It also reads like he reached out for help at all. He ended up back at his camp / lodging and maybe he never felt like he was in danger. Clearly he should've contacted whoever was worried about him if he had phone service, but i'm not answering random calls on a normal day and especially not when i'm enjoying the outdoors.

Living in Colorado i've met people who'll go hiking and sleep outdoors for a week and not contact anyone. I had a co-worker who biked from Denver to Grand Junction and left his phone off except when he was stopping in towns.

"We've been trying to reach you about your life's extended warranty."

I have zero proof but half of me thinks the sequel was guaranteed months/years ago and this whole “wait and see” tactic is just some new form of guerrilla marketing to get people to go the theaters.

Studios today are forging “leaks” and releasing promo images that just so happen to become meme formats. I wouldn’t put it past them to pretend the fate of a sequel hinges on how many of your friends you can convince to buy a movie ticket.

Just go over to r/dune and say you’re planning on watching it for free on HBO max. You’ll have half the sub getting pissed off at you and demanding that you go to a theater in the middle of a pandemic just so the box office numbers go up. These aren’t paid promoters. These are just rabid fans marketing the shit out of this movie for no extra charge to the studio.

I could be dead wrong about all of this, but there’s something fishy about putting a “Part One” in the title sequence and then turning around and going “Is there gonna be a part two? Wellllllll that all depends on you wink wink”

Great movie btw.

Josh Brolin saying they are 'probably' starting to film part 2 next summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2dnhQglaks&t=240s

also this recent interview with Timothee and Zendaya, implying that the studios are most likely leaning to it as well https://youtu.be/CgiK8esNcXU?t=160

They seem to be teasing us, looks like it's most likely happening