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Young Paul Atreides strugglers to gain control of Dune, an arid planet dominated by giant sandworms, but rich in a priceless life-giving substance. Based on Frank Herbert's best selling science fiction novel, with screenplay written by David Lynch. Features an extra thirty-five minutes of unseen footage and prologue.

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EAN5706152320823

eBay Product ID (ePID)102995909

Product Key Features

ActorJose Ferrer, Sean Young, Kenneth Mcmillan, Kyle MacLachlan, Max von Sydow, Sting, Dean Stockwell, Francesca Annis, Sian Phillips, Jurgen Prochnow, Everett McGill

Film/TV TitleDune

DirectorDavid Lynch

FormatDVD

Release Year2011

LanguageEnglish

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Production DesignerAnthony Masters

ReviewsTime Out - it gets under your skin and is marked by unforgettable images and an extraordinary soundtrack., Variety - DUNE is a huge, hollow, imaginative and cold sci-fi epic.

Additional InformationDavid Lynch's baroque rendering of Frank Herbert's detailed, complex, and deliberately paced epic science-fiction novel is a muddled but visually stunning affair. It's 10991, and the desert planet Dune has been taken over by the Harkonnens, oppressive conquerors who desire the precious spice that lies beneath Dune's arid sands. The story concerns the attempts of a young warrior messiah, Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan), to lead the native inhabitants in an uprising against the evil empire--and battle the giant man-eating worms that guard the coveted spice.<BR>Lynch shot much more footage than ended up in the finished film, but executive producer Dino De Laurentiis didn't want a three-hour-plus sci-fi epic on his hands, so he coerced Lynch into trimming it. The result is one of cinema's most infamous cases of personal vision colliding with studio politics. Nonetheless, Lynch still manages to cram in so many visual ideas and captures the tone of the book so well that these production issues can be easily set aside once the story starts rolling. Refusing to further edit the film for television, Lynch took his name off the director and screenwriter credits. As troubling as DUNE might have been for Lynch, the experience greatly inspired 1986's brilliant BLUE VELVET, for which audiences should be thankful.

Art DirectorPierluigi Basile

MusicToto

Costume DesignerBob Ringwood

SoundAlan Splet

CinematographerFreddie Francis

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleDune