Steven Spielberg he is a big fan of the director Denis Villeneuve’S Duna: second part and Spielberg had nothing but praise for the film while interviewing Villeneuve on the latest episode of DGA’s “Director’s Cut” podcast.
Spielberg shared with Villeneuve that: “You’ve made one of the most brilliant science fiction films I’ve ever seen.” That’s incredibly high praise coming from the man behind it ET: the extraterrestrial AND Close encounters of the third kind.
Spielberg continued to praise the director of Dune: “It is an honor for me to sit here and talk to you. Let me start by saying that there are directors who are world builders. It’s not a long list and we know who many of them are. To start with [Georges] Méliès and Disney and Kubrick, George Lucas. Ray Harryhausen I include in that list. Fellini built his worlds. Tim Burton. Obviously Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Guillermo del Toro. The list goes on, but it’s not that long, and I deeply and fervently believe that you are one of its newest members.
As you can imagine, Villeneuve was in awe and humiliated when this compliment was paid to him. Spielberg went on to specifically call out the scene Duna: second part where Paul rides a sandworm for the first time, saying it is one of the biggest things he has ever seen.
Spielberg said, “This is a desert-loving story, but for such a desert-loving film there is such a longing for water in this film. For all the sand in this film, it’s actually about water. The sacred waters that long for green meadows and the blue water of life. You film the desert so that it looks like an ocean, a sea. The sand worms were like sea serpents. And that scene where I’m surfing among the sandworms is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Never! But you made the desert look like a liquid.
Villeneuve previously revealed that it took him 44 days to film the sandworm riding scene. The crew built the worm into a 90-foot-long, 24-foot-wide stage. All the work that went into bringing this scene to life paid off and was pretty damn spectacular.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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