Dune director Denis Villeneuve will be returning to Arrakis for a third installment of the sci-fi franchise, but he has said Dune: Messiah will likely be his last journey. However, that doesn’t mean that Warner Bros. isn’t interested in moving forward with more Dune movies. A new rumour from scooper Daniel Richtman claims that the studio has plans for Dune 4 and another Dune TV series, all potentially without the involvement of Villeneuve.

World of Reel has heard the same rumours, adding that Villeneuve is reportedly “irked” by these plans to continue the franchise, with or without him.

Now, Villeneuve has previously indicated that he would be fine if someone else continued the Dune franchise. “I think that it would be a good idea for me to make sure that, in ‘Messiah,’ there are the seeds in the project if someone wants to do something else afterwards, because they are beautiful books.