Denis Villeneuve has offered a response to Quentin Tarantino, saying he would never watch Dune or Dune: Part 2.
During a Q&A session with students at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Villeneuve claimed he didn’t care what Tarantino had to say about his films and said the works he put out were original, according to Variety. Tarantino said during a conversation earlier this month with The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast that he’s not interested in watching the Dune films because remakes aren’t his thing and that he’s familiar with the franchise thanks to David Lynch’s 1984 film adaptation.
“I don’t care,” said Villeneuve during the Q&A session. “It’s true. I agree with him that I don’t like this idea of recycling and bringing back old ideas. But where I disagree is that what I did was not a remake. It’s an adaptation of the book. I see this as an original.”
Villeneuve also claimed that he was a completely different person from Tarantino therefore they have different interests. Tarantino made it clear how much he didn’t care to see something that was already done with Lynch’s film starring Patrick Stewart, Kyle MacLachlan and more.
“It’s one after another of this remake and that remake,” said Tarantino on the podcast. “People ask have you seen ‘Dune’? Have you seen ‘Ripley?’ Have you seen ‘Shōgun’?” And I’m like no, no, no, no. There’s six or seven Ripley books. If you do one again, why are you doing the same one that they’ve done twice already?”
He added, “I’ve seen that story twice before, and I didn’t really like it in either version, so I’m not really interested in seeing it a third time. If you did another story, that would be interesting enough to give it a shot anyway.”
The final installment in the trilogy is set to come sooner than audiences expect. Villeneuve told Deadline he’s getting behind the camera “faster than I think.”
