'Dune: Part Three' Begins Like a Sci-Fi 'Saving Private Ryan'

It’s almost too obvious. A movie starts with a big, action-packed war scene where a lot of people die. Of course, you think of Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film, Saving Private Ryan. It’s so on point. So easy to figure out. And so, there’s no way director Denis Villeneuve didn’t consider that when he crafted the opening of Dune: Part Three, which was revealed this week at CinemaCon. Villeneuve screened the first seven minutes of his new movie at the event, and here’s how it played out. If you don’t want to wait until December, of course. Over the opening logos for Warner Bros., Legendary, and more, there are drums. They beat louder. Faster. A siren sounds, and a bunch of rectangular-shaped ships are shot into space. They make their way through the atmosphere of an unknown planet, and it’s brutal. Lightning strikes all around as they enter the atmosphere and plunge towards the surface. A few actually get destroyed by the weather as they continue to drop and approach the planet’s surface. The ones that make it through level out and fly along the surface. It’s very Star Wars as the rectangular-shaped vehicles coast along the ground, mentioning how they’ve never seen water fall from the sky