Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve says "difficult" Blade Runner 2049 still keeps him up at night: "Why did I do that?"

Mar. 4, 2024

“I don’t think I will ever approach someone else’s universe again”

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Denis Villeneuve may have just tackled a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert’s dense sci-fi epicDune, but the director has revealed that another genre sequel was much more of a challenge – so much so that it still keeps him up at night.

Set 30 years after the original movie, Harrison Ford reprises his role as Rick Deckard and he’s joined by Ryan Gosling as K, a young replicant blade runner working for the LAPD. When he discovers a long-buried secret that threatens to destabilize everything he knows, K decides to track down Deckard, who’s been missing for three decades.

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