Villenueva, director of the movie "Sand Dunes 2", is about to come to China to spark the expectations of Chinese fans.

Based on Frank Herbert's famous science fiction adaptation, Sand Dunes 2, a Hollywood sci-fi behemoth created by legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., released a director greeting video today. In the video, director Dennis Villenueva says hello to the Chinese audience and predicts that he will come to China to meet with Chinese audience friends to witness the legendary journey of the chosen son Paul (Timothy Charamei) to dominate fate on the big screen. In addition, producer Tanya Laponte will also come to China with director Dennis Villenueva. The film will be released in the mainland on March 8, and the first film of "Sand Dunes" will be re-shown in the mainland on March 1. The pre-sale of the two films is in progress. Please look forward to it.

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In recent years, more and more Chinese audiences have been moved and attracted by director Dennis Villenueva's creative style. His charming "Uighur Aesthetics" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, widely discussed and loved by the audience, and, as always, the label of "high quality". Let countless fans pay close attention to his new work. Dennis Villeneueva was honored as "most watched Director" on Douban's film list in 2021, and Dennis Villeneueva became one of the two directors to enter the finals in the vote for "Best Director of the past 25 years" on the authoritative North American scoring website rotten tomato in 2023. It is also worth mentioning that "Sand Dunes 2" won the "most anticipated Foreign language Movie of 2024" TOP1 in Douban's 2023 film list. Director Villenueva, who is widely loved by fans, is affectionately known by Chinese fans as "God of Virtue". For Chinese fans, director Villenueva's visit to China is undoubtedly an annual event full of endless expectations.

The film follows the plot of the first film "Sand Dunes", which tells the story of Paul Etrendi's legendary journey after being wiped out by the emperor and the Hakenans, who met Cheney (Zandaya), a female Freeman warrior, and joined the Fremans on the dune planet. Paul went to war with the schemers who destroyed his family and was faced with a dilemma between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe. The first film "Sand Dunes" won ten Oscar nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, and finally won six awards for best photography, best editing, best visual effects, best sound effects, best art direction, and best original soundtrack. On the basis of continuing the aesthetic style of the first work in the series, "Sand Dunes 2" has been comprehensively upgraded in multiple dimensions, such as narrative, production, scene, Cass and so on. Will bring the audience a more immersive and shocking experience of watching movies on the big screen.

The movie "Sand Dunes 2" is directed by Dennis Villenueva, the new godfather of the sci-fi movie "Dune", "coming" and "Blade Runner 2049". Timothy Charamay, Zandaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Baden, Josh Brolin, Strand Scarsgaard, Dave Batista, Charlotte Lamplin, Austin Butler, Christopher Walken, Florence Pew, Leiya Saidu and other actors. The film, jointly produced by legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. in the United States, will be released in the mainland on March 8.