David Lynch will “never watch” Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movie
By Dan Selcke
David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune is the only film he’s not proud of making, and he’d just as soon no one ever the series to him again.
David is the creative genius behind great films and TV shows like Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. The guy has a free ride with movie nerds for the rest of his life. Even his failures, most notably his 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, are entertaining.
That said, his Dune movie was a failure, and Lynch would be the first person to tell you that. “I’m proud of everything except Dune,” he once said in a YouTube Q&A. It comes down to him not having final cut on the movie; he even asked that his name be removed from the final product, to no avail. “[T]he thing was a horrible sadness and failure to me,” he said on another occasion. He isn’t a fan.
And that distaste extends to the series in general, not just his take on it. For instance, might he ever watch director Denis Villeneuve’s version of Dune, which premiered in theaters in 2021 and which has a sequel finishing off the first book on the way? Speaking to Cahiers du Cinema, Lynch was characteristically blunt: “I will never watch it, and I don’t even want you to tell me about it, ever.”
It doesn’t get much clearer than that. Dune: Part II is due out on November 3 of this year. If you think you see David Lynch in the theater, know that it’s just an older guy in a suit and swooping white hair, cause the real thing will be sitting it out.
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