DUNE: Denis Villeneuve Spent A Year Getting Sandworms Right
Mike Sprague
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Director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune with Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, and Josh Brolin will be unleashed this December. And today Villeneuve revealed it took a year to do Arrakis’s signature creatures, the sandworms justice.
Villeneuve tells Empire: “We talked about every little detail that would make such a beast possible, from the texture of the skin, to the way the mouth opens, to the system to eat its food in the sand. It was a year of work to design and to find the perfect shape that looked prehistoric enough.”
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Based on the novel(s) by Frank Herbert, Dune takes place in the year 10191 and centers on a spice called melange, the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source, the desert planet Arrakis. Arrakis is awarded to Duke Leto Atreides over his enemies, the Harkonnens. The Harkonnens then violently seize back Arrakis and it is up to Paul, Leto’s son, to lead the natives of Arrakis in a battle for control of the planet and its spice.
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It stars Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica, Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck, Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Dave Bautista as Glossu Rabban, Zendaya as Chani, David Dastmalchian as Piter De Vries, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam, Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho, Javier Bardem as Stilgar, and Chang Chen as Dr. Wellington Yueh.
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Directed by Villeneuve the reboot is produced by Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Joe Caracciolo, Jr., and Villeneuve from a screenplay by Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Villeneuve based on Frank Herbert’s novel(s). It hits on December 18, 2020.
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