Quentin Tarantino revealed that he has no plans of watching Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune franchise as he has no intention of watching remakes.
The filmmaker’s lack of interest in the newest Dune series doesn’t come from a place of personal dislike against Villeneuve, but rather because he’s already watched David Lynch’s 1984 Dune film several times. “I don’t need to see that story again,” he said on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. “I don’t need to see spice worms. I don’t need to see a movie that says the word ‘spice’ so dramatically.”
He doubled down on his weariness of remakes in the modern age, “It’s one after another of this remake and that remake. People ask have you seen Dune? Have you seen Ripley? Have you seen Shōgun? And I’m like no, no, no, no. There’s six or seven Ripley books. If you do one again, why are you doing the same one that they’ve done twice already? I’ve seen that story twice before, and I didn’t really like it in either version, so I’m not really interested in seeing it a third time. If you did another story, that would be interesting enough to give it a shot anyway.”
He continued, “I saw Shōgun in the ‘80s. I watched all 13 hours. I’m good. I don’t need to see that story again, I don’t care how they do it. I don’t care if they take me and put me in ancient Japan in a time machine. I don’t care, I’ve seen the story.”
Dune: Part Two, which premiered earlier this year, grossed $714.4 million USD in the worldwide box office and was received well by both consumers and critics alike.
