You Haven’t Seen the 'Dune: Part Three' Trailer Until You’ve Seen It in Franken-IMAX

Director Denis Villeneuve conceived Dune: Part Three to be seen in large formats above all. “The movie’s really meant to be an IMAX experience and to be seen on the biggest screen as possible,” the director said this week. “That’s how we dreamed the movie.” Which will be fine come December 18 when Dune: Part Three is in theaters. It might even be fine this weekend if you go see Project Hail Mary in IMAX, where, we’re guessing, the new Dune trailer might also appear. But for the rest of us who don’t want to wait, the internet has created something really funny but also excellent: a Franken-IMAX online version of the trailer. This week, an X user named KDCloudy pointed out that if you take the vertical Instagram version of the trailer and superimpose it on top of the horizontal YouTube version of the trailer, several scenes get much wider, duplicating an IMAX experience. Another internet user, YouTube name Wniebowziety, then did just that, and well, it’s kind of amazing. At an event this week, Villeneuve expanded on how he was able to shoot Dune: Part Three in multiple ways and why IMAX is his preferred version of the film. “We shot the movie in 65 millimeter, most of it,” he said. “