Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve ThoughtBlade Runner 2049Would End His Filmmaking Career

In a few week , Dunewill finally hit dramaturgy ( and alsoHBO Max ) in North America . conductor - writerDenis Villeneuveknows how golden he is to adapt Frank Herbert ’s sci - fi epic , mostly because he did n’t consider he ’d still be directing at all afterBlade Runner 2049 .

During an episode of MTV ’s “ Happy Sad Confused ” podcast earlier this week , Villeneuve talked about how the 2017 film affected his outlook on his career . “ I knew when I did this movie I flirted with disaster , ” he allow in . Acclaimed critically though it was , it was financially a non - starter , making $ 259.3 million globally , and was basically a bomb in the United States . To him , making the Ryan Gosling - starring movie put him into “ artistic danger , ” and he was worried that he would n’t be making motion-picture show again after that . “ At least I was n’t banned from the filmmaker community , ” he quipped . “ I ’m still making flick , and you ’re still talking to me . ”

Still , whatever deficiency of fiscal winner Blade Runner 2049 had , it does n’t seem to have mattered in the prospicient run . In the four years since its release , the Blade Runner franchise has seenmultiple comedian releasesthat have expanded its world , not to note Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’sBlack Lotusanime arriving next calendar month . The enfranchisement seems to be doing fine now , as most franchises do after a few years on ice , and it ’s likely that we ’ll see another moving-picture show eventually … just perhaps not with another 40 - year gap .

Villeneuve’s road to Dune was an unsteady one.

Villeneuve’s road to Dune was an unsteady one.Image: Warner Bros.

Given how beloved properties like Dune and Blade Runner are in popping civilization , it ’s understandable how much pressure that would put on the Canadian director . While it helps provide some circumstance to his clear desire to make thatsecond Dune filmand get regard with itsspinoff serial , it does n’t amply allow him off the come-on for being so repetitive on seeing the moviein theatre of operations . Even if the movie bombs and he get out filmmaking altogether , all his work will finally strike the bosom tube .

Dune will arrive on HBO Max and in theater on October 22 .

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