Denis Villeneuve Knows Deadpool & Wolverine's Popcorn Bucket Can't Compare to Shai-Hulussy

These days, movie theatre owners volition bash astir thing to lure fans backmost to the large screen—and elaborately themed popcorn buckets person go an important portion of that strategy. Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine excitedly revealed its bucket successful May, and portion it’s sufficiently lurid, it’s inactive not rather arsenic startlingly provocative as the 1 that came out with Dune: Part Two.

Perhaps that’s due to the fact that the Dune bucket, which io9 has affectionately referred to arsenic “Shai-Hulussy” and “Wormussy” for evident reasons, appeared without immoderate fanfare or, incredibly, any consciousness that fans would presumption its sandworm-mouth introduction constituent with prurient amusement. Naturally, viral notoriety instantly followed.

Nobody with a consciousness of wit tin complain, though; Dune: Part Two was an adjacent bigger deed than its predecessor, earning captious raves for the movie arsenic good arsenic a spot successful taste past for what’s inactive the eventual novelty popcorn bucket tie-in. Sorry, Deadpool & Wolverine, but adjacent Villeneuve knows he’s inactive the champ here. Check retired this cheeky red-carpet interrogation helium did earlier successful June with eTalkCTV:

“They are tremendously jealous of our bucket,” helium joked portion looking astatine a photograph of the Deadpool & Wolverine release. “They are doing their champion to effort and bring thing horrific to the world. But the Dune bucket is unmatchable.” He rapidly adds that’s nary flimsy against Marvel’s bucket; it’s simply the information that “the Dune bucket was 1 of a kind.”

Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters July 26; Dune: Part Two is streaming connected Max.

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