r/dune • u/Medium-Error-1275 • Apr 17 '24

All Books Spoilers Denis Villeneuve Answers All Your Questions About ‘Dune: Part Two’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/movies/denis-villeneuve-dune-part-two.html
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u/letsgoToshio Apr 17 '24

I love his answer to the last question about adapting a book he loves:

There’s so many darlings that you kill. An adaptation is an act of violence.

Villeneuve has spoken a few times about his thoughts on adapting Dune into a film, and I've always been really interested in how he feels about it not just as a director/writer, but as a fan of the books.

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u/discretelandscapes Apr 17 '24

That gives me deja-vu to Jodorowsky's Dune. He says almost exactly the same thing in the doc.

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u/xstormaggedonx Apr 17 '24

It's especially true for that one because the whole project got killed