The Spice Must Flow Apparel
https://mixedtees.com/thespice
Get 20% OFF with Code: THEPOPCAST
Join our channel for access to the LIVE show.
https://www.youtube.com/thepopcast/join
Additional Music by Scott Buckley @ScottBuckley)
Released under CC-BY 4.0.
————————————————
SUPPORT:
https://www.youtube.com/thepopcast/join
Merch: https://mixedtees.com/thepopcast
————————————————
#dune
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:33 – The Birth of Dune
00:12:32 – Jodorowsky’s Dune
00:14:54 – David Lynch’s Dune
00:25:53 – The Dune Mini Series
00:29:03 – Deni Villenueve’s Dune
00:39:34 – The Legacy of Dune
The spice must flow it’s a quote Dune fans know well second perhaps only to who controls the spce controls the universe although most fans will be surprised to learn that neither of those quotes are found in Frank Herbert’s original books the popular lines come from David Lynch’s 1984 film
Which shows us how deeply that first movie added to the Dune experience a movie that was made before its time as Hollywood technology had not yet progressed to a place where it could really show us the universe Herbert had created in his 1965 novel legendary science fiction writer
Arthur C Clark who wrote 2001 and 2010 among others once sent a letter to Herbert’s editor comparing Dune to the Lord of the Rings because of the extraordinary detail that the world creates as it would turn out it was The Lord of the Rings that would have fans and Studio Executives
Chanting for the Spice to flow this chant would eventually culminate into the successful 2021 and 2024 two-part sweeping theatrical epic by Deni vnu you must built as much as possible because it will influence acting it will influence the the imagination of the actors it will influence
Myself the nearly 60-year journey to properly recreate one of the greatest science fiction franchises on the big screen finally happened and while we strongly believe these movies aren’t the last we see of the Dune Universe we have questions where did the inspiration for Dune come from what
Happened to the movie that was never made why did David Lynch hate his movie and why did it take nearly two decades for Hollywood to finally make a version true to the vision well all of these questions and more are about to be answered this is the definitive history of
Dune and you’ve never heard it told like this before and if you haven’t already subscribed to our Channel please do so now and give us a thumbs up if you want more videos like this and make sure you stay tuned to the end to see how to
Get this awesome Dune inspired graphic design only at mix tees.com [Music] the truth about Dune is that it was almost never published as a novel and the man who risked everything to make it happen would ultimately be punished for his effort but let’s get back
To that in a moment first in 1957 the Space Age began with the USSR launching the first artificial satellite Sputnik one propelling Humanity in a race for the stars that same year 37-year-old Frank Herbert took a small plane to Florence Oregon to write an article about sand dunes in
A pitch to his editor he titled it they sto the moving Sands the US Department of Agriculture had discovered a successful method of stabilizing sand dunes by planting poverty grasses at the highest point of the Dune to keep them from encroaching on roads and buildings it’s obvious from the letters
Herbert sent his editor that he was fascinated with the effects wind driven sand dunes had in the Sahara and other places swallowing cities and towns throughout time but while Herbert was intoxicated to tell this story his editor made it very clear he was the only one while Herbert
Would eventually lose interest in writing the article he realized it was putting him on a path of something much bigger then when it happened it happened big and I was very surprised by how big it it came along and with Sputnik circling the globe and Frank Herbert being inspired to
Write one of the best science fiction novels of all time also in 1957 a child was born in Frank West Germany that child would become a huge fan of Dune as a teenager absolutely as a teenager
Was one of my favorite books it was one of the most important books and in 2022 Hans Zimmer who had scored over 150 films would win only his second Oscar for best original score on Den villain’s Dune and the Oscar goes to Han Zimmer Han Zimmer cannot be here tonight we accept on
His behalf but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves Dune and the Dune Saga maybe science fiction but like his great worms Frank Herbert was tunneling for something deeper influenced by great thinkers like Sigman Freud and Carl Young Dune is a complex story about the future of humanity
Involving philosophy religion psychology politics and ecology through the lens of a 20th century perspective Herbert was fascinated with the impact of human effort on the world around us not just our impact on the environment but in the ways our interactions affect the world around us
Whether it be with cultures religion politics and charismatic leaders their mistakes are Amplified by the Numbers who follow them without question he was also genuinely concerned and curious about what the actions of humans on Earth would mean for the eventual future of humanity Dune is conceived
Of as a as a planet that is totally desert so that water on it is the metaphor of say oil here uh it is a metaphor of Clean Air metaphor of water it’s a met for for the shortages that we are encountering because of overpopulation Herbert Drew further inspiration from Native American
Men like Howard Hansen Hansen grew up on the quot reservation near Herbert’s Hometown and regularly shared his writing with the author Hansen told Herbert in 1958 that white men are eating the Earth after sharing the effects of logging on his reservation he said they are going to turn
This whole planet into a wasteland just like North Africa the world could become a big Dune Herbert responded Herbert had written his first novel only 2 years earlier titled the dragon and the Seas it
Was about a near future Earth where the west and the East had been at War for more than a decade with the West stealing oil from the East with specialized nucle submarines water on it is the
Metaphor of say oil here uh very appropriate at the moment it’s obvious that oil was on Herbert’s mind only 20 years before Herbert began working on Dune an American-owned oil well in Saudi Arabia drilled into what would become the largest source of petroleum in the world it’s obvious that
Stories like this inspired Herbert’s Dune and the relationship with local desert dwellers who might be displaced by the West Newfound riches was always on his mind throw in a mind-altering drug that also doubles as the only substance to allow Interstellar travel and you have everything you
Need for a high-stake space drama while Herbert never publicly discussed the use of drugs as his inspiration for Dune according to Legendary myologist Paul stamitz in an article with the daily Grail Herbert confided in stamitz that Dune took inspiration from his own experiences
With magic mushrooms 20 gr of mushrooms hug at a tree the lightning comes and hits you and I I saw fractals for the first time stamet said Frank told him that much of the premise of Dune
The magic spice that allowed the bending of space the giant worms the blue eyes of the fan the mysticism of the benzer came from his perception of the fungal life cycle and his imagination was stimulated through his experiences with the use of magic mushrooms according to stamats Herbert
Shared his technique with him for using spores when he met him in the early 80s Frank enjoyed collecting mushrooms on his property near Port Towns in Washington Herbert’s use of drugs in the story would follow the logic of the desert their communities and the spiritual drugs and journeys
Of those people Herbert had considered using Mar as a setting for the novel but eventually decided to use a fictional Planet instead thinking readers would have too many preconceived ideas about that planet because of all the stories already written about it over the next several years
Of researching and writing Herbert had plotted a short Adventure novel he called spice Planet but set the outline aside when he realized his concept was growing into something much more ambitious in early 1963 Herbert finally presented a draft of Dune to his editor the story set on
The desert planet oracus Dune is the story of the boy Paul at trades heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the spice mange a drug capable of extending life and enhancing Consciousness the editor’s response was that
He thought Frank had done a fantastic job and he really had something his editor began immediately reaching out to magazines for many writers at this time getting a novel published was wonderful but getting your stories published in a magazine is what paid the bills and one of the best in
The 19 1960s was analog magazine who was busy producing thinking man science fiction at that time Dune world would end up running in three parts from December 1963 to February 1964 for $2,550 or $225,000 in today’s money it was a huge success for Herbert while analog was publishing
The serialization monthly Herbert’s editor had been reaching out to Major Publishers for the novel at the same time the response to the story itself after the first 100 Pages was fantastic but there was one huge problem the book was too long typical science fiction novels of the time
Were published with between 50 and 75,000 words but Dune well Dune was approaching 200,000 words double day scribers and nearly 20 other publishing companies said no Herbert felt strongly that Dune would be a money maker for whoever published it it was in early 1965 when Frank Herbert received
Good news from a surprising source Chilton books known for publishing auto repair manuals made an offer for $7,500 plus future royalties to publish the whole thing in a single hard cover book Chilton’s editor Sterling laner had read the story in analog magazine and vouched
For the novel with his company the cost to get you a hardback Dune book in October 1965 $5.95 or just over $60 today it was not cheap remember earlier when we told you the the truth about Dune
Is that it might never have been published had it not been for a man who risked everything to make it that was Sterling laner and after 5 months of disappointing sales on the new novel lanir
Was fired it was the same month Dune won the Hugo award it would take another year for word of mouth about this new exciting science fiction monster novel to get around and sales began to pick up Suddenly stores couldn’t keep Dune in stock today Herbert’s Dune has sold over 20 million copies
And is considered one of the greatest science fiction stories ever told I am will weaton Dune is an absolute Contender for your favorite book one would hope someone sent Sterling lanir a big check at some point but not everyone loved Dune Jr tolken whose Lord of the Rings Dune had been
Compared to refused to review Dune because quote he disliked it with some intensity unquote he felt it would be unfair to Herbert if he gave an honest review of the book while no specifics are given on why tolken didn’t like the work and this is 100% conjecture but there are serious
Anti-colonialism themes in Dune and token’s British Empire was still working on granting Independence to countries at that time it’s just a guess but we’ll likely never know for sure after Dune became a critical and financial success for Herbert he was able to devote himself to writing
Full-time he would write the sequel Dune messiah in 1969 followed by Children of Dune in 1976 God Empire of Dune in 1981 Heretics of Dune in 1984 and finally Chapter House Dune in 1985 Herbert passed away a short time later on February 11th 1986 from a massive pulmonary embolism
While recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer he was 66 the Dune novels wouldn’t end with Frank Herbert his son Brian would go on to write 14 more Dune books from 1999 to 2016 [Music] the incredible success of the Dune novel meant it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would
Come knocking 1968 had two fantastic science fiction movies that would give the studios confidence to make Dune for the right price the movies were Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 aace Odyssey and planet of the ape starring Charlton hon so in 1971 the production company appj International who
Was was busy making the Planet of the Apes movies optioned the right to make Doom after a delay because of Planet of the Apes sequels shooting was finally scheduled to begin in 1974 but the head of the production company died late in 1974 a French Consortium bought the rights from appj
With plans to let Alejandro jarowski direct I was raping Frank he you know raping like this but we’ laugh we’d love jarowski was the Godfather of the Colt midnight movie and known for his daring and psychedelic films of the early 1970s but jarowski wasn’t just making a film about the spice Planet
He wanted to create a profet and his goal was to change the world jarowski assembled a team of spiritual Warriors assembling some of the most talented visual artists of the era Pink Floyd was doing the soundtrack and his cast would include Orson Wells MC Jagger David
Kerine and even Salvador Dolly he and his team spent 2 years creating a dune Bible with over 3,000 storyboard Pages numerous paintings and incredible costumes with an outrageous moving and Powerful screenplay but when jarowski started meeting with Studio Executives there was only one
Problem the movie was too big or perhaps they were afraid to let jarowski explore his vision regardless the financial backing dried up and jarowski dune would not get made but whether mad or a genius the one thing you can say about jatar Row’s Dune is that without the talent
He assembled to make the movie it’s likely the Al franchise would have never happened Dan oanon who had been all in with Dune and was devastated when it didn’t happen went to work on an old script he had been working on before Dune because of his relationship with the team on Dune
He would bring in many of the team members that were also working on Dune the movie would become Alien in 1976 Italian producer Dino deenus who had just produced King Kong purchased the rights for Dune and in 1978 commissioned Herbert to write a new screenplay the script was 175 pages long which would amount to a 3-hour movie as fate would have it deenus hired Ridley Scott to direct who was hot
Off of alien which of course partially owed its existence to the earlier unmade Dune movie but after 7 months as a new first draft script was written Scott dropped out of Dune Ridley thought the movie would need another 2 and 1/2 years of work and with his older brother recently dying
From cancer he needed something more fast-paced to get his mind off of the tragedy and while that may be true there was more to the story in 2021 Ridley revealed that after taking a trip to see where the
Movie was going to be filmed in Mexico and the AER conditions he would have to deal with he told deenus he couldn’t do it Scott would end up going back to the movie he passed on just before taking
Dune Blade Runner it was suddenly 1981 and no Dune yet the 9-year film rights deenus had was about to expire hot off of Flash Gordon deenus renegotiated the rights and managed to include all Dune sequels even those Unwritten The Elephant Man had come out the previous year and deus’s daughter raphaela
Thought its director David Lynch should make Dune Lynch was quickly gaining popularity after making a racer head and now an Academy Award Best Director for the Elephant Man and was receiving several other offers including directing Star Wars Return of the Jedi he passed on Star Wars
Not feeling like he’d have enough control over the movie he wasn’t really a science fiction fan and admitted to not really liking Star Wars so it’s no surprise that when deenus asked him to direct Dune
Lynch said June no it’s Dune Lynch had never heard of it but he read the novel and was so excited the same day he finished it he met with de la renes in his office and signed on when I finished the
Novel I was just knocked out I’d seen Star Wars of course but to be honest I wasn’t all that crazy about it for me there was just too much on the surface of that film and nothing else Dune was
Different it had believable characterizations and depth in many ways Herbert had created an internal Adventure one with a lot of emotion and physical textures and I love textures Lynch worked on the script initially planning to turn the story into two films but it was eventually condensed into
One the talk behind the scenes was that there would eventually be three films as the producers thought they were making Star Wars for grown-ups in early 1983 the production went to Mexico City to set up at Churubusco Studios and begin casting the most important casting would be for the main
Character Paula tradies today it’s hard to imagine anyone but Kyle mclin as Paul but Val Kilmer was very nearly cast as the star of Dune Kilmer along with Tom Cruz Kevin cers and others according to David Lynch’s Dune and oral history Cruz had difficulty with Herbert’s language during the
Screen test ultimately they felt like he was too young for the role just coming off Risky Business he was babyfaced and they wanted someone a little more mature cner didn’t have the inner strength they were looking for to play Paul malde and came across as nervous during the audition the
Role was Kilmer’s although deenus didn’t like the shape of his lips and then mclin read for the role straight out of a Seattle area theater he hit it off with Lynch and the director immediately liked him feeling he had the inner strength that they were looking for to pull off Paul ma other
Notable castings included Shong young as Chie young was coming off a role opposite Harrison Ford in Bladerunner most people remember her as the main antagonist Ein horn and Finkle from Ace Ventura Pet Detective she is suffering from the worst case of hemorrhoids Dean Stockwell
Had been a child actor in the 40s and had been bouncing around doing guest spots and TV shows for 30 years until he had to move his family to New Mexico to start selling real estate just to
Make ends meet a huge fan of Dune Stockwell found out the movie was being made in Mexico and decided to go down and try to get a role in the film Lynch who was thrown off by seeing the
Man told Stockwell the cast was complete but when John Hurt exited the project the role of Dr Wellington U went to Stockwell Lynch later told Stockwell that the reason he’ been looking at him so strangely is because he thought he had died the role would end up reigniting stockwell’s career
Eventually helping him land the role of Al in the Quantum Leap TV show hi cutie you look great and powder blue Patrick Stewart now the most famous person from the cast after his roles as Captain
Jean Luke Bard in Star Trek and Professor X in the X-Men was handpicked by Lynch to play gurnie HCK after seeing him on stage performing as a Long gray-haired cadaverous Henry the 4th but when Stuart arrived in Mexico for filming Lynch didn’t recognize him he thought he was hiring a Haggard
Old man with hair instead of the 44-year-old verl Stewart but at that point Stewart was already a replacement for Aldo Ray who left the film for health reasons so Stuart got the role actress Glenn Close nearly got the role as Jessica Paul’s mother but they didn’t feel like she was pretty
Enough close would go on to put a bullet in Robert Redford’s character on the natural and the role of Jessica would go to Franchesca Annis sting was cast as fade rala but he didn’t want to be
In the film he didn’t think doing a big film was good for his career but Lynch hopped on a plane and flew to London and convinced him to be in the movie the best story from the set about sting had
To do with Patrick Stewart who had no idea who the singer was when he told Stuart he was in a band called the police Stuart said oh what kind of band he said the police I said you play in a
Police band other notable cast members included Brad Dorff Richard Jordan Virginia Madson Max von siden Kenneth McMillan Linda Hunt and Everett McGill after 200 men spent 2 months crawling on their hands hands and knees over 3 square miles of the seala dun Fields clearing it of
Rattlesnakes scorpions and every inch of cactus filming finally began March 30th 1983 Dune was a huge production it required 80 sets built on 16 sound stages and a crew of 1,700 people with over 20,000 extras with a $40 million budget delarentis wanted to shoot in Mexico to take
Care of the favorable exchange rate but you have to take the good with the bad with telephones and Power going out regularly it was difficult to sew costumes build props or just use the Xerox machine access to facilities were also a problem during the first month and a half of the shoot 15%
Of the crew was in the hospital with varying illnesses eventually the team would get into a rhythm working together to get the film done shooting would last for 6 months upon completion the rough cut without post- production effects ran over 4 hours long David Lynch’s intended cut was
Almost 3 hours long however you Universal Pictures and the movie’s Finance years expected a standard 2hour cut of the movie to reduce the runtime deor rentis and Lynch edited numerous scenes filmed new scenes that simplified or concentrated plot elements and added voiceover narrations plus a new
Introduction by Virginia Madson the movie would spend another 6 months in post- production and 9 months in editing the film opened on December 14th 1984 in 915 theaters earning over $6 million in its opening weekend and ra ranking number two at the box office behind Beverly Hills Cop during
The release cheat sheets explaining much of the movie’s setting and its more obscure vocabulary were handed out to movie goers at some theaters it’s not a good sign if you have to explain the movie to people before they watch it Dune would go on to earn nearly $31 million at the end of
Its run but with a budget of 42 million it was considered a box office disappointment Dune was 34th at the box office in 1984 finishing behind Conan the Destroyer termin in 2010 among other movies and a movie that was still making money in 1984 and was a colossal number one at the box
Office for 1983 Star Wars Return of the Jedi the movie David Lynch had turned down to make matters worse the reviews were not good Roger eert gave Dune one star and wrote this movie is a real mess an incomprehensible ugly unstructured pointless Excursion into the murkier Realms of one
Of the most confusing screenplays of all time he would later name it the worst movie of the year and said quote if I haven’t made myself clear I hated watching this movie unquote ouch because of the poor performance all future sequels were cancelled Lynch had been working on a script
For Dune Messiah as he had been hired to also direct the second and third films over the years the truth of what happened to Dune 1984 finally came out in 2006 Lynch spoke candidly about his
Experience making the movie Dune I didn’t have Final Cut on it’s the only film I’ve made that I didn’t have I didn’t technically have final cut on the Elephant Man but Mel Brooks gave it to me Lynch knew from the beginning that he wouldn’t have the final decision on the movie and admitted
He started selling out even in the script phase for him it was a slow dying death and a terrible terrible experience to this day he still doesn’t know how it happened he trusted that it would work
Out but he admits to being very naive and made the wrong decision in those days the maximum number they figured I could have is 2 hours and 17 minutes so they wouldn’t lose a screening per
Day so that’s what the length of the film is it was money talking and it hurt Patrick Stewart has said in interviews that every cast member lost two scenes to Cuts made during the editing of Dune according to Franchesca Annis who played lady Jessica deenus and David Lynch’s different
Views as well as de laus’s creative interventions contributed to the movie’s poor performance Lynch doesn’t like talking about Dune but he admits that as soon as he signed away Final Cut he started making a film that he thought deenus would accept instead of the movie he wanted to
Make looking back he admits it’s no one’s fault but his own he regrets making Dune and has even insisted his name be taken off of some versions and after years of saying there wasn’t enough for a director’s cut no it doesn’t exist during an article for Esquire in 2022 Lynch did say a
Director’s cut could happen we’ll have to wait and see there’s more stuff but even that uh is is is putrified as for Frank Herbert what did he think about the movie version of his book well he liked
It he thought it captured the book well he said of course it leaves out scenes but it would have to otherwise we’d be here 14 hours everyone knew Dune would need more time on screen to tell the proper
Story following Lynch’s Dune the feeling that the book was adaptable for the big screen became popular opinion and any thoughts at giving it another try disappeared for more than a decade another popular book from a famous author was having the same problem Stephen King had been
Trying to turn the 1,440 page book The Stand into a 2-hour movie since 1982 you can imagine the trouble when considering what Lynch had to go through condensing dun’s 896 pages into a 2hour and 17-minute movie then in 1992 they found a solution for the stand a TV miniseries
Producer Richard Rubenstein who had been working on the project for years got it aired on ABC in May 1994 it won six Prime Time mems and was so successful he made another Stephen King miniseries the langle ear in 1995 looking for more fantastic stories that could be told in
This way Ruben Stein picked up the screen rights to the Doom novels the very next year now he just needed the right vehicle to get it out to fans as luck would have it the Sci-Fi channel which
Had been operating since 1992 was in need of more and more original programming Farscape had just started its four-year run in 1999 and Rubenstein had brought in John Harrison to write and direct the Dune series once it got picked up in November of that year Harrison pitched three twoh hour
Movies to air as a miniseries on the young Network and sci-fi gave the green light with a $20 million budget after scouting desert locations around the world Harrison made the decision to make the movie completely on sound stages in Prague in the Czech Republic Not only was it the most costeffective
Place to shoot but it also had the biggest sound stages in Europe and this would give him the ability to create environments that can’t be found on Earth the miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune was released on December 3rd 2000 Alec Newman was cast as Paul but the biggest star in the series
Was William Hurt who played Duke Leo at traes it was a dream part for the actor who had been a huge fan of Herbert’s novels Frank Herbert’s Dune was a huge success for the Sci-Fi channel averaging 4
4 million viewers over the three nights it aired it also won two Emmy Awards in 2001 for outstanding cinematography and outstanding visual effects although the graphics don’t stand up today they are very complimentary to the style TV shows were being made at the time sci-fi’s Dune
Kicked off a whole string of miniseries on the channel including Frank Herbert’s The Children of Dune which covered Herbert’s next two novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune Alec Newman was back as Paul with Susan Sarandon Alice C and James macavoy also starring what both miniseries
Lacked in action it made up for in staying true to the novels which made Dune fans very happy at the time Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune won another prime time Emmy for Outstanding special visual effects and would eventually pave the way for sci-fi Channel’s biggest miniseries Battle
Star Galactica the story of Dune had finally been told completely inaccurately how long would it be before the visuals and the story could come together for a big budget theatrical release Dune has so many interesting connections with the Lord of the Rings Arthur C Clark basically called
It the Lord of the Rings of Science Fiction and its author Jr tolken couldn’t stand the book and refused to review it then in 2003 the 1,178 pages of The Lord of the Rings novels did something else
For Dune it got made properly by Peter Jackson winning 17 Academy Awards out of 30 nominations it was proof that Dune could finally be made in all its glory on the big screen following the Dune
Miniseries on sci-fi and the success of the Lord of the Rings Dune was coming into a prime position to be made for theatrical release again in August 2007 Byron Merritt the grandson of Herbert posted in an online Forum that negotiations for a new Dune movie had been in the works for over
2 years and they were very close to making a deal Rubenstein who still owns the rights following the miniseries made a deal with Paramount Pictures Paramount chose director Peter Berg to make the movie as he had recently done the kingdom some of which had been filmed on location in Abu Dhabi the
United Arab Emirates Berg left the project in 2009 to go work on battleship in March 2011 Paramount canel the project unable to come to terms with Rubenstein over an extension of rights that same year Mary parent who’d been an executive producer on the kingdom acquired the rights and when she
Joined Legend legendary entertainment in 2016 they acquired the rights in November that year director Deni villanu had already expressed interest in the project earlier that year saying it would be a longstanding dream of his to adapt Dune parent was impressed with his enthusiasm and
Hired him once he described his vision to her it was February 2017 and neither vnu nor parent wanted to rush the project he chose to complete the other two projects He had committed to First with arrival and Blade Runner 2049 that would give him time to co-write Dune himself in March 2018
Vnu went to parent and told her that he needed to make the movie in two parts she agreed with him and he secured a twov deal with Warner Brothers Pictures similar to the two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s It in 2017 in 2019 considering the mistakes of the Lynch film being shortened and the
Success of longer movies being made in Parts it was an easy decision for the studio although they officially held off on a green light for part two until the first part had been released by May 2018
A first draft of the script was done covering the first half of the events of Dune vnu had seen Lynch’s adaptation of the story and while he respected the filmmaker in the film he chose not
To build on any of the elements from it he wanted to go back to the book and look for the images that came out of what he read he felt that his love for Dune would allow him to focus on his own
Vision and he wanted to recreate the experience he had felt when he initially read the book as a teenager with a script and a schedule in place who would be in the movie for Paul vnu wanted an actor
Who was an old soul in the body of a teenager he wanted Timothy shalam in the role and would later admit that he had no alternative choices in mind shalam had previously auditioned for a role in Vil
New’s movie Prisoners back in 2013 and didn’t get it shalomay traveled to the can’s Film Festival to discuss the role with vnu shalamay entered into final negotiations for the role in July 2018 in September Rebecca Ferguson who had been in the mission impost Possible movies began talks to play
Lady Jessica Ferguson was initially dismissive of the role feeling lady Jessica was too similar to her previous roles and didn’t want to be typ cast as a strong female character after seeing V new’s vision and reading the novel she completely fell in love with the character and signed on to play
The role in January 2019 Guardians of the Galaxy muscle and comic relief Dave Bautista was offered the serious role of Glu raban following a phone call from the director vnu wanted Stell and scarg guard to play Baron Vladimir harkonen because he found him intimidating Skarsgard would end
Up spending 8 hours a day getting in his makeup for the role which he admitted later gave him some anxiety vnu personally contacted Charlotte rampling to play gas Helen rampling was previously eyed to play Lady Jessica in jarowski Doom once Oscar Isaac heard the film was in development
He contacted VNV and told him he wanted a star in it it would be 2 years before vnu sent him a script and agreed to cast him as duke Leo as for and Dia she auditioned for the role of Chie
Alongside five other actresses not only did she have the best chemistry with shalam but vuv said Zenia made him believe she had been raised on an alien planet Jason mimoa was surprised when he got a call for the role of Duncan Idaho while he was snowboarding down a mountain he later contacted
Vnu and accepted the role surprised he didn’t have to audition he’d always had to audition for all of his other roles Josh Brolin wasn’t selected by vnu Brolin had come into legendary to pitch another another project not only did they like the project he wanted to do but they told him
They just found their gurnie hoc vnu called Javier bardam directly and offered him the role of sgar bardam was shocked because he had also wanted to portray sgar comparing the role to his personal love for Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings filming began on March 18th 2019 at orio film studios in
Budapest Hungary filming also took place in W rum Jordan which doubled for oracus the Lewa Oasis in the United Arab Emirates also served as a key backdrop for oracus scenes featuring rock formations the fman use as heat shields were filmed in the rube alali desert in Abu Dhabi and
Planet kaladan was shot in Stan landit Norway filming wrapped on July 26th 2019 the movie had 1200 VFX shots and with 18 tons of sand used on sets it was mentioned earlier in this history Han Zimmer who was born the same year Herbert came up with the idea for Dune was the composer
On the film he spent week in the Utah desert alone capturing natural sounds to inspire his score a huge fan of Dune Zimmer passed on doing tenant with Christopher Nolan so we could compose Dune Dune was originally going to be released on November 20th 2020 which was then pushed back to December 18th the film was then delayed by the covid-19 pandemic and planned for release October 1st 2021 but to avoid competition with no time to die they moved the film’s American
Release to October 22nd over a month before being released in North America the film had been released internationally just a week before the movie was being released Warner Brothers announced Dune would be available to watch on HBO Max on October 21st already disappointed
That the pandemic affected his film’s roll out vuv became the most vocal opponent of Warner Brothers decision to release Dune to the theaters and streaming simultaneously he told variety that AT&T Warner Brothers parent company has hijacked one of the most respectable and important Studio
Films in history he accused them of having no love for Cinema or the audience with their decision as it would turn out the simultaneous release on streaming would seem to have little effect on Dune part 1 the movie would go on to make nearly $435 million worldwide with a 2hour and 35-minute
Runtime with a budget of 165 million a theatrical release of Dune was finally a success and with an 83% certified fresh and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes it was agreed that the first half of the Dune epic was a visual Masterpiece and a thrilling adaptation longtime fans felt
They’d finally got a movie that both looked and sounded amazing and they would be waiting on the had already been assured heard a couple weeks earlier that the sequel was 100% happening one of the key points of negotiation before part two was green lit was assuring the sequel would have
An exclusive window where it would only be shown theatrically with legendary and Warner Brothers eventually agreeing to give Dune part two a 45-day window before it would be available through other channels vuv said this theatrical exclusion was a non-negotiable condition and
That the theatrical experience is at the very heart of cinematic language for him in March 2022 two Florence Pew and Austin Butler were in talks to star in the film as Princess eilon and fade rala Butler who had been impressive in the Elvis Presley biopic was offered the rule while
Having coffee with vnu no audition required he trained for 4 months in Budapest using a fitness regime made by an ex-navy seal member VNV described his performance as being a cross between role was based off of skarsgard’s performance in 2021s Dune when he first met Skarsgard he spoke to
Him in his own voice Skarsgard said he laughed so much because it was obvious Butler enjoyed being evil in May 2022 Christopher Walkin joined the cast as Emperor shotam the fourth production work for part two had occurred back-to-back with the first film but principal photography began
In July 2022 Han Zimmer also returned for part two composing 90 minutes of music just to get Vil newv inspired while writing Dune part 2 was originally scheduled to be released on October 20th 2023 but was ultimately moved to March 1st 2024 as a result of the writer strike as
Of the making of this video Advanced tickets for the film have surpassed Oppenheimer and it’s projected to gross around $170 million for its worldwide debut Dune part two is a huge success one of the early fresh reviews says now we know Frank Herbert’s Dune can be filmed
Successfully another calls it a science fiction Masterpiece once the dust settles Dune part two will exceed the international earnings of part one making the 5H hour and 26-minute combined movie a billion dooll franchise with the success of vn’s Dune he’s already started working on the
Sequel book Dune Messiah although he is taking his time with it he wants it to be the best movie possible and while we are still currently waiting for Dune Messiah to be greenlit the fact that vnu
Says he’s already nearly done with the script is a great sign we’ll be seeing the studio backing soon Dune has been widely influential inspiring numerous novels music films television games and comic books it is considered one of the greatest and most influential science fiction novels of all
Time with numerous modern science fiction Works owing their existence to Dune Dune has also been referenced in numerous other works including Star Trek Chron of Ric the king killer Chronicles and Futurama in 1977 David Matthews became one of the first artists to dedicate an entire composition to
Dune publishing an album of the same name on CTI records the heavy metal band Iron Maiden wrote the song to Tame a Land Based on the Dune story it appears as the closing track to their 1983 album peace of mind the original working title of the song was Dune however the band was
Denied permission to use it with Frank Herbert’s agent saying Frank Herbert doesn’t like rock bands particularly heavy rock bands and especially bands like Iron Maiden then in 1992 was Dune 2 which established the conventions of modern real-time strategy games and is considered to be
Among the most influential video games of all time Rick Priestley cites Dune as a major influence on his 1987 war game Warhammer 40,000 in 2023 funcom announced Dune Awakening an upcoming massively multiplayer online game set in the universe of Dune the game is scheduled for release sometime
In 2024 and will be available on most gaming platforms the Apollo 15 astronauts named a small crater on Earth’s Moon after the novel during the 1971 Mission and the name was formally adopted by the international astronomical Union in 1973 since 2009 the names of planets from the dun novels have
Been adopted for the realworld nomenclature for planes and other features on Saturn’s moon Titan like oracus pla even after nearly 60 years it doesn’t feel like the story on Dune is complete perhaps it never will be but with a hope for future Dune movies and an upcoming massive online
Video game it’s clear that Humanity continues to be compelled by the universe that Frank Herbert created but what do you think how do you feel about Herbert’s novels how do you feel about the onscreen adaptations that have followed including the most recent movie and what would you like to
See happen in the future for the Dune franchise let’s talk about it in the comments below and also don’t forget to click on the link at the end of this video and check out this incredible Dune inspired graphic design from the amazing artist atmx tees.com get 20% off your purchase
By using coupon code the podcast the link is in the description below until next [Music] time
23 Comments
What do you think about the History of Dune? Did the Recent Movies finally do the franchise justice? Also, here is our one of a kind Dune inspired Graphic Design from the video >> https://mixedtees.com/thespice – Use coupon code: THEPOPCAST for 20% off!
I just finished the first book.
Unfortunately, for all of us, this is the most BORING / milk-toast version of Paul there EVER has been. WHY people are calling this version so great is BEYOND me because the actors (with the exeption of Mamoa) seem to be so damn boring. THe 1984's acting cast is FAR superior to this movie's and even the SCi-Fi's version had more interesting characters. Sorry Dune but Christopher Walken can't save you……because he's not playing Christoper Walken and his real acting chops are being restrained. The Patric Stewart Gurney Haleck is FAR superior 🙂
nuff said?
Hillary as a "psychopatic killer" is an absolute GEM and ….. probably true.
you left out the extended version of Lynch's dune
A fantastic video. But guys come on, it really doesn't take that long to learn how to correctly pronounce names.
I’ve first read Dune when I was 15 and have been re-reading the book roughly every 2 years since then. I’m now… actually never mind that. The point is this is a pretty solid piece. And I was actually ready not to like it because of the use of the word “franchise” but no, this is extremely well researched (I learned quite a bit actually which, of course, I didn’t think I would). I subscribe. Kudos kids! (I said never mind that…)
Most comprehensive???? Rebecca Ferguson has said in more than one interview that she has never finished reading “Dune”. Comprehensive? I’ll stop there….
hey, you guys, mm I would like to know your opinion on the end of Quantum Leap season 2. specifically, who did Adison leap into? Or who leaped out so she could leap in. What do you think of the theory that Sam just leaped home? And do you think that it's going to get a season 3?
This video is outstanding – superb job which is why I love being a member of this channel and #1 Mexican PopCast fan boy!
Rebecca Ferguson has never read the novel. She confirmed this again on Colbert last month. The film didn´t win Best Picture either. It infamously only won Below The Line Oscars and wasn´t up for a prestigious award, like Best Director or any of the action categories.
thanks… this is great! ⚡⚡⚡take care
Dr. DUUUUUUUUUNE
Oh yeah. DEAN STOCKWELL BABY
The views must flow!
Awesome
This is one big sci-fi franchise where I've generally had a blind spot. Thanks for catching me up! 😊
The only shame is that Villeneuve uses his extra time for long shots into nothing and replaces the deleted stuff with his own.
This was a fantastic video!!
I have to pick up a copy of the series.
I love this film history stuff.
Loved this presentation. Thank you
This is not the finally realised screen adaptation, not unless you're drinking the kool aid. There were directions Villeneuve took the movie which were far away from the book. Jessica's scheming to make Paul accept his destiny. Chani's secular stance verged on insolence. Most importantly, where is the spacing guild? It was their intervention which pre-empted any retaliation from the houses, choam and the gesserit's. No, Dune remains unfilmable,.