Denis Villeneuve Responds to Quentin Tarantino Refusing to Watch Dune: ‘I Do not Care’

It’s protected to say that director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films are spectacular, each as works of cinema and in how they adapt writer Frank Herbert’s best-selling sci-fi novels in a means that anybody can take pleasure in watching, whether or not they’re longtime or newfound followers. Nevertheless, fellow director Quentin Tarantino expressed a scarcity of curiosity within the movies, to which Villeneuve coolly replied, “I don’t care.”

Earlier than we dive into this story, it must be said that neither occasion’s feedback imply they harbor onerous emotions for the opposite, no matter how badly movie Twitter desires them to throw disses at one another like Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The discourse began final week after Tarantino’s look on episode of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. Within the interview, Tarantino revealed he’d watched David Lynch’s 1984 Dune film, starring Kyle MacLachlan, a handful of instances—and doesn’t see the purpose in revisiting its story via Villeneuve’s lens.

“I don’t must see that story once more,” Tarantino mentioned. “I don’t must see spice worms. I don’t must see a film that claims the phrase ‘spice’ so dramatically.”

Whereas there’s some sense of irony in Tarantino’s adoration for Lynch’s movie, contemplating Lynch wants nothing to do with it, Tarantino additional elaborated his level by contextualizing it as a part of his common fatigue with remakes in Hollywood, utilizing FX’s Shōgun as one other instance.

“I noticed Shogun within the ’80s. I watched all 13 hours. I’m good. I don’t must see that story once more, I don’t care how they do it,” Tarantino continued. “I don’t care in the event that they take me and put me in historical Japan in a time machine. I don’t care, I’ve seen the story.”

However in fact, headlines are typically the place the vast majority of readers cease paying consideration and sensationalize what’s a reasonably tame take right into a damning assertion. Fortunately, a curious reader crossed past the grabby headline and requested Villeneuve for his tackle Tarantino’s feedback throughout a latest Q&A with movie college students at Montreal’s Concordia College.

According to the Gazette, Villeneuve’s humorous “I don’t care” led to a number of laughter within the room. Villeneuve then dove into how he agrees and disagrees with Tarantino’s take.

“It’s true, I agree with him that I don’t like this concept of recycling and bringing again previous concepts,” Villeneuve mentioned. “However the place I disagree is that what I did was not a remake. It’s an adaptation of the e-book. I see this as an authentic. However we’re very completely different human beings.”

With Villeneuve’s third Dune movie, Dune Messiah, on the horizon, there’s a glimmer of hope that Tarantino will enterprise into theaters (or wherever he prefers to observe cinema) to test it out and see the way it will adapt storylines past the scope of Lynch’s cult-classic movie.

Dune Messiah doesn’t but have a launch date, however early signs point to December 2026. Within the meantime, prequel sequence Dune: Prophecy premieres November 17 on HBO and Max.

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