The 'Dune' director doesn't agree with Warner Bros.' call to release the film in theaters and on HBOMax simultaneously. “I think it was a bad decision. I designed the movie to be seen in the theater.'
Based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel, the film features an all-star cast led by Timothée Chalamet as the preternaturally gifted young nobleman Paul Atreides coming of age on the hostile desert planet of Arrakis. Barren to the naked eye, the desert is rich in resources guarded by monstrous sandworms large enough to consume a small village in one gulp. The film also stars Rebecca Ferguson as Paul’s sorceress mother, Lady Jessica Atreides, and Oscar Isaac as his father, Duke Leto Atreides.
That’s right, two movies. But rather than shoot both simultaneously, Warner Bros. chose to wait before greenlighting Part 2. But with global box office hitting nearly $400 million, giving the go-ahead for the second half of the story was an easy call. Villeneuve expresses great reverence for Lynch as well as eccentric filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose proposed 12-hour adaptation of the book starring Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali and Orson Welles never got off the ground in the 1970s.
From a middle-class family of six in Gentilly, in the Canadian province of Quebec, Villeneuve and his younger brother Martin both grew up to be filmmakers. Denis had stepped away from filmmaking after experiencing some success in the 1990s with his directorial debut, “August 32nd on Earth,” featured in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, and his follow-up, “Maelström,” winning Best Canadian Film at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.
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