Quentin Tarantino Doesn’t Want To Watch Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune,’ Laments Hollywood’s Penchant For Remakes

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Quentin Tarantino does not care about Lisan al Gaib. More specifically, the Pulp Fiction filmmaker recently said he has no interest in watching fellow colleague Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune adaptations, as he views them as symptomatic of Hollywood’s overreliance on remixing old IP (usually in a bid to mitigate risk and maximize profit). “I saw [David Lynch’s original adaptation of] ‘Dune’ a couple of times,” he told Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) on his self-titled podcast. “I don’t need to see that story again.

I don’t need to see spice worms. I don’t need to see a movie that says the word ‘spice’ so dramatically.” The Oscar winner continued, listing other titles he has shrugged off because their material draws from trodden ground. “It’s one after another of this remake, and that remake,” he said. “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.” Certainly, Tarantino isn’t the only industry professional or cinephile who has lamented the steady stream of remakes, reboots and reimaginings that have graced both silver and small screens for the past couple of years.