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Director Denis Villeneuve has wowed audiences and critics with his films Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. Now he is currently working on his film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune, and we couldn’t be more excited about it!
During a recent interview with CinemaBlend, Villeneuve’s frequent collaborator David Dastmalchian, talks about this new adaptation of Dune and says that will “honor everything” that Herbert loaded into his story:
“I can’t really discuss much about the script or the plot itself, but I can just tell you that that old phrase ‘true to the spirit’ or ‘honoring the spirit of’ [applies]. Quite honestly I haven’t even seen the most recent [version] of the script, but in the way Denis has talked about the film and what I’ve seen, it’s absolutely true to and in honor of everything that Frank put into the novel…...
Director Denis Villeneuve has wowed audiences and critics with his films Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. Now he is currently working on his film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune, and we couldn’t be more excited about it!
During a recent interview with CinemaBlend, Villeneuve’s frequent collaborator David Dastmalchian, talks about this new adaptation of Dune and says that will “honor everything” that Herbert loaded into his story:
“I can’t really discuss much about the script or the plot itself, but I can just tell you that that old phrase ‘true to the spirit’ or ‘honoring the spirit of’ [applies]. Quite honestly I haven’t even seen the most recent [version] of the script, but in the way Denis has talked about the film and what I’ve seen, it’s absolutely true to and in honor of everything that Frank put into the novel…...
- 6/5/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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