When requested whether or not he felt happy along with his diversifications to date, Villeneuve expressed how everybody’s pleasure towards the enterprise was understandably laced with anxious hesitation, and the worry of failure:
“I’ve combined emotions. Once I launched into this adaptation, the primary artist I approached was Hans Zimmer, and as a lot as we have been excited by the prospect, I keep in mind him asking me, ‘Is it a good suggestion to attempt to convey our childhood desires to the display? Are we meant to fail?'”
Nonetheless, with each “Dune” and “Dune: Half Two,” it’s amply clear that Villeneuve engages with Herbert’s novels with honest ardour, mirrored within the sheer scale and scope of a world that feels vibrant because of the warring intricacies of its characters versus simply its aesthetics. Villeneuve states that “some moments” have lived as much as his childhood self’s imaginative and prescient, whereas the remainder is one thing he’s nonetheless adjusting to:
“…There have been many moments with the Fremen and Harkonnens which are near my dream and would have happy me as a teen. There are different issues that I modified due to the method of adaptation, so it’s going to take me years to digest all this. It was probably the most difficult expertise of my life, technically and cinematically, however I nonetheless get up within the morning feeling blessed that I had the possibility to make this adaptation.”
Though a attainable “Dune: Half Three” is at the moment not written in stone, Villeneuve needs to circle again to this after engaged on different long-in-the-works initiatives, equivalent to “Rendezvous with Rama,” based mostly on Arthur C. Clarke’s novel of the identical identify. Let’s hope he feels a bit much less combined about that undertaking after it is accomplished.