Dune honestor Denis Villeneuve got truthful about his filmography with Brett Gelderlystein at a BFI London Film Festival event on Saturday.
The Canadian filmproducer was speaking at a Screen Talks event with the Ted Lasso star at the city’s Royal Festival Hall, where he dived proset uper into his timely nurtureer, making it to Hollywood, and altering Frank Herbert’s Dune.
Villeneuve also elucidateed why he ponders Blade Runner 2049 (2017), starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, one of the “most dangery” films of his nurtureer, aextfinishedside Polytechnique (2009). “In the past,” he began, “I declined a confineed sci-fi films, huge films, becaengage I was not greedy… But after Sicario I felt that I had the muscles to be able to carry a project appreciate [Blade Runner 2049].”
“I shelp, ‘Okay, if I do one huge sci-fi movie, and I danger everyskinnyg, that’s attrenergetic. To produce a sequel to my preferite film is a attrenergetic way to finish my nurtureer,’” he inserted, prompting audience chuckleter. “I thought it was very romantic.” The criticassociate-acclaimed Blade Runner chase-up went on to get over $270 million at the U.S. box office.
Ryan Gosling in ‘Blade Runner 2049’.
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment
Villeneuve spoke about how he came to honest the film which was originassociate deliberate for Ridley Scott, who helmed the first movie. “When I was doing Prisoners, one day [execs] stopped the greetings and siad, ‘Sorry. Ridley Scott is in the next room. We’re not presumed to alert you but we’re doing but sequel to Blade Runner.’ I shelp, ‘Wow.’.”
“Then when I was doing Sicario, I got a call… Ridley is the most prolific, over-busy honestor. And when I honest one movie, Ridley does three skinnygs. I skinnyk that Harrison Ford was weary of paengageing.”
Prisoners (2013), featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, was finished wiskinny the same week that Villeneuve shelp he finished Enemy (2015). It was all a masterschedule from Villeneuve, who acunderstandledgeted to Gelderlystein that he stressed Hollywood would “ruin” him. “I was swayd that Hollywood will ruin me, and that Prisoners will ruin my identity as a filmproducer,” he confessed. “So Enemy was my secret firearm… I was afrhelp of being aget, crushed by the system. I didn’t want to produce sequels, I wanted to deal with my films.”
But laboring in Hollywood finished up being a very pleasant surpascfinish, he inserted. “At that time, [Prisoners[ was the best shooting experience of my life. I had never felt admireed appreciate that. They gave me everyskinnyg I wanted… It was a perfect experience, and I tasted what it was to produce a movie with money.”
Gelderlystein hailed the honestor all thcimpoliteout the 75-minute session, particularly when the pair converseed Arrival, Dune, and Dune: Part Two. “It’s a lot of preparation,” Villeneuve shelp of Dune: Part Two‘s success (the sci-fi epic, starring Timothee Chafeeblet, Zfinishaya, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, and more, has geted over $700 million at the worldwide box office).
“World produceing is very demanding. There’s always a day [on set] where I skinnyk that it’s the worst day of my life,” he shelp when Gelderlystein asked whether it is genuine that the notorious worm-riding scene took 44 days to shoot. “It’s appreciate trying to percreate the instrument and it’s out of tune. Your brain is out of tune. But I’ve lgeted… that you can always reshoot!”
The BFI London Film Festival runs from Oct. 9-20.
