Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve defends controversial detail about new movie

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Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve has waded into an more and more controversial movie debate forward of the discharge of his long-awaited movie sequel.

The filmmaker, whose credit embrace Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, is busy selling his new movie, which is receiving acclaim from critics, together with The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey, who awarded the movie 5 stars out of 5.

During a new interview, he was challenged about the runtime of the Dune sequel, which stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, and is lastly being launched in March after being delayed because of the Hollywood strikes in 2023.

In the final 10 years, movies have gotten longer and longer, with many repeatedly questioning on social media whether or not these elevated lengths are obligatory.

Recent movies to have been on the centre of such debate embrace Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which final for 3 hours and three hours, half-hour, respectidely.

One one who thinks this argument is foolish is Villeneuve, whose Dune 2 has a runtime of two hours, 46 minutes.

When requested about the runtime in a new interview, Villeneuve stated that the movie’s distributor, Warner Bros Pictures, didn’t inform him to chop the movie down, saying “it was almost the opposite”.

But Villeneuve is undeterred by complaints that blockbusters today are too lengthy, telling The Times: “I trust the audience”.

Defending the new movie’s runtime, he stated that the story, tailored from Frank Herbert’s novel, is “too dense” to inform in a extra expedient method.

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“This was the only way I could succeed,”he stated, including: (*2*)

Villenueve argued that, whereas many individuals is likely to be pissed off at lengthier runtimes, younger individuals right this moment really need movies to be longer.

He stated: “There is a trend. The youth love to watch long movies because if they pay, they want to see something substantial. They are craving meaningful content.”

It was present in 2023 that the common size of the prime 10 highest-grossing films within the US and Canada was two hours and 23 minutes – virtually half-hour greater than the common recorded in 2020.

Addressing whether or not there might be a 3rd Dune movie, Villenueve stated: “There is absolutely a desire to have a third one, but I don’t want to rush it.

He said that when it comes to making another sequel, titled Dune: Messiah, he will take his time as “the danger in Hollywood is that people get excited and only think about release dates, not quality”.

Dune: Part 2 is being launched in cinemas on 1 March.