That teenager in me is totalitarian and I had to please those dreams. I’m dealing with the pressure of the dreams I had as a teenager. “With ‘Blade Runner’ I had to be respectful of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece. “With ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Dune,’ it’s two different pressures,” Villeneuve said. In an interview last year, Villeneuve discussed how different it was to tackle “Blade Runner 2049” and “Dune.” and Legendary Entertainment will greenlight the next film in his intended two-part “Dune” adaptation. Should “Dune” perform well enough, Warner Bros. theaters and HBO Max on October 22 and has already begun rolling out overseas to impressive box office numbers. The director’s “ Dune” adaptation arrives in U.S. Villeneuve is still very much making movies, and huge ones at that. Wes Anderson's Best Shots: 30 Perfect Images That Define His Career Oscars 2022: Best Original Score PredictionsĢ021 Emmy Predictions: Who Will Win at the Primetime Emmy Awards? 'Dune,' 'The Power of the Dog,' and 'The Last Duel' Find Strength in Home Audiences I was told, ‘You don’t do that.’ Just the fact that I’m still here making movies, for me…at least I wasn’t banned from the filmmaker community.
That was walking, as Christopher Nolan said to me once…walking on sacred territory. “I put myself into massive artistic danger.
“I knew that when I did this movie I flirted with disaster,” the filmmaker continued. As Villeneuve said: “The miracle for me about ‘Blade Runner 2049’ is the following: I’m still making movies and you’re still talking to me.” “2049” is said to have cost Alcon Entertainment at least $80 million.
The film was a box office bomb in the United States, failing to cross the $100 million mark despite a production and marketing budget that was reportedly over $300 million. Denis Villeneuve has previously opened up about “ Blade Runner 2049” misfiring at the box office, and he told MTV’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast this week that he’s genuinely relieved he is still able to make movies after that experience.