Dune’s Denis Villeneuve Thought Blade Runner 2049 Would End His Career

In a couple of weeks, Dune will lastly hit theaters (and likewise HBO Max) in North America. Director-writer Denis Villeneuve is aware of how fortunate he’s to adapt Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, largely as a result of he didn’t suppose he’d nonetheless be directing in any respect after Blade Runner 2049. 

During an episode of MTV’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast earlier this week, Villeneuve talked about how the 2017 movie affected his outlook on his profession. “I knew when I did this movie I flirted with disaster,” he admitted. Acclaimed critically although it was, it was financially a non-starter, making $259.3 million globally, and was mainly a dud within the United States. To him, making the Ryan Gosling-starring movie put him into “artistic danger,” and he was frightened that he wouldn’t be making motion pictures once more after that. “At least I wasn’t banned from the filmmaker community,” he quipped. “I’m still making movies, and you’re still talking to me.”

Still, no matter lack of monetary success Blade Runner 2049 had, it doesn’t appear to have mattered in the long term. In the 4 years since its launch, the Blade Runner franchise has seen a number of comedian releases which have expanded its world, to not point out Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’s Black Lotus anime arriving subsequent month. The franchise appears to be doing high-quality now, as most franchises do after a couple of years on ice, and it’s doubtless that we’ll see one other movie finally… simply possibly not with one other 40-year hole.

Given how beloved properties like Dune and Blade Runner are in popular culture, it’s comprehensible how a lot strain that will placed on the Canadian director. While it helps present some context to his clear want to make that second Dune movie and become involved with its spinoff sequence, it doesn’t absolutely let him off the hook for being so insistent on seeing the film in theaters. Even if the film bombs and he leaves filmmaking altogether, all his work will finally hit the boob tube.

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

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