Oscar Isaac described Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated Dune adaptation as both “nightmarish” and “visceral.”
With 2019 almost in the books, many are already looking forward to all the movies 2020 will bring us. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is towards the top for many people after a glowing response to Blade Runner 2049. While Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 disappointing at the box office, it appears Warner Bros. is still giving the auteur filmmaker freedom on Dune.
Like Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve has assembled a star-studded cast, which includes Oscar Isaac. While promoting Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Oscar Isaac had a lot of positive things to say about what Denis Villeneuve has accomplished with Dune in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:
“It’s just a wholly, wholly different thing. I couldn’t imagine anyone more suited for the tone of the original Frank Herbert novels than Denis. There are some things that are — for lack of a better word — nightmarish about what you see… There’s just this kind of brutalist element to it. It’s shocking. It’s scary. It’s very visceral.
In Dune, Oscar Isaac will be playing Duke Leto Atreides, the father of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides. Oscar Isaac went on to praise the film some more and teased the family element:
And I know that definitely between Denis and myself and Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson as the family unit, we really searched for the emotion of it. I’m beyond myself with excitement. I think it’s good to feel cool, unique, and special.”
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Denis Villeneuve is also helming the pilot of the Dune: The Sisterhood television series for Warner Bros. in addition to serving as an executive producer on the project. A release date for the HBO Max Dune series has yet to be announced.
Directed Denis Villeneuve from a script he co-wrote with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth, Dune stars by Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem.
