Whitney Vasquez
Quentin Tarantino will not watch any of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies because he’s sick and tired of remakes.
While appearing on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” this week, the Oscar winner, 61, was asked if he believed “Dune: Part Two” was the best movie of the year as many have claimed.
Tarantino couldn’t chime in because he’s never seen the flick featuring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Florence Pugh and Austin Butler — and has no plans to.
“I saw [David Lynch’s] ‘Dune’ a couple of times. I don’t need to see that story again,” Tarantino exclaimed. “I don’t need to see spice worms. I don’t need to see a movie that says the word ‘spice’ so dramatically.”
The Hollywood film director enjoyed David Lynch’s 1984 movie, based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel of the same name; however, he expressed his lack of interest in Villeneuve’s remakes: “Dune” (2021), “Dune: Part Two” (2024) and “Dune Messiah,” said to be the third and final film in the series. The trilogy was confirmed earlier this year.
The filmmaker — whose hits include everything from “Pulp Fiction” and “Kill Bill: Part One” and “Kill Bill: Part Two” to “Reservoir Dogs,” “Django Unchained” and “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” — is exhausted of the same old stories in Tinseltown.
“It’s one after another of this remake and that remake,” Tarantino said on Tuesday’s episode of the podcast.
His exhaustion is nothing personal against Villeneuve. He feels that way about all reboots.
“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 explained.
Tarantino has directed nine films in his career, none of which were remakes.
“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,” he added. “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.”
The Post has reached out to Villeneuve for comment.
“Dune: Part Two” brought in $182.5 million worldwide during its debut weekend, with legendary Steven Spielberg even gushing over the flick.
“You have made one of the most brilliant science-fiction films I’ve ever seen,” Spielberg told Villeneuve at the Directors Guild of America panel in March.
Tarantino might not be interested in remakes but the filmmaker has expressed his plan to make his tenth movie his last, recently dropping “The Movie Critic” as his final flick.
“I’ve been doing it for a long time,” he explained. “I’ve been doing it for 30 years, and it’s time to wrap up the show,” he told CNN in 2022.
“I’m an entertainer: I want to leave you wanting more and not just work – and I don’t want to work to diminishing returns,” Tarantino shared.
“I don’t want to become this old man who’s out of touch, when already I’m feeling a bit like an old man out of touch when it comes to the current movies that are out right now.”
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