Unless you're Jan de Bont or Simon Kinberg, blockbuster movie directors don't start their directorial careers helming big-budget features. Usually, they kick off their filmographies with smaller-scale tales that depart heavily in tone and genre from the blockbusters they'd eventually helm. Jon Watts, for instance, directed the small-scale thriller
Cop Car before moving on to helm the MCU
Spider-Man movies and Peter Jackson directed
foul-mouthed horny puppets before he directed the epic fantasy movies
Lord of the Rings. So it is with Denis Villeneuve, who is in the middle of directing a massively expensive adaptation of the sci-fi epic
Dune, but just five years ago directed the highly unorthodox thriller
Enemy.
