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Denis Villeneuve (born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide. Villeneuve began his career in his home country, directing four French-language dramas: August 32nd on Earth (1998); Maelström (2000); Polytechnique (2009), a dramatisation of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre; and Incendies (2010). The last of these gained him international prominence and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He expanded to English-language films by directing the thrillers Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), and Sicario (2015). Villeneuve gained wider recognition for directing science fiction films. His work on Arrival (2016) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. This was followed by Blade Runner 2049 (2017), which was critically lauded but financially unsuccessful. His next projects were Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. Both films were critically and commercially successful, with the former earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
Something incredible has been found on the planet BG-386 in the refinery colony "Freya's Prospect". The ruins of an ancient temple, of inhuman origin, with a fighting arena on the roof and a panoramic pyramid underground. The leader of the Weyland-Yutani corporation (which runs the colony), Karl Bishop Weyland , eager to explore and control dangerous secrets, arrives on the planet to open it and seize the ultimate contents it holds, no matter what horror his actions may bring. For on the other side of the galaxy, the opening of the ancient structure will alert a race of fearsome warriors who will send out a band of hunters to ensure the pyramid's secrets remain sacrosanct at all costs. Meanwhile, in the bowels of the pyramid, the most bloodthirsty species of creature in the universe has awoken from its millennia-long slumber. The people of the USCM send the battleship USS Marlow into battle, carrying Marines. An epic battle for survival is about to begin, and it will be revealed who in this bloody triangle is the most powerful being in the galaxy.
