Product Information
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.Product Identifiers
EAN5038456250088
eBay Product ID (ePID)3945714
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
Aspect Ratio4:3 Full Frame
Film/TV TitleDune
DirectorDavid Lynch
Release Year2000
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesTheatrical Trailer\New Liner Notes\Booklet With Production Stills\Reproduction Of Original Film Poster
GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General
Run Time180 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Production DesignerAnthony Masters
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.
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.
Art DirectorPierluigi Basile
MusicToto
Costume DesignerBob Ringwood
CinematographerFreddie Francis
SoundAlan Splet
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Sound sourceDolby Digital Mono