Timothée Chalamet 'has the charisma of a rock star' says 'Dune' director Denis Villeneuve -- and was the only actor he considered to lead his long-awaited sci-fi blockbuster.
"I know you," murmurs Paul, the young protagonist of Denis Villeneuve's"Dune." He's referring to a beautiful woman who has wandered in his unconscious, all windswept hair and piercing gaze, halfway between dream and perfume advert. Now she stands before him, flesh and blood; a vision no more. Yet she's flintier than anticipated, brusquer than the fantasy. Expectation, meet reality.
In cinema, the possessive has followed the 1965 sci-fi novel wherever it has gone: it's Alejandro Jodorowsky's"Dune," David Lynch's"Dune," and now it's Denis Villeneuve's. One source, many visions wrought in the mind's eye. But where expectation meets reality has historically been a sore point. Jodorowsky's film was aborted in the 1970s, Lynch's
"We kept the words of Frank Herbert close to us," he added."That was our way to bring something fresh to the screen that would not feel like old recycled ideas." "This project is, as the book is, a tragedy," Villeneuve argued."It's really the story of a young man that will have the burden of a terrible religious heritage." For his tragic figurehead Villeneuve chose Timothée Chalamet, the only actor the director considered."Timothée has the necessary maturity to bring this character to life, combined with beautiful youth that he brings," said Villeneuve.
"Of course there was pressure not to do it, because it's quite complex to bring a whole film crew into the middle of the desert and to create a safe environment for them ... But for me it was crucial. It was not a negotiation," Villeneuve said."I'm an old-fashioned director. I'm not inspired by virtual environments, I need reality."
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