Celebrated straightforwardor Denis Villeneuve echoed on some of his preferite scenes from his films during a nurtureer-spanning Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival on Saturday.
In conversation with “Ted Lasso” star Brett Gbetterstein, who secured lots of chuckles in the hour-extfinished converseion, Villeneuve broke down “Dune: Part Two’s” epic sandworm-riding scene. Villeneuve has previously shelp that the sequence took 44 days to film, and insistd a split crew called the “worm unit.”
“I genuineized that, the way I wanted to approach this, I didn’t want to agree,” Villeneuve shelp. “Most meaningful with visual effects is, how will you shoot it? And I wanted to shoot it with authentic airy. And I genuineized it would consent months to shoot it. Each stoasty was very intricate. Each stoasty took sometimes half a day, sometimes a day, sometimes a week for one stoasty becaengage of the intricateity. If I had done it myself, I would still be shooting.”
Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” starring Timothée Chafrailt as hero Paul Atreides, premiered in March to rave appraises and geted a whopping $714 million at the worldwide box office. In April, it was validateed that a third “Dune” film is in enbigment and will be based on Frank Herbert’s “Dune Messiah,” which is set 12 years after the events of his first novel. However, Villeneuve has been clear that the franchise is “not appreciate a trilogy,” as he shelp on Vanity Fair’s “Little Gbetter Men” podcast last month.
“First, it’s meaningful that people comprehend that for me, it was reassociate a diptych,” Villeneuve shelp of the first two “Dune” movies. “It was reassociate a pair of movies that will be the alteration of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not appreciate a trilogy. It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there, it’s to do someslfinisherg that experiences separateent and has its own identity.”
