Dune director Denis Villeneuve: "It was, by far, the toughest thing I've done" - martinezwassfy

Dune director Denis Villeneuve: "It was, out and away, the toughest thing I've done"

Dune exclusive image from Total Film magazine

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Denis Villeneuve has become one of Hollywood's premier directors, impressing audiences with crime drama Sicario, then becoming a mainstream appoint with his sci-fi epics Comer and Steel Runner 2049. Next rising, the grandest science-fiction story of them all: an adaptation on Forthright Herbert's Dune.

"IT was," the director stresses to Add up Picture show in a new question, "by removed, the toughest thing I've through with."

Villeneuve has been dream of his Dune movie since he was a teenager. "There are deep pleasures when there are images that you're able to achieve that are close to what you had in mind A a teenager; then it's orgasmic," he says. "But the failures are real baffling, because you disappoint the teenager in yourself. Every bit Hans Zimmer [who has scored Dune] pointed out, IT's very vulnerable to try to strain one of your oldest dreams."

The very estimation of adapting Sand dune was an "un-come-at-able, out-of-ambi dreaming" that Villeneuve carried throughout his career as a movie maker. One of his early feature films, 2010's acclaimed drama Incendies, was shot in the deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan River, the very same extrinsic landscapes he would return to almost a decade later for Dune. "I remember winning mental notes at the time: 'If ever so I make out the movie, I'm coming back out here and thither. That's where Paul sits...'" helium recalls. "But it was a massive phantasy."

Villeneuve is the forward to admit that he could not have done Sand dune justice a decade ago. Only by making 'stepping- Oliver Stone' movies Arrival – where he learnt to tell 'inland' stories on a large study – and Blade Runner 2049 – a crash-class in artistic movement world-building – did he feel equipped to land a book of Sand dune's scale and complexity, one far considered 'unadaptable', to the screen.

"I sustain some kind of a self-destructive device inside Pine Tree State to bring down projects that are out of my reach," helium acknowledges. Just in those moments of uncertainty he would work to a mantra from a Bible that attribute his adolescence: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total annihilation. I will face my fear."

Dune is regular to undecided in US cinemas and on HBO Georgia home boy along October 22. It will overt in UK cinemas on October 21. For so much much on the film, including interviews with all of the starry cast, pick awake a copy of the unweathered emerge of Tot up Film when it hits shelves on Friday 20 Noble. Check out the new cover below, as well as the cover of the special supplement that comes with the government issue.

Total Film's Dune issue and special supplement — (Image credit: Total Film/Warner Bros)

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Jordan is the Community Editor at SFX and Total Film. When helium isn't watching movies or sci-fi shows of questionable superior atomic number 2's in all likelihood shot men in space or counting down the days till the next Zelda comes outer.