Ultimately, however, the biggest difference between the two adaptations is Villeneuve's luxury to tell Herbert's story over ...
Director Denis Villeneuve has had a lot of success with his recent Dune movies, which stars Timothée Chalamet as lead ...
No one could ever say that Lynch doesn’t have an eye for talent, as the cast of Dune is filled with excellent performers including his future Twin Peaks star, Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides.
In 1984, David Lynch, fresh off The Elephant Man, passed on directing Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi and chose to adapt Dune instead. Reviewing A Masterpiece In Disarray: David Lynch ...
"It would be very easy to make a bad film of Dune…" –Ridley Scott, South Bend Tribune, 1979 This week marks the 40th anniversary of David Lynch's Dune. A $40 million box office disaster upon ...
In other words: It’s incredibly difficult to make Dune work on the screen, to the point where even David Lynch called his 1984 adaptation “a failure” — he’s right, but its sheer ...
While Tarantino dismissed Villeneuve's Dune as just another remake, the French-Canadian director clarified that he respects ...
The cuts that were made are even more noticeable after watching the remakes, and perhaps Lynch would have been better served by splitting his movie as well. Some of the special effects in Dune are ...