By You won’t see a director’s cut of either of the “Dune” films, it seems, as filmmaker Denis Villeneuve says he has no plans to include deleted scenes from them in any future disc releases.
Out doing a new round of interviews for “Dune: Part Two” ahead of that film’s release on March 1st, the director tells Collider there aren’t any plans to include recuts of the film as what you see on screen is very much his take – everything else shot is dead and buried.
The reasoning appears to be prioritising the story and the movie’s pacing over its runtime, saying how it’s about the experience and how some films can be five minutes long and boring, others 3-4 hours long and you “could live there forever”.
It’s all about finding the right balance. He tells the outlet: “I’m a strong believer that when it’s not in the movie, it’s dead. I kill darlings, and it’s painful for me.” He then goes on to explain his mindset in more colorful detail:
“Sometimes I remove shots and I say, ‘I cannot believe I’m cutting this out.’ I feel like a samurai opening my gut. It’s painful, so I cannot go back after that and create a Frankenstein and try to reanimate things that I killed. It’s too painful.
When it’s dead, it’s dead, and it’s dead for a reason. But yes, it is a painful project, but it is my job. The movie prevails. I’m very, I think, severe in the editing room. I’m not thinking about my ego, I’m thinking about the movie.
The runtime of a movie, for me, the length of the movie is based on what the story needs. Sometimes I’ve made movies in my life that were 75 minutes, and this one is two hours, 45 [minutes].
I think, something like that. It’s not, for me, the runtime, it’s about the storytelling, and I felt that I wanted to create a momentum . I wanted an energy in the movie that I was looking for that excited me, and I thought that was the perfect runtime.”
“Dune: Part 2” clocks in around ten minutes longer than the first film and close to the three hour mark. It opens everywhere on March 1st.
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