'Dune' Director Denis Villeneuve

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Villeneuve remembers watching the 1984 movie version of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune and thinking, "Someday someone else will do it again" — not realizing he would be that filmmaker. He spoke to Sam Briger about shooting Dune in the desert, depicting sandworm surfing, and his love of silent film.

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0:18.3	That's Planet Money from NPR. This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. The much anticipated sci-fi movie Dune Part 2 opens in theaters Friday.
0:33.5	Its director, Denis Villeneuve, spoke with Fresh Air producer Sam Brigger
0:37.9	about making Dune Part 1 and 2
0:40.6	and the rest of his film career. Here's Sam.
0:43.0	My guest Denis Villeneuve was a teenager when he read the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
0:49.0	He was already a fan of science fiction, but Dune was a huge inspiration for him.
0:54.8	Even at an early age he wanted to make it into a movie.
0:58.2	After successes making films like Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, he got the chance. His movie Dune Part 1 came out in 2021 to critical
1:06.8	and commercial success. Now he's directed Dune Part 2, which comes out on Friday.
1:13.4	Dune Part 2 takes place in the distant future, mostly on the harsh desert planet Arrakis,
1:19.0	after the feudal house at Tradees has been wiped out in a conspiracy between the Galactic Emperor and their enemies
1:25.1	the Harkinans, including the head of Etrady's Duke Lido. But Lido's son, Paul and
1:31.1	Paul's mother, Jessica, played by Timate Shalame, and Rebecca Ferguson, escaped the
1:36.1	attack and are taken in by the indigenous people of Iraqus called the Fremen.
1:41.3	The Harkinans have regained control of Arrakis and Paul and Jessica have joined the
1:45.0	Fremen's insurgency against them. Many of the Fremen think that Paul might be a
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