Quentin Tarantino hasn’t watched director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films and he has no plans to. While a guest on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the filmmaker explained why he won’t watch the new Dune films, and one of the reasons involves the word “spice.”
“I saw [David Lynch’s] Dune a couple of times. I don’t need to see that story again. I don’t need to see spice worms. I don’t need to see a movie that says the word spice so dramatically.”
Tarantino went on to reveal that he also hasn’t watched the Shōgun and Ripley series saying: “It’s one after another of this remake, and that remake. People ask ‘Have you seen Dune?’ ‘Have you seen Ripley?’ ‘Have you seen Shōgun?’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no.’
“There’s six or seven Ripley books. If you do one again, why are you doing the same one that they’ve done twice already?
“I’ve seen that story twice before, and I didn’t really like it in either version, so I’m not really interested in seeing it a third time. If you did another story, that would be interesting enough to give it a shot anyway.”
Tarantino continued: “I saw Shōgun in the ’80s. I watched all 13 hours. I’m good. I don’t need to see that story again, I don’t care how they do it. I don’t care if they take me and put me in ancient Japan in a time machine. I don’t care, I’ve seen the story.”
Really? he wouldn’t be interested in jumping in a time machine and watching the events unfold for real!? That’s hilarious.
Tarantino is a funny guy.
