Quentin Tarantino is among the most beloved movie administrators of our time, particularly for Pulp Fiction (which just lately turned 30). The filmmaker can be well-known for having sturdy takes about standard motion pictures recently, akin to saying he’d by no means see extra Toy Story motion pictures after the third one and saying he “actually, actually appreciated” Joker 2. Tarantino additionally revealed just lately that he’ll by no means watch Denis Villeneuve’s Dune motion pictures, and the director has now responded.
When Quentin Tarantino was on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast final week, the filmmaker shared that he’d but to see both Dune motion pictures helmed by Villeneuve and wasn’t planning on it as a result of he’d already seen David Lynch’s model from 1984. Tarantino mentioned he “didn’t have to see any extra spice worms” and in a broader sense just isn’t concerned about remakes. Right here’s how Villeneuve reacted:
I don’t care. It’s true. I agree with him that I don’t like this concept of recycling and bringing again previous concepts. 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.
The Dune director, who has additionally made acclaimed movies like Arrival, Sicario and Blade Runner 2049 was requested about Quentin Tarantino’s feedback whereas chatting with movie college students at Concordia College in Montreal (by way of The Gazette). Villeneuve additionally mentioned this:
However we’re very totally different human beings.
Villeneuve was respectful towards Quentin Tarantino’s standpoint, sharing that he agrees that he’s uninterested in recycling previous concepts, however from his perspective, his Dune motion pictures are usually not a remake of David Lynch’s Dune movie. If Tarantino watched the three motion pictures collectively, certainly he would discover the stark variations between Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s materials and Lynch’s. However on the finish of the day, Villeneuve doesn’t care what the man director thinks, most likely due to all of the love his variations of the story has supplied to audiences and himself as an artist already.
Tarantino’s current feedback additionally had the director calling out Hulu’s Shōgun and Netflix’s Ripley for being remakes that he’s not concerned about both. He shared his level additional by saying he doesn’t care “how they do it” or, in Shōgun’s case “take me and put me in historic Japan in a time machine,” as a result of he’s already seen a model of the story instructed in a method he’s completely happy to skip them. Clearly Tarantino is a purist in relation to authentic tales, and if he and Villeneuve ever meet, certainly there’d be an fascinating dialog available about their differing beliefs.
The latest Dune film, Dune: Half Two, is among the most critically acclaimed motion pictures of the yr and one in every of its greatest crowd-pleasers. Though it was launched in March, it stays No. 4 of 2024’s highest-grossing motion pictures at $714 million in field workplace gross sales worldwide. Villenueve is presently writing Dune 3 following this success. Regardless of Quentin Tarantino’s ideas on the Dune motion pictures, the current second movie continues to be being hailed as probably the greatest 2024 motion pictures up to now.