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Dune 2 Deleted Scenes Will Never Be Shown

Originally posted on Men's Journal  |  By Griff Griffin  |  Last updated Mar 8, 2024 8:01 AM ET

Don’t expect to watch any Dune: Part Two deleted scenes. Its director has, well, deleted them.

Speaking with Collider, Denis Villeneuve reveals the reasoning behind keeping his cut scenes from public consumption.

"I'm a strong believer that when it's not in the movie, it's dead," he says. "Sometimes I remove shots and I say, 'I cannot believe I'm cutting this out. I feel like a samurai opening my gut. It's painful, so I cannot go back after that and create a Frankenstein and try to reanimate things that I killed. It's too painful. When it's dead, it's dead, and it's dead for a reason.”

Dune: Part 2’s runtime is ten minutes longer than the first at two hours and 46 minutes, so it sounds like the original cut was an even more sprawling epic. We’ll have to imagine what it entailed, however, as Villeneuve isn’t saying.

He may have directed a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, a film that spawned numerous re-edits and re-releases since its 1982 debut, but Villeneuve isn’t a fan of that process, despite how painful it is.

“It is a painful project,” he continues. “But it is my job. The movie prevails. I'm very severe in the editing room. I'm not thinking about my ego, I'm thinking about the movie… I kill darlings, and it's painful for me."

There are no regrets, however. Villeneuve says Dune: Part Two has “the perfect runtime."

He knows what he's doing. In fact, Dune 3 is almost finished, confirms the director.

This article first appeared on Men's Journal and was syndicated with permission.

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