Warner Bros. and Legendary Set Denis Villeneuve Event Film for 2026, Next MonsterVerse Movie for 2027

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• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t yet seen an in-depth interview with Villeneuve where he addresses whether or not he wants to continue making (admittedly thoughtful and overall excellent) adaptations vs original works.

  Going back over his filmography, every film since Maelström (2000) (or perhaps Polytechnique in 2009) has been an adaptation of a previous work. I really love the work he does, and I would not want him to be tied down to existing properties. Then again, he may believe that adaptations are where he does his best work.

  Whichever it is, let the man work the way he wants to work. I’m here for it.

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  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s mentioned somewhere (believe me I’m an internet enthusiast) that he doesn’t like writing, he’s just a master at adaptation. And I get that. Being really good at visualizing a story well is really hard.

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  • decerian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is Sicario an adaptation? I can’t find any reference that it is.

    Also, Prisoners is technically an adaptation of a short-story, but it’s a not very well known short-story (I don’t even see a name for the story on Wikipedia) from the writer of the screen play, so you could make an argument that the short story is essentially just a first draft of the script.

    I do agree that we should just let him continue doing whatever he wants, he’s done excellent work.

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  • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like doing really great adaptations like he has is a really rare skill in his line of work. Dune was considered to be unfilmable even David Lynch failed to do it. But he did it extremely well

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• TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lisan al-Kaiju!

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  • Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems promising

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a hell of a garden path sentence headline. “Legendary” is a noun and “Set” is a verb.

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  • Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s usual with Variety

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With a variety of what? (/j)

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