You don’t have to love the source material, but you should love the story.
Eric Roth is one of the greatest writers in all of Hollywood. Six of the scripts he’s written on have been nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards, and his career spans decades, including work for Scorsese, Spielberg, Kurosawa, and many more. He just finished Killers of the Flower Moon, which is set to release in November, and has a plethora of upcoming projects.
Roth recently sat down to chat with Indiewire about his work on Dune.
His relationship with Villeneuve came from some work he did on Arrival, and when Villeneuve offered him Dune, Roth had to seriously think about it. Science fiction was not his forte. And he wasn’t a big fan of the book.
Roth told Indiewire, “I had read the book. I liked other science-fiction books at least equally: Childhood’s End, The Foundation. But Dune was a little populist for me, it was prodigious. I knew it had defined a lot of people, certainly 14-, 15-year-old boys, which I was close to at that point. But I was never a fanboy.”
Author: Jason Hellerman
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