Quentin Tarantino refuses to watch Denis Villeneuves Dunefilms: Its one after another of this remake

Quentin Tarantino will not watch any of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies because he’s sick and tired of remakes.While appearing on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” this week, the Oscar winner, 61, was asked if he believed “Dune: Part Two” was the best movie of the year as many have claimed.

Tarantino couldn’t chime in because he’s never seen the flick featuring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Florence Pugh and Austin Butler — and has no plans to.“I saw [David Lynch’s] ‘Dune’ a couple of times.I don’t need to see that story again,” Tarantino exclaimed.

“I don’t need to see spice worms.I don’t need to see a movie that says the word ‘spice’ so dramatically.” The Hollywood film director enjoyed David Lynch’s 1984 movie, based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel of the same name; however, he expressed his lack of interest in Villeneuve’s remakes: “Dune” (2021), “Dune: Part Two” (2024) and “Dune Messiah,” said to be the third and final film in the series.

The trilogy was confirmed earlier this year.The filmmaker — whose hits include everything from “Pulp Fiction” and “Kill Bill: Part One” and “Kill Bill: Part Two” to “Reservoir Dogs,” “Django Unchained” and “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” — is exhausted of the same old stories in Tinseltown.“It’s one after another of this remake and that remake,” Tarantino said on Tuesday’s episode of the podcast.

His exhaustion is nothing personal against Villeneuve.He feels that way about all reboots.“People ask have you seen ‘Dune’? Have you seen ‘Ripley?’ Have you seen ‘Shōgun’?” And I’m like no, no, no, no.

There’s six or seven Ripley books.If you do one again, why are you doing the same one that they’ve done twice already? I’ve seen that story twice before, and I didn’t really like it in either version, so I’m not really interested in seeing it a third time.

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