David Lynch He has repeatedly expressed his disgust with the ‘Dune’ movie that he directed in 1984, to the point that many of us thought that he simply hated it. However, it seems that now he has softened her stance towards her, for until has shown a tendency to carry out a new assembly of it.
The director of ‘Mulholland Drive’ has recently granted an interview to AV Club on the occasion of the release of the remastered version of ‘Inland Empire’ and at a certain point they ask him if he considered making a new montage of the film. Quickly dismissing it, Lynch did. enters to assess the case of ‘Dune’:
People have said, “Don’t you want to go back and play Dune?” And I was so depressed and grossed out by it, you know? I loved everyone I worked with; they were fantastic. I loved all the actors; I loved the team; I loved working in Mexico; I loved everything except that I didn’t have the final cut. And even loved Dino [De Laurentiis], which did not give me what I wanted. And Raffaella, the producer, who was her daughter, loved her. But the thing was a horrible sadness and failure for me, and if I could go back I thought, well, maybe I’d go back into it.
Why have you changed your mind?
Surprising statements by Lynch, who then comments that he would be interested, but that “it’s not going to happen“, implying that nobody was going to finance it, and also pointing out the following about his experience with ‘Dune’ and why until now he had not been open to this possibility:
Yes, I wanted to leave. I always say, and it’s true, that with Dune I sold myself before finishing. It’s not like there’s a ton of gold sitting in vaults waiting to be cut and mended. It’s like, from the beginning I knew what Dino wanted and what he could do and what he couldn’t. And so I started selling out, and it’s a sad, pathetic, ridiculous story. But I’d like to see what’s there. I don’t remember, that’s weird. I don’t remember. So it could be interesting, there could be something there.
Hopefully someone will be encouraged now to make it happen, because Lynch’s lack of interest was an insurmountable obstacle, but it seems that has changed. In addition, ‘Dune’ is going through a moment of great popularity thanks to the recent adaptation of the novel by Frank Herbert Realized by Denis Villeneuvewhose second installment will hit theaters next year.