Director Denis Villeneuve sent him his laptop with a copy of the film.
“Dune: Part Two” – the long-awaited second chapter of the scientific – a fantasy epic directed by Danny Villeneuve, recently released in theaters. But the film was secretly shown more than six weeks ago in an unusual place: a palliative hospital for a 50-year-old film fan whose last wish was to see a sequel to his favorite film before he died.
The Washington Post writes about this.
In early January 2024, the founder of a hospice in Quebec, Josée Gagnon, wrote on Facebook that she had an “ambitious and crazy idea,” so she was looking for the contacts of director Danny Villeneuve.
“The man said that before he died, he wanted to watch the movie Dune 2. It’s difficult because that movie just came out at the end of February 2024. We all knew that the patient would have been dead by then,” Gagnon says.
According to her, Villeneuve and his wife were extremely touched: “They told me: “He is exactly the one for whom films are made.”
The director offered to bring the man to Montreal or Los Angeles to watch the film, but the patient was too weak for this. So Villeneuve's assistant flew to Quebec and brought with him the director's laptop with a copy of the film on it.
From his bed in a palliative care home, a man had the opportunity to rewatch Dune 2 before the rest of the world. With the curtains drawn in the room, the man and one of his friends were watching a movie on Villeneuve's laptop screen. Secrecy was most important – participants signed non-disclosure agreements and put away their phones to prevent information leaks.
The man didn't speak English, so he had to watch the movie with French subtitles. He was so weak that hospice staff feared he might die while watching the film. In the end, the man was unable to watch the full 2 hours and 46 minutes of the film. Because of the pain, he only saw half of it. A few days later, a Dune fan died.
“Giving the film to this man was a “race against time.” He died, taking the secret of the film with him,” notes José Gagnon.
Recall that “Dune. Part Two” was released worldwide a month and a half after the death of this man – on March 1, 2024. It grossed approximately $180 million worldwide in its opening weekend.
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