Christopher Nolan is hailing the directing skills of Denis Villeneuve in the Dune franchise. However, he has a question about one aspect of the sequel.
In a chat with the Canadian filmmaker, the Oppenheimer director praised Dune: Part Two as a “miraculous job of an adaptation, of taking that second half and making an incredible conclusion of the story.”
But his issue with the sequel, he said in a hilarious way, was the difficulty of keeping up with so many names ascribed to Timothée Chalamet in the film, according to Deadline.
“I have a lot of questions about how you did that, starting with: Usul, Muad’Dib, Paul, Lisan al Gaib. How many ******* names can you give one character and expect us to keep up with it?”
“Most adaptations, it’s a process of condensing things and simplifying things,” the Academy-winning filmmaker jokingly said.
“My feeling in watching both films, in particular the second film, is that this was an act of exploring a little further and burrowing into the complications and embracing those and the world building beyond even what’s in the book,” he added.
