Quentin Tarantino slams Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ films: ‘It’s one after the other’

Quentin Tarantino won’t watch any of Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ films because he’s tired of remakes.

Appearing on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” this week, the Oscar winner, 61, was asked if he believed “Dune: Part Two” was the best film of the year, as many claim.

Tarantino couldn’t participate because he has never seen the film starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Florence Pugh and Austin Butler – and has no plans to do so.

“I’ve seen ‘Dune’ (by David Lynch) a few times. I don’t need to see that story again,” Tarantino exclaimed. “I don’t need to see spice worms. I don’t need to see a movie where the word ‘spice’ is used so dramatically.”

The Hollywood film director enjoyed David Lynch’s 1984 film, based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel of the same name; however, he expressed his lack of interest in Villeneuve’s remakes: “Dune” (2021), “Dune: Part Two” (2024) and “Dune Messiah,” reportedly the third and final film in the series. The trilogy was confirmed earlier this year.

The filmmaker – whose hits include everything from ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Kill Bill: Part One’ and ‘Kill Bill: Part Two’ to ‘Reservoir Dogs’, ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’ – is exhausted from the same old stories in Tinseltown.

“It’s one after another of this remake and that remake,” Tarantino said on Tuesday’s episode of the podcast.

His exhaustion is nothing personal against Villeneuve. That’s how he feels about all restarts.

“People ask, have you seen ‘Dune’? Have you seen ‘Ripley’? Have you seen ‘Shogun’?” And I say no, no, no, no. There are six or seven Ripley books. If you’re going to do it again, why are you doing the same thing they’ve already done twice? I’ve seen that story twice before, and I didn’t really like it in either version, so I’m not really interested in seeing it a third time. If you were to do another story, it would be interesting enough that you would still give it a try,” he explained.

Tarantino has directed nine films in his career, none of which are remakes.

“I saw ‘Shōgun’ in the ’80s. I watched all 13 hours. I’m good. I don’t need to see that story again, I don’t care how they do it,” he added. “I don’t care if they take me and put me in a time machine in ancient Japan. I don’t care, I’ve seen the story.”

The Post has reached out to Villeneuve for comment.

“Dune: Part Two” grossed $182.5 million worldwide in its debut weekend, with the legendary Steven Spielberg even gushing over the film.

“You have made one of the most brilliant science fiction films I have ever seen,” Spielberg told Villeneuve at the Directors Guild of America panel in March.

Tarantino may not be interested in remakes, but the filmmaker has expressed his plan to make his tenth film his last, recently dropping ‘The Movie Critic’ as his final film.

“I’ve been doing it for a long time,” he explained. “I’ve been doing it for 30 years and it’s time to wrap up the show,” he told CNN in 2022.

“I’m an entertainer: I want you to want more and not just work – and I don’t want to work to reduce returns,” Tarantino said.

“I don’t want to become this out-of-touch old man, when I already feel like an out-of-touch old man when it comes to the current movies coming out now.”