"It's a very different movie from the first ones. I said to myself, 'It's a good idea to come back to this world, not by nostalgia, but by urgency, and to go there with a critical eye and the idea not to be self-indulgent.' And I said to my team that it will be a very different film. Very different. A 'Dune' movie, but with a different tone, with a different rhythm, with a different pace. And if the first movie was more of a contemplation, like a movie [about] a boy exploring a new world, and the second one being a war movie, this one is a thriller. It's more action-packed, and more tense, more muscular than two others, I would say."

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7 Comments

  1. Ghola_Mentat on

    This line left a real sour taste in my mouth:

    > given how Villeneuve is shaping up his “Dune” as a more tightly-knit tragedy that improves upon some of the flaws in Herbert’s series.

  2. If this is Dune Messiah, I can agree it being a thriller or political palace intrigue movie. Messiah was the last one before things got *weird*. Because the later Dune stories got really really strange no matter which way you slice and dice it.

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