GQ’s Adam Baidawi and Zach Baron with Denis Villeneuve“I feel light,” the director of the year told Baron, then added, “Numb.” He was still processing Dune’s end, he said—while also coming to grips with closing the book on “the most rewarding, inspiring, and best ten years of my life as a filmmaker.”Villeneuve’s first two Dune films have raked in more than a billion dollars at the box office.
Part Three appears likely to nearly double that when it hits theaters (and locks up most of the world’s IMAX screens) a week before Christmas.
But at one point during his conversation with Baron, the director pushed back gently on the notion of these movies as a “franchise.”“There was nothing industrial in the way they were made,” Villeneuve said.
They were the work of “a bunch of friends”—a familial crew, out in the desert putting things together.
GQ’s Adam Baidawi and Zach Baron with Denis Villeneuve
“I feel light,” the director of the year told Baron, then added, “Numb.” He was still processing Dune’s end, he said—while also coming to grips with closing the book on “the most rewarding, inspiring, and best ten years of my life as a filmmaker.”
Villeneuve’s first two Dune films have raked in more than a billion dollars at the box office. Part Three appears likely to nearly double that when it hits theaters (and locks up most of the world’s IMAX screens) a week before Christmas. But at one point during his conversation with Baron, the director pushed back gently on the notion of these movies as a “franchise.”
“There was nothing industrial in the way they were made,” Villeneuve said. They were the work of “a bunch of friends”—a familial crew, out in the desert putting things together.
