DUNE Director David Lynch Says He Will "Never" Watch Denis Villeneuve's Adaptation

While David Lynch’s adaptation of Dune is a classic film that’s beloved by fans, the filmmaker went through a rough time making the movie. There were a lot of behind the scenes struggles that he had to deal with and challenges that he had to work through. Dune was his first big major studio project and it ended up being a disappointment for him. But, he did the best he could under the circumstances, and the movie is good!

It’s been almost 40 years since that frustrating experience, but he’s still pretty sour about it. In fact, he recently said that he will never watch Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of the film. While speaking with the French outlet Cahiers du Cinéma, per Far Out, when asked about Villeneuve's Dune movie, Lynch replied, "I will never watch it, and I don't even want you to tell me about it, ever."

So he shut down that conversion pretty quickly! Lynch previously talked about what it would be like to get the chance to restore his original vision of the film, but also admitted how unlikely that would happen:

"Dune -- people have said, 'Don't you want to go back and fiddle with Dune?' And I was so depressed and sickened by it, you know? I want to say, I loved everybody that I worked with; they were so fantastic. I loved all the actors; I loved the crew; I loved working in Mexico; I loved everything except that I didn't have final cut. And I even loved Dino [De Laurentiis], who wouldn't give me what I wanted. And Raffaella, the producer, who was his daughter -- I loved her. But the thing was a horrible sadness and failure to me, and if I could go back in I've thought, well, maybe I would on that one go back in. But I mean, nobody's...it's not going to happen."

It sucks that Lynch had such a bad experience, and I imagine he doesn’t want to watch the recent adaptation because he doesn’t want to see want to have to compare it to what he made. He just wanted to keep his original vision of Dune in his head.