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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.
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In a horrifying and bleak near-future Gotham, a beautiful and innocent upper-class single mother enters the brutalist gothic cyberpunk monolith of Arkham Asylum—towering like a rugged Denis Villeneuve Dune fortress in neo-noir black and red, oppressive horror vibes suffocating the air—to visit her husband, wrongfully imprisoned by Hugo Strange. Unbeknownst to her, only monsters remain. Within minutes, 4 dirty thugs built like brutes proceed to beat, violate, and bludgeon her to death, screaming “TAKE HER WALLET!” as they cave her skull in, reveling in their darkest depraved fantasies while reducing her corpse to ground meat, and hurl the faceless remains through her Maybach’s windshield before her 8-year-old daughter. Deep in the facility’s labyrinthine corridors, Victor Zsasz, chained and shirtless, rejects Professor Pyg’s “perfection” offer via disguised Harley Quinn. Zsasz snaps free, carves Harley into a grinning ruin, and unleashes a one-man war through masked Dollotron hordes, his surgical Kali and Silat bladework spraying arterial red while flashbacks unearth the backstory fueling his tally-mark mania. As Zsasz incinerates Pyg’s flesh cathedral and impales the pig mask, Arkham convulses. From the deepest vault, Bane erupts, venom tubes ripped, allied with Deathstroke (hired by Black Mask). They’ve slaughtered most of the Bat Family, tossing mangled bodies from parapets to ignite a riot in which hordes of villains mount an explosive escape. Bane and Deathstroke stand atop the inferno...
