Blade Runner 2049Still Keeps Denis Villeneuve Awake at Night

Things are going really , really well forDenis Villeneuveright now . Dune : Part Two — the sequel to his six - fourth dimension Oscar - winning 2021 Dune — has gottenrapturous reviewsand is on cartroad for massive box seat - role success . And his calling pre - Dune was also full of plaudit . But one film in particular acquit so much weight , he still feel its heft from time to time .

“ Blade Runner is one of my favorite film , and it ’s absolutely a masterpiece , ” Villeneuve said ina new consultation with the Hollywood Reporter . “ Ridley Scott is one of my favourite film producer , and even though he had given his blessing , it was very significant for me to hear it and see it in his eye that he was all right with me doing the pic at the time . But I was incessantly reckon about the original motion picture as I was make Blade Runner 2049 . It was impossible not to . ”

And candidly , it sounds like he ’s still think about it , seven years later . “ So 2049 was really a making love letter to the first film , but it was by far one of the most hard undertaking I ’ve ever done , and I do n’t think I will ever approach someone else ’s macrocosm again , ” Villeneuve continued . “ I still wake up sometimes at night , tell , ‘ Why did I do that ? ’ I ’d decline a few other projects of that weighing machine , but at the time , I say to myself , ‘ It ’s a crazy undertaking , but it ’s worth the risk of losing everything . ’ ”

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perhaps adding extra flavor to those night terror is the fact that Ridley Scott himself has expressed regrets over not helming the follow - up to his 1982 classic ; just last class , the Napoleon movie maker saidtiming fight meant he was force to choosebetween Alien : Covenant and Blade Runner 2049 : “ I should n’t have had to make that decision … but I had to . I should have done Blade Runner 2 . ”

This is not the first time Villeneuve has gloss on his stressful experience mastermind Blade Runner 2049 . When the first Dune came out — his first undertaking since 2049 was put out — he remark that“I knew when I did this movie I flirted with disaster ” and that making it put him into “ aesthetic danger , ” to the item that he feared it would be a career - ender , a feeling no doubt made worse by the motion-picture show ’s mixed reception . Obviously , Villeneuve recoil back just fine : Dune : Part Two is in theater of operations now .

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