Warner Bros. is moving Denis Villeneuve's `Dune` from its December release date to Oct. 1, 2021, an individual with knowledge of the situation said.

The studio's `The Batman` is also supposed to open on Oct. 1, 2021. There's been no word yet on whether Warner Bros. plans to shift the Robert Pattinson film to make way for `Dune.`

Villeneuve has assembled an impressive cast for the Warner Bros. epic, including Timothee Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Chang Chen, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Dave Bautista. It's his first film since the equally ambitious and visually daring `Blade Runner 2049` from 2017. Villeneuve also co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts based on Frank Herbert's novel from 1965.

In Villeneuve's version, produced by Legendary Pictures, the `Call Me By Your Name` and `Lady Bird` star Chalamet takes up the role of Paul Atreides, a member of a wealthy family sent away from his homeworld to the desolate planet Arrakis, where he's meant to oversee the extraction of a spice vital to the galaxy.

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The movie release calendar has been shifting in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic - just last week, the upcoming James Bond film `No Time to Die` was moved again to April 2, 2021. Whether `Wonder Woman 1984` will open on Christmas Day of this year is the question.