Tag: Blade Runner 2049
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Psycho Franchise Stays Interesting By Never Making the Same Film Twice
Crafting a sequel to one of the most beloved films of all-time is always a challenge. As good as films like 2010: The Year We Made Contact or Blade Runner 2049 are, they are always going to be compared to the original classics that inspired them. Initially, it seemed like making a sequel to Alfred…
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Hollywood’s Big Risks: 28 Daring Studio Films from the Last 15 Years
[Editor’s note: This gallery was originally published in November 2018 and has been updated accordingly]Hollywood studios have become so dependent over the last decade on comic book films and mind-numbing tentpoles attached to pre-existing IP that it can feel like a minor miracle any time a major studio breaks the mold.Whether it’s “Crazy Rich Asians”…
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Jamie Lee Curtis Assumed Ana de Armas Was An “Unsophisticated Young Woman” On ‘Knives Out’ Set
With “The Gray Man” on the way later this month and Andrew Dominik‘s “Blonde” out in September, it’s a big year for Ana de Armas on Netflix. But the actress’s star has been rising for some time now. She arguably broke out in Hollywood back in Eli Roth‘s 2015 house-invasion film “Knock Knock,” but her…
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If Dune’s Costumes Weren’t Right, Nothing Else Was Going To Work
The story of adapting Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic “Dune” is as tragic and winding as the exposition of the novel itself. But decades after David Lynch’s campy ’80s version seemed to solidify the tale as unadaptable, Denis Villeneuve did just that with his 2021 film.One of the many laurels heaped atop his “Dune” is its…
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Hans Zimmer Wins Oscar for ‘Dune’ Score, Accepts in a Bathrobe
Hans Zimmer triumphed in Sunday’s best original score category at the Academy Awards, claiming the Oscar for the music of “Dune.”Zimmer did not attend the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre as he is on tour with his band in Europe.It is Zimmer’s second Academy Award; he previously won for 1994’s animated “The Lion King,” although…
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‘Dune’: How Denis Villeneuve’s VFX Team Created Desert Power for the Sandworms and Ornithopters
Denis Villeneuve was adamant about “Dune” being as naturalistic as possible, especially on the desert planet Arrakis. That’s why he shot in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and the desert terrain of Budapest using the IMAX format with cinematographer Greig Fraser. This extended to the elaborate VFX as well. Achieving believable desert power was essential.“The…
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Oscars 2022: Best Sound Predictions
It’s a very competitive sound race, with frontrunner “Dune” being challenged from all sides by sci-fi (“The Matrix Resurrections”), horror, superheroes, spies, musicals, westerns, and film noir (“Nightmare Alley”).However, the sonic power and complexity of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” (Warner Bros.) is going to be hard to beat. Its great achievement is creating a grounded reality…
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‘Dune’ Is the First Time Denis Villeneuve Shot with Multiple Camera Units: ‘Not the Best Way to Work’
Just how big is Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” adaptation? It forced the Oscar-nominated director to use more than one camera unit for the first time in his career. Villeneuve revealed as much in a conversation with Christopher Nolan for the DGA’s “The Director’s Cut” podcast. The production requirements for “Dune” outweighed any of Villeneuve’s previous directorial…
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Roger Deakins Opens Up About the Personal Photography in His First Book, ‘Byways’
With a career that spans four decades, includes 15 Oscar nominations, two wins, and credits on modern classics like “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Blade Runner 2049,” cinematographer Roger Deakins’ work is some of the most recognizable in the business. But there’s a side of Deakins’ creative output that’s been less visible over his many years…
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Dune review – sci-fi epic gets off to a flying start
The French-Canadian director of Blade Runner 2049 brings an astonishing visual sensibility to Frank Herbert’s ‘unfilmable’ sci-fi classicFor years, it seemed that the greatest film ever to come from Frank Herbert’s quasi-biblical 1960s sci-fi novel Dune would be a 2013 documentary about the failure to make a great film out of Herbert’s novel. In Jodorowsky’s…