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 creator 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. Nonetheless, 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 acknowledged that neither get together’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 occasions—and doesn’t see the purpose in revisiting its story by Villeneuve’s lens.

“I don’t have to see that story once more,” Tarantino stated. “I don’t have to see spice worms. I don’t have to 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 basic 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 have to 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 after all, headlines are usually 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 current Q&A with movie college students at Montreal’s Concordia College.

According to the Gazette, Villeneuve’s humorous “I don’t care” led to quite a lot 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 outdated concepts,” Villeneuve stated. “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 totally 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 look at 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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