Dune director Denis Villeneuve has revealed that he took inspiration from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy when it came to staying faithful to his own films' source material.
"I tried my best to stay close to the spirit and to stay close aesthetically to something I had in mind when I read the book," Villeneuve said in a new interview with Vanity Fair. "I remember when I saw Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, where I felt so much respect for the book, so much love for the book. Of course it's my adaptation, it's my take on it, but people will feel an energy, a spirit that is close to what Frank Herbert had done. So if it can bring more people to read the book, it would be great. At the end of the day, that's the goal."
