Denis Villeneuve Responds to Quentin Tarantino Refusing to Watch Dune: ‘I Don’t Care’

It’s harmless to accidental that manager Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films are spectacular, some arsenic works of cinema and successful however they accommodate writer Frank Herbert’s best-selling sci-fi novels successful a mode that anyone tin bask watching, whether they are longtime oregon newfound fans. However, chap manager Quentin Tarantino expressed a deficiency of involvement successful the films, to which Villeneuve coolly replied, “I don’t care.”

Before we dive into this story, it should beryllium stated that neither party’s comments mean they harbor hard feelings for the other, careless of however severely movie Twitter wants them to propulsion disses astatine each different similar Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The sermon started past week aft Tarantino’s quality connected occurrence of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. In the interview, Tarantino revealed he’d watched David Lynch’s 1984 Dune film, starring Kyle MacLachlan, a fistful of times—and doesn’t spot the constituent successful revisiting its communicative done Villeneuve’s lens.

“I don’t request to spot that communicative again,” Tarantino said. “I don’t request to spot spice worms. I don’t request to spot a movie that says the connection ‘spice’ truthful dramatically.”

While there’s immoderate consciousness of irony successful Tarantino’s adoration for Lynch’s film, considering Lynch wants thing to bash with it, Tarantino further elaborated his constituent by contextualizing it arsenic portion of his wide fatigue with remakes successful Hollywood, utilizing FX’s Shōgun as different example.

“I saw Shogun successful the ’80s. I watched each 13 hours. I’m good. I don’t request to spot that communicative again, I don’t attraction however they bash it,” Tarantino continued. “I don’t attraction if they instrumentality maine and enactment maine successful past Japan successful a clip machine. I don’t care, I’ve seen the story.”

But of course, headlines thin to beryllium wherever the bulk of readers halt paying attraction and sensationalize what is simply a beauteous tame instrumentality into a damning statement. Thankfully, a funny scholar crossed beyond the grabby header and asked Villeneuve for his instrumentality connected Tarantino’s comments during a caller Q&A with movie students astatine Montreal’s Concordia University.

According to the Gazette, Villeneuve’s humorous “I don’t care” led to a batch of laughter successful the room. Villeneuve past dove into however helium agrees and disagrees with Tarantino’s take.

“It’s true, I hold with him that I don’t similar this thought of recycling and bringing backmost aged ideas,” Villeneuve said. “But wherever I disagree is that what I did was not a remake. It’s an adaptation of the book. I spot this arsenic an original. But we are precise antithetic quality beings.”

With Villeneuve’s 3rd Dune film, Dune Messiah, connected the horizon, there’s a glimmer of anticipation that Tarantino volition task into theaters (or wherever helium prefers to ticker cinema) to cheque it retired and spot however it volition adapt storylines beyond the scope of Lynch’s cult-classic film.

Dune Messiah does not yet person a merchandise date, but early signs constituent to December 2026. In the meantime, prequel bid Dune: Prophecy premieres November 17 connected HBO and Max.

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