No one is going to sit through a 5-6 hour movie. Well. Most people won't. They broke it at the perfect moment. While I wasn't initially thrilled about the long wait between both halves, it does add a sense of realism in that time has passed in the real world too and the younger actors might look a bit older now. They weren't shy about it being only part of the adaptation either.
My once-a-year foray into the movie theaters will be in THE LARGEST IMAX SCREENING AVAILABLE.
November can get here faster
And Villeuenue is working on Dune: Messiah as well, the man is saving sci-fi cinema by himself