Denis Villeneuve rebuffs Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Dune’ criticism: ‘I don’t care’

Quentin Tarantino is not known for pulling his punches, and his caller remarks astir Denis Villeneuve’s caller Dune movies are nary exception. Tarantino explained that he refuses to watch nan caller movies because he’s already seen David Lynch’s type of nan story.

During a Q&A astatine Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema successful Montreal, Quebec, Villeneuve offered a consequence to nan Oscar-winning director.

“I don’t care,” he said, apparently arsenic nan room erupted successful laughter, according to The Montreal Gazette. “It’s true. I work together pinch him that I don’t for illustration this thought of recycling and bringing backmost aged ideas. But wherever I disagree is that what I did was not a remake. It’s an adjustment of nan book. I spot this arsenic an original.”

Villeneuve added that he and Tarantino are “very different quality beings.”

This full backmost and distant started aft Tarantino appeared connected Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast and explained that he doesn’t consciousness immoderate request to spot the Dune story again. 

“I saw [David Lynch’s] Dune a mates of times. I don’t request to spot that communicative again,” he explained. “I don’t request to spot herb worms. I don’t request to spot a movie that says nan connection ‘spice’ truthful dramatically.”

“It’s 1 aft different of this remake and that remake,” Tarantino added. “People inquire person you seen Dune? Have you seen Ripley? Have you seen Shōgun?” And I’m for illustration no, no, no, no. There’s six aliases 7 Ripley books. If you do 1 again, why are you doing nan aforesaid 1 that they’ve done doubly already? I’ve seen that communicative doubly before, and I didn’t really for illustration it successful either version, truthful I’m not really willing successful seeing it a 3rd time. If you did different story, that would beryllium absorbing capable to springiness it a changeable anyway.”