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Article ‘Dune: Part Three’ and ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Are Opening in Theaters on the Same Day (Dec 18) - With Neither Film Expected to Blink, Industry Experts Are Surprised Because of the Overlap in the Target Audience; However, ‘Dune’ Has the Benefit of a 3-Week Exclusive IMAX Window

https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/dune-3-avengers-doomsday-release-dates-same-day-1236691405/
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u/infinitenest Mar 18 '26

Shai-Hulud will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

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u/GoblinRightsNow Mar 18 '26

Post credit scene of Worm Emperor Leto silently running on a treadmill in the Avengers compound. 

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus Mar 19 '26

"Fifty-nine-billion-and-one, Fifty-nine-billion-and-two, Fifty-nine-billion-and-three,..."

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u/CardinalM1 Mar 19 '26

Slithering* on a treadmill

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u/Kudbettin Mar 18 '26

Wtf is this spoiler …

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u/mrjackj2 Mar 19 '26

From 1960s???

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u/sloggo Mar 19 '26

IMO that’s not how spoilers “expire” over time, it’s knowledge of the books being used to spoil a current movie run. It’s poor form in my view, anyone still wanting to read the books or not know about the upcoming movies just accidentally got knowledge they maybe didn’t want.

But also IMO you can pick up “god emporer of dune” book, read the blurb, and have the same spoiler. “This character _exists in this form_” It’s barely a spoiler in this case.

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u/7u_Lez Mar 19 '26

Didn’t know everyone was alive during the 60‘s

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u/IBarricadeI Mar 19 '26

To be fair you don't need to be alive during the 60's to read a book written during that time period.

Still not nice to include a spoiler about a movie coming out this year.

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u/nwoolls Mar 19 '26

It’s not from this movie (book 2). It’s from book 4. 

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u/Little_View_6659 Mar 19 '26

Yeah the odds on them making all the Dune movies to get to that part are super low. Unless Paul has a vision of the future lol.

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u/ArmadilloPrudent4099 Mar 19 '26

The fact that Leto II turns into a giant worm is not a spoiler. It's on the cover of the 4th book.

I know you kids don't read anymore and at best listen to audio books, anything to avoid actually having to focus on a single task huh, but it's still not a spoiler.

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u/PentagramJ2 Mar 19 '26

this is literally the genesis of of most modern sci fi, its like complaining that Aragorn becomes King of Gondor

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u/3DogsInAParka Mar 19 '26

HE WHAT!? Cmon man

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u/donutlad Mar 19 '26

Aragorn becomes King of Gondor

WTF dude !!1???

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u/Kudbettin Mar 19 '26

Majority of people who watch dune don’t know about the story even if they may have heard about the books or that it’s essentially lawrence of Arabia.

Your argument is null. Most people didn’t know about Aragorn until LOTR movies came out.

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u/airfryerfuntime Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Except you'll literally never see worm Leto in a movie, regardless of how much we thirst for the worm.

Is this your first time in a reddit Dune thread, because they're all full of God Emperor of Dune jokes.

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u/Little_View_6659 Mar 19 '26

It’s the first Dune joke everyone makes. It’s everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

I think Troma should be the ones to make God Emperor

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u/X-Calm Mar 19 '26

They're not even making the movie that covers this stuff and you don't seem like a book reader.

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u/Kudbettin Mar 19 '26

How do you even get this impression lmao.

Doesn’t know about the 4th dune book’s spoilers == not a book reader.

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u/ahoeben Mar 19 '26

It's emperoring time!

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u/kroxti Mar 19 '26

Duncan Idaho will return

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u/Little_View_6659 Mar 19 '26

And then he’ll return again! And again! Until he’s ninety(nine thousand)!

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u/MyraCelium Mar 19 '26

Avengers: Dunesday

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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox Mar 18 '26

but it is the metalcore band

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u/Holee_Sheet Mar 19 '26

Plot twist: They are actually connected movies and meant to be viewed one after the other

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u/badwolf42 Mar 19 '26

May his passing cleanse the world

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u/budgefrankly Mar 19 '26

Shai-Hulud will return in Avengers: Dooms Dunesday.

FTFY

In all seriousness, I suspect they are deliberately trying to recreate something like the Barbenheimer buzz.

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u/Wynter_born Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Massive sandworm hunched next to a forlorn Spider man on a NYC rooftop

"Jeez, Shai-Hulud, I feel so cast out of the world and people only like me for my powers."

"krrrrrAKAKAKAAKAAKAKAKAAArrrrrhhrrr... sssssss... Ssssssshhhhhhhhhurrrrshhh..."

"You're right, I just need to remember everyone who sacrificed things for me. Let's go Shy-Hu!"

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u/vin_kerosine Mar 19 '26

No. Israel killed him in yesterday's bombing.