David Lynch was happy with his director work, however surprisingly, one movie was his largest profession remorse. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker handed away on January 16, 2025, simply days earlier than his 79th birthday. In 2020, Lynch posted a video on his YouTube channel admitting that his 1984 movie, Dune, was not his greatest work regardless of its cult standing.
“I am type of happy with every thing besides Dune,” he mentioned within the video titled Do You Have a Query For David? Half 1. “I’ve appreciated a lot working in numerous mediums,” he mentioned of filming the sci-fi journey. He defined that it was not about pleasure however the enjoyment of engaged on the challenge.
Though he did not like his work on Dune, Lynch felt “fortunate” to get to expertise engaged on completely different mediums. This wasn’t the primary time that the director expressed his dissatisfaction with Dune. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he mentioned the film was a “heartache” for him.
Lynch additionally admitted that he had little interest in watching Denis Villeneuve’s current diversifications, starring Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, and Zendaya.
“I’ve advised this story a billion instances. It is not the movie I wished to make. I like sure components of it very a lot — however it was a complete failure for me,” he mentioned. Lynch revealed that he did not have full inventive management over the movie and claimed it might have turned in another way if he had the “ultimate” management.
Regardless of The Elephant Man’s dislike for the Dune franchise, the forged fondly remembered him upon his dying. Kyle MacLachlan, who performed Paul Atreidis, recalled how Lynch plucked him out of “obscurity” to star in his first and final big-budget movie.
“He clearly noticed one thing in me that even I did not acknowledge. I owe my complete profession, and life actually, to his imaginative and prescient,” the actor added. Other than Dune, the director is thought for his works in Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and Twin Peaks.