Dune Reboot Won't Draw from David Lynch's Adaptation

Director Denis Villeneuve claims his novel take onDunewill be totally dissimilar from David Lynch ’s 1984 moving-picture show . While Lynch is the famed filmmaker behind moving picture and television shows such asMulholland Drive , Blue VelvetandTwin Peaks , Duneis often considered his weakest directorial effort .

WithDunethe director had to condense Frank Herbert ’s epic novel down to a 2 - hour experience , but despite some stunning visuals , his adaptation is unremarkably regarded as a muddled mess . Lynch has since disowned the film , rarely talk of it in consultation . The motion picture was drive out of his hand by producers during editing , and the experience call on him off from working on big budget studio motion-picture show .

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Acclaimed filmmaker Denis Villeneuve is now sequester to a raw adaptation - and in an audience withYahoo ! , he let out his imagination will have nothing to do with Lynch ’s . Villeneuve is a huge fan of Herbert ’s novel and is currently working on the script for the forthcoming reboot :

“ David Lynch did an adaption in the ’ eighty that has some very strong qualities , I mean David Lynch is one of the best filmmakers alive , I have monumental respect for him . But when I saw his version I was impressed , but it was not what I had dream of , so I ’m stress to make the adaptation of my dreams .

rather , Villeneuve will be go from scratch and drawing on the leger as intake for how the motion picture will look :

“ It will not have any data link with the David Lynch movie . I ’m going back to the book , and run low to the image that came out when I read it . ”

Villeneuve has had quite the creative run in late years , directing applaud movies such asArrival , EnemyandSicario . While Villeneuve ’s sequelBlade Runner 2049may have go bad to print at the box office , it was critically applaud and is considered a worthy follow - up to the classic original . While the director was ostensibly in the running game forJames Bond 25 , it seemshis committal toDunehas ruled him out of the problem .

While Villeneuve is undoubtedly a great choice , Dunehas become a notoriously tricky project to adapt for the big screen . Before Villeneuve became confiscate , Peter Berg and Pierre Morel both spent year trying to get a young interlingual rendition made , and even prior to Lynch ’s movie , filmmakers like Ridley Scott and Alejandro Jodorowsky tried and failed to mount adaption . Duneisn’t the wanton Word to adapt give the amount of character and CRO of the story - but if any filmmaker can do it DoJ , it ’s Villeneuve .

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