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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.
It is the year 3049. Nearly 300 years since General Aleksandr Kerensky took the remnants of the Star League to the deep, unknown reaches of space outward of the Inner Sphere, the Clans have waited for their time to return to the Inner Sphere and reform the Star League in their image of their great founder. The moment arrived when a ComStar explorator vessel the "Outbound Light" inadvertently jumped into space belonging to Clan Smoke Jaguar, most aggressive of the Clans. Seeing this as an opportunity to launch the invasion, Khan Leo Showers uses the Outbound Light incident as casus belli to break the stalemate between the Wardens and the Crusaders in the Grand Council. Enter Jayden, a ristar in the 362nd Assault Cluster. He and his Star embark upon a grand invasion of the Inner Sphere to wrest it from the barbarians who despoil it. But, as the invasion degrades into a slog, reality sets in and some in the Clans begin to question their cause, and loyalties will be tested...
