Dune is Jason Momoa's Most Spectacular Project to Date
Jason Momoa, who plays the role of Duncan Idaho in Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptation talked at one of the press conferences about the scope of this movie undertaking.
For a very long time Dune's creators did not boast excessively with promotional materials, limiting themselves to single trailer of the work was released on September 9, which delighted both fans of Frank Herbert's book and cinema fans unfamiliar with the franchise. The main focus is on stylistic consistency with the source material, i.e. a certain formal severity and monumentalism.
"Monumentalism" is the key word in this case, because that's what Jason Momoa focused on, talking about working on set with director Denis Villeneuve. The actor playing Duncan Idaho shared his experience with Dune during one of the press conferences, as reported by Cinemablend. Here are the artist's words:
"I’ve never worked with a director on this scale. Denis is a cinematic genius, and generally all the action stuff that I’ve done has been nowhere, even remotely close to Denis. Just watching some of the moves that I would do, and going behind the camera and seeing Greig’s [camera operator - editorial note] eye, with Denis, I’ve never seen something so beautiful in a fight scene. Generally the things that I do don’t look that good. So thank you, Denis."
The actor spares no praise to Villeneuve and calls his work the most spectacular in which he took part, and it has to be taken into that he played a very important role in such productions as Game of Thrones or Aquaman, and now he is associated with the Netflix prequel of The Witcher. Dune will debut in cinemas on December 18, 2020. Other notable actors will include Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem.
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