..Arrakis / Dune A filmbook 1996-2004 Vers. 3.0
Facts of D U N E

The original rough cut of the movie Dune was over 5 hours in duration

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The visual variety of the Dune movie demanded 80 sets built upon 16 sound stages

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More than 6 years in the making. The movie Dune employed David Lynch's talents for 3.5 years

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Kyle MacLachlan claimed Dune to be his bible and has read it every year since the age of 14

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The total number of production crew on the Dune movie came to a grand total of 1700

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Immediately after completion of Dune. David Lynch started writing the screen plays for Dune 2 and Dune 3. A project that never came to fruition

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To underline the plot of the Houses of Dune. Designer Anthony Masters created the environment to represent the feuding times of the renascence in Italy

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One of David Lynch's favourite characters in the movie Dune is the Guild Navigator. Although Lynch felt he could have been stranger

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Although it is said that Dune did not perform at the box office. The movie was the 6th biggest earner of 1984 and reached number 2 in Germany , Japan and France

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David Lynch turn down the offer to direct "Return of the Jedi" before beginning production of the filming of Dune

 

 

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