Dune Movie (2021)

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1. Composer Hans Zimmer is a big fan of the novel Dune, and turned down working with frequent collaborator Christopher Nolan on Tenet (2020) to score this film. For the same reason, Denis Villeneuve was the top choice but turned down the offer to direct the Bond film No Time to Die (2021).
2. Denis Villeneuve saw Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) as a "rhino in human form," and so Skarsgård had to spend seven hours a day applying makeup for his role as the Baron.
3. A spin-off prequel series titled Dune: The Sisterhood was announced for HBO Max while the film was being promoted. Originally, Dune writer Jon Spaihts was announced as showrunner, but he stepped down to focus on writing Dune: Part Two (2023) instead.
4. The scenes on the ocean world of Caladan were shot in Stadlandet, Norway. Much of the desert scenes on the desert world of Arrakis were shot in Jordan and Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East.
5. This film sports a distinctly Arabic theme, in keeping with author Frank Herbert having used Islamic culture as an influence for his story.
6. The helmets of the Harkonnen soldiers were based on the heads of insects.
7. Sting was considered for a cameo/small role in this film after he starred as Feyd-Rautha in David Lynch's Dune (1984). The character ended up omitted from the 2021 adaptation.
8. In Dune (1984), all the Harkonnen were depicted as red-haired. In this movie they are all depicted as bald.
9. Rebecca Ferguson plays the mother of Timothée Chalamet despite being only 12 years older than him. However Chalamet is playing a 15-year-old, so that makes it a 20 year age difference for the characters.
10. Cinematographer Greig Fraser revealed that though the film was originally shot digitally on the ARRI Alexa LF, director Denis Villeneuve transferred the picture onto 35mm film and then scanned the film back to digital.
11. Denis Villeneuve's first time producing one of his films.
12. Actor Timothée Chalamet was 23 when he played Paul Atreides, two years younger than Kyle MacLachlan when he played the same role in Dune (1984). In the novel, Paul was 15 years old.
13. Denis Villeneuve's third consecutive science fiction film after Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
14. Denis Villeneuve's first film to be shot on large format cameras and with Panavision lenses.
15. The character of Liet Kynes, portrayed by Sharon Duncan-Brewster, has been gender-swapped from the books. He was previously portrayed by Max von Sydow in Dune (1984) and by Karel Dobrý (as Dr. Pardot Kynes/Liet) in the mini-series Dune (2000).
16. #1 on Letterboxd's Most Anticipated list as of January 2021. It has maintained this spot for over a year.
17. Many parallels of Islamic theology can be noted as referenced by novelist Frank Herbert.
18. The score was recorded by Hans Zimmer during COVID lock down. Zimmer's team turned his sitting room into a studio which was next to his daughter's room. He recalls, "She will tell everybody that she suffers from bagpipe PTSD, because it's 5:30 in the morning and I'm still blasting away and the whole house is shaking."
19. Hans Zimmer spent a week in the deserts of Utah alone to assimilate some of the sounds of the landscape into his thinking for the score.
20. The producers wanted Emma Roberts to play the role of Princess Irulan, but the star gave up because of the busy schedule.
21. The plot of "Dune" shares many similarities to Shakespeare's "Henry V." A callow youth ascends to the throne and is matured by personal loss and hardened by battle. Timothee Chalamet portrayed Henry V in The King (2019).
22. The plot of "Dune" shares many similarities to Shakespeare's "Henry V." A callow youth ascends to the throne and is matured by personal loss and hardened by battle. Timothee Chalamet portrayed Henry V in The King (2019).
23. Very little is seen of the Guild Navigators. The film does not show whatever happens in the jump from star to star.
24. (October 5, 2020) Warner Bros. announced that the film would be delayed from December 18, 2020 to October 1, 2021.
25. David Dastmalchian's third movie with director Denis Villeneuve, following Prisoners (2013) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
26. Some new musical instruments were created specially for the film's soundtrack.
27. Charlotte Rampling - who is bilingual - dubbed herself for the French version of the film.
28. For the first trailer, Hans Zimmer gathered a 32-person choir via FaceTime to cover Pink Floyd's song "Eclipse" (this was in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic) with Zimmer conducting from home.
29. The film was leaked online on October 17, 2021, less than a week before its American premiere.
30. Reunites Josh Brolin (Gurney Halleck) and Javier Bardem (Stilgar) on-screen 14 years after starring in No Country for Old Men (2007).

• Filming Location

  Wadi Rum, Jordan, Stadlandet, Norway

• Production Details

  Warner Bros,. Legendary Entertainment, Villeneuve Films

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