“I’m here to protect the dude, that’s all I know,” Brolin said. “We decided right from the start that it should be a feminine score to enhance the female presence that we felt was very important and fundamental in the book,” Villeneuve said.Įlsewhere in the press conference, Josh Brolin joked that he represented the “power of the testicles” in the film. Villeneuve spoke about collaborating on the score by Hans Zimmer, achieved when the world was in lockdown with musicians in their respective bubbles. The environment was also touched upon by another of the film’s stars, Javier Bardem, who called for a change of global lifestyles, “either that, or a disaster.” Villeneuve also said that though the Herbert’s novel was written in the 1960s, it was prescient of the present day, speaking as it does about the blending of religion and politics, the danger of messianic figures, the impact of colonialism and the ongoing problem the world has today with the environment.
on how he learned how to “sandwalk” in #Dune. “Hopefully we’ll see TikToks of people doing the same stuff.” “That would be a dream.”Ĭhalamet said that he practiced his “sandwalk” in the film with choreographer Benjamin Millepied, but he declined to re-enact his moves for the press. “I hope we can do a second one,” he said.
The actor - who is currently filming a movie about Willy Wonka in his earlier years - said that making “Dune” was “the honor of a lifetime.” And he said that wanted to continue to tell the story in a sequel. Timothee Chalamet said he watched Kyle MacLachlan’s performance in the original ‘Dune’ before he made #DuneMovie. But when Denis Villeneuve asks you to do a movie and do his version of the movie, you forget all that.”
“I was fortunate enough to work on other projects that have prior iterations with great actors in them.
“I have huge respect for Kyle’s performance and I love that version,” Chalamet said. He said that he’d watched Kyle MacLachlan’s performance in the 1984 original “Dune” two months before shooting, but tried to make the character his own. Timothée Chalamet stars in the sci-fi tentpole as Paul Atreides, the character based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel. At Venice, “Dune” will be playing on the big screen at its world premiere on Friday night at the historic Sala Grand theater.