Will Dune’s Writer Eric Roth Return For The Sequel? Here’s His Honest Thoughts

Eric Roth, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Forrest Gump and was nominated for the most recent remake of A Star is Born, wrote the screenplay for Dune alongside Denis Villeneuve and Passengers scribe Jon Spaihts. The buzz surrounding the movie has been strong, which has only increased the odds that the story will be finished up and the second movie will get made. And while one might expect that everybody who worked on the first movie would be back for part two, Roth tells Collider that, despite writing a treatment for the second film, he thinks he's done with the project. According to the writer himself,