7.21.2021

Dune: The Alternative Edition Redux




 

A film that’s been admired, hated and puzzled-over in fairly equal amounts, writer/director David Lynch’s ambitious 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel gets an extensive fanediting treatment in Dune The Alternative Edition Redux. This is my third and final cut of an edit I first released in 2008 and again in 2009. As previously, it draws on the heavily cut Theatrical Version, the controversial Extended “TV” Version and a selection of Deleted Scenes and soundtrack cues.


7.20.2021

Dune 2021 Litany Against Fear


I must not fear. 
Fear is the mind-killer. 
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. 
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. 
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. 
Only I will remain.

ABOUT THE FILM 
Dune is an upcoming epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Villeneuve, and Eric Roth. based on the novel of the same name written by Frank Herbert.

 Villeneuve also produced the film with Mary Parent, Cale Boyter and Joe Caracciolo, Jr. The executive producers are Tanya Lapointe, Joshua Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Jon Spaihts, Thomas Tull, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert.

The film is an international co-production of Canada, Hungary, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, which will cover roughly the first half of the book. 

Cast 
 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 
 Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat 
 Zendaya as Chani 
 David Dastmalchian as Piter De Vries 
 Chang Chen as Dr. Wellington Yueh 
 Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Dr. Liet-Kynes 
 Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam 
 Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho 
 Javier Bardem as Stilgar
 

Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Blade Runner 2049”) directs Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune,” the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestselling book.

 A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. 

As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.