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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.
After Terry McGinnis (Leo Howard)'s father is murdered, a chance encounter with an elderly Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) leads him to take on a long abandoned legacy-- the cowl of the Batman. But between clashing with his reluctant mentor who isn't ready to see someone make the same mistakes he did, trying to hold the pieces of his old life together, and discovering he's in way over his head as more and more of a grand conspiracy with twisted business mogul Derek Powers (John Slattery) at the center, the question isn't just whether Gotham ready for another Batman: it's if Terry can live up to the mantle.
