Dune: part 2 has become the most important cinematographic phenomenon so far this year. While we wait to see how its box office turns out, its figures so far are impressive both globally and nationally. In addition, critics are placing it as the new The Empire Strikes Back, and it is clear that the name of its director, Denis Villeneuve, is reaching further than ever before.
The movie itself lasts 2 hours and 46 minutes, a quite extensive duration that, however, seems to have become established in films of this kind. However, the director himself has admitted that it “breaks his heart” to have left out of the final footage some key scenes and characters they wanted to appear. This is the case of actor Tim Blake Nelson, and also of Stephen McKinley Henderson, who did appear in the first installment.
“I kill what I love the most”
“One of the most painful decisions for me was not including Thufir Hawat. He is a character that I love, but from the beginning I decided that I was going to make an adaptation of the Bene Gesserit. That meant that the Mentats are not as present as they should be, but it is the nature of the adaptation,” explains the director.
But will there be a reassembly of the film including these scenes? Or will we never be able to see the role of these actors in Dune: part 2? The filmmaker has answered in Collider, and unfortunately we don’t have good news for the fans:
“I firmly believe that when it’s not in the film, it’s dead. Sometimes I take shots and say, ‘I can’t believe I’m cutting this‘. I feel like a samurai opening my guts. It’s painful, so I can’t come back later and create a Frankenstein and try to revive the things I’ve killed. It’s too painful. When it’s dead, it’s dead, and it’s dead for a reason. Yes, it’s painful, but it’s my job. The film prevails. I am very strict in the editing room. I don’t think about my ego, I think about the film… I kill the ones I love the most, and that’s painful for me”.
