officially received a green light for the sequel. Because of this uncertainty, he wanted the first film to feel complete. In an interview with Variety, he explained how he treated the production: “As I was doing the first part, I really put all my passion into it, in case it would be the only one.”
Inserting a post-credits scene would be messing not only with the final frame’s emotion—the end of Paul’s familiar life; the beginning of something uncertain—it would also mess with the film’s potential finality.
Worst case: there is no sequel. But there also isn’t a tease for events which occur outside the first film’s action.
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Is there a post credits scene in Dune?
No. Villeneuve: “No, I don’t use post-credits scenes. I’ve never done that and I would never.”
The only post-credits continuation Villeneuve and fans want is a whole new movie. While nothing yet has been confirmed, Villeneuve said he’s optimistic. Warner Brothers CEO Ann Sarnoff has also strongly hinted that a follow-up will happen.
As far as timing, Villeneuve said he’s ready to go: “If ever there’s enthusiasm and the movie is green lit sooner than later, I will say that I will be ready to shoot in 2022, for sure.”
Josh St. Clair
Joshua St Clair is an editorial assistant at Men’s Health Magazine.
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