Still, Villeneuve faced the challenge of succeeding where others had failed. And then in the third paragraph of this article, Denis had said it was his dream to direct this movie. I didn’t want to develop a script because I wanted it to be the filmmakers’ vision. “We hadn’t even started to develop the script. By chance, she read the interview, and reached out to Villeneuve.
“It never happened like this before and it probably never will again,” Parent says now. Across town, Mary Parent had just brought the rights to Legendary, the company she would eventually join to become its vice chair of worldwide production.
In an interview, almost as an aside, he disclosed that Dune had been the film he always wanted to make. But Villeneuve may be the Kwisatz Haderach of this story-the chosen one sealed by fate-because in relatively rapid fire in 2016, the planets aligned to put him in charge of his dream project. That might have been the end of the tale. “I remember coming out and telling myself somebody will do it in the future again.” So, he waited and waited, hearing rumors about attempts that all seemed to fizzle, and nobody ever got into production with a new adaptation. He was disappointed, admiring parts of it, but feeling frustrated by its deviations from the source material. Villeneuve had seen Lynch’s version of Dune on its initial release, not long after he first read the book. As I grew up, I rediscovered it through the years, because it’s the kind of book where every time you read it, you discover something new according to your life experience.” “Reading the book was a visceral experience,” he remembers of that first encounter. announced its entire slate would stream on HBO Max concurrently with a theatrical release-if the latter was even a possibility at all.Īnd it’s especially a victory for the 13-year-old kid from Quebec who first read Dune and could scarcely believe he might one day get the chance to combine his passion for it with his love for movies. It’s also a victory because of the landscape cinema found itself in when the pandemic shuttered theaters the world over, and Warner Bros. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to adapt the book resulted only in a definitive documentary about the folly of it all some 40 years after the fact, and David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation is much-maligned, especially by the director himself. It’s a victory for Villeneuve-and for Legendary Pictures who set the course for a new adaptation of Dune by picking up the rights only a short while before appointing the director not just because Dune has a rocky history on the big screen. People were moved to tears to be back in theaters.
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“We made the movie for that kind of experience, and people really embraced it. “I felt the appetite for people to go back to the theaters, to be together and to watch movies, to go back to the theatrical experience,” he says now. Dune: Part One became the biggest opening of his career, Warner Bros.’ biggest opening of the pandemic era, and a reminder for audiences the world over of the power of cinema. It’s not quite that he can finally relax-in fact, he says, he’s already deep into prep on the second chapter of his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi tome-but rather that the many dice he’s been rolling for the better part of the last five years have finally come to rest and he can be reasonably confident in declaring victory. At the end of the process, with a follow-up having been announced, Villeneuve, producer Mary Parent and the cast of Dune tell Joe Utichi why the journey to Arrakis was worth the effort.Ī few weeks past the domestic release of Dune, Denis Villeneuve is in a reflective mood. But a complex narrative and the difficulty of shooting a blockbuster in the scorching deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan became the least of the challenges when a global pandemic threatened to disrupt the movie’s chance to screen in theaters. Against all the odds, Denis Villeneuve has delivered the definitive adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 classic novel Dune.
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