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Denis Villeneuve Didn’t Want ‘Dune’ to Look Too Much Like ‘Star Wars’ (Video)

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Denis Villeneuve said that in bringing Frank Herbert’s “Dune” to the screen, he was focused on not making it his own vision but Herbert’s.

But there’s one other big movie that got in the way of that vision: “Star Wars.” “The main…I will not say ‘enemy,’ was ‘Star Wars,'” Villeneuve told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto International Film Festival. “It’s well known that ‘Star Wars’ has been deeply inspired by ‘Dune,’ and here we are, making a ‘Dune’ movie, and we are ‘Star Wars’ kids.

To find our own identity and bring something that we are hoping is fresh and new for the audience, it was a fun challenge.”Thankfully, Villeneuve’s “Dune” treats Herbert’s book like “The Bible,” adhering attentively to the visual cues and details Herbert.

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