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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.
(New DCU: Chapter 3) When rival Azraels bred by the Order of St. Dumas ignite ritual massacres across the world, their holy doctrine mutates into an escalating war of armored angels, executions, and sacred terror. At its center moves Jean-Paul Valley, whose fractured conditioning and creeping self-awareness turn him into an unstable force of judgment. As the Order collides with the League of Assassins in a shockingly brutal purge, faith collapses into bloodshed, prophecy curdles into violence, and Jean-Paul’s transformation leaves only silence, ruins, and the unsettling sense that something irreversible has been unleashed.
