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Dune (2021 film)

August 25, 2023

Dune (titled onscreen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis. The ensemble cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem and David Dastmalchian.

Dune
Release poster
Directed byDenis Villeneuve
Screenplay by
Based onDune
by Frank Herbert
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGreig Fraser
Edited byJoe Walker
Music byHans Zimmer
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • September 3, 2021 (2021-09-03) (Venice)
  • October 22, 2021 (2021-10-22) (United States)
Running time
155 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$165 million[2]
Box office$402 million[3]

The film is the third adaptation of Dune following David Lynch's 1984 film and John Harrison's 2000 television miniseries. After an unsuccessful attempt by Paramount Pictures to produce a new adaptation, Legendary Entertainment acquired the Dune film and television rights in 2016, with Villeneuve signing on as director in February 2017. Production contracts were only secured for the first film, relying on its success before a sequel would be greenlit. Principal photography took place from March to July 2019 at locations including Budapest, Jordan, Norway, and Abu Dhabi.

Dune was originally scheduled for a late 2020 release, but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021, ahead of its international release on September 15; it was then released in United States theaters and streaming on HBO Max on October 22. Dune was a box office success, earning $402 million on a $165 million budget. It was well received by critics and audiences, with praise for Villeneuve's direction and screenplay, the visual effects, ambition, costume design, Hans Zimmer's musical score, cinematography, and faithfulness to the source material. The film was nominated for ten awards at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning six, and received numerous other accolades. It has been widely considered one of the best science-fiction films of the 21st century.[4][5] A direct sequel, Dune: Part Two, is set to be released on March 15, 2024.

Plot Edit

In the distant future, Duke Leto Atreides, ruler of the planet Caladan, is assigned by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV to replace Baron Vladimir Harkonnen as the fiefholder of Arrakis, a harsh desert planet and sole source of "spice", a valuable psychotropic substance that imparts heightened vitality and awareness. Spice is key to interstellar travel, giving Spacing Guild Navigators the ability to guide starships to traverse space instantaneously and safely. Shaddam plots for House Harkonnen to retake Arrakis, secretly aided by his Sardaukar troops, to destroy House Atreides. Leto is suspicious of the Emperor but weighs the risks against the power of controlling Arrakis and making an alliance with its mysterious natives, the Fremen.

Leto's concubine, Lady Jessica, is an acolyte of the Bene Gesserit, an exclusive sisterhood whose members possess advanced physical and mental abilities. As part of their centuries-long breeding program, they instructed her to bear a daughter whose son would become the Kwisatz Haderach, a Bene Gesserit and messianic superbeing with the clairvoyance necessary to guide humanity to a better future. However, she disobeyed and bore a son, Paul. Throughout his life, he is trained by Leto's aides, Duncan Idaho, Gurney Halleck, Suk doctor Wellington Yueh, and the Mentat Thufir Hawat, while Jessica teaches him Bene Gesserit disciplines. Paul confides in Jessica and Duncan that he is troubled by visions of the future. In response to Paul's increasing prescience, the Reverend Mother and Imperial Truthsayer Gaius Helen Mohiam visits Caladan and subjects him to a death-alternative test to assess his humanity and impulse control, which he passes. Mohiam insists that Baron Harkonnen spare Paul and Jessica during his coup, to which he duplicitously agrees.

House Atreides arrives at Arrakeen, the fortress stronghold on Arrakis. Duncan's advance party has made contact with the Fremen. The natives revere Paul and Jessica, which Jessica explains is due to the Bene Gesserit sowing beliefs on Arrakis centuries earlier. Leto negotiates with Fremen chieftain, Stilgar, and meets the Imperial Judge of the Change, Dr. Kynes, a planetologist who lives among the Fremen. Kynes briefs them on the dangers of spice harvesting, and the giant sandworms which travel under the desert and make the use of protective Holtzman shields unwise. During a flight, they dramatically rescue a stranded spice-harvesting crew from a sandworm; Paul's exposure to the spice triggers intense premonitions.

An attempt to assassinate Paul with a hunter-seeker fails. Yueh betrays the Atreides and disables Arrakeen's shields, allowing the Harkonnens and Sardaukar to invade. He incapacitates Leto, planning to exchange him for his wife, who is the Baron's prisoner. Yueh replaces one of Leto's teeth with a poison gas capsule with which the Duke can assassinate the Baron. Leto releases the gas, killing himself and the Baron's Mentat, Piter De Vries, but the Baron survives. Though the Baron has arranged to have Paul and Jessica dropped deep in the desert to die, a compassionate Yueh has left them with stillsuits and other survival supplies. Jessica uses a Bene Gesserit technique called "the Voice" to overpower and kill their captors. Paul and Jessica journey overnight in the desert where Paul, surrounded by spice, has visions of a bloody "holy war" fought across the universe in his name.

Baron Harkonnen gives command of Arrakis to his nephew, Rabban, and orders him to restart spice production to recoup the cost of the invasion. Paul and Jessica are found by Duncan and Kynes, and Paul discloses his plan to marry one of Shaddam's daughters to avert the civil war that would ensue from news of the Emperor's treachery. They are found by the Sardaukar, and Duncan sacrifices himself to allow Paul and Jessica to escape. Kynes is mortally wounded by Sardaukar but summons a sandworm that devours them. In the deep desert, Paul and Jessica encounter Stilgar's tribe, including Chani, the girl in Paul's visions. Fremen warrior Jamis opposes Stilgar's lenience to them and challenges Paul to a ritual duel to the death, which Paul wins. Against Jessica's wishes, Paul joins the Fremen to fulfill his father's goal of bringing peace to Arrakis.

Cast Edit

In addition, members of the supporting cast include:

Production Edit

Background Edit

See also: Dune (novel) § Adaptations, and Dune (franchise)

Shortly after publication in 1965, Dune was identified for potential film prospects and the rights to adapt the novel to film have been held by several producers since 1971. Attempts to make a film were made and it was considered to be "unfilmable" owing to its breadth of content.[8][9][10] Due to the book's status among fans, deviations from the original material without strong justification have the potential to harm the film's reputation.[11]

Alejandro Jodorowsky acquired the rights in the 1970s to make a fourteen-hour adaptation of the book but the project fell through. This effort became the subject of the documentary film Jodorowsky's Dune (2013).[12] David Lynch's Dune, produced by Raffaella De Laurentiis in 1984, was intended as a three-hour film but was cut to 137 minutes; it was poorly received and Lynch himself ended up disowning it.[11][13][14][15] In 1996, the producer Richard P. Rubinstein acquired the rights to the novel. A live-action miniseries produced by Rubinstein and directed by John Harrison, Frank Herbert's Dune, aired on the Sci Fi Channel in 2000; it was a ratings hit and was generally better received than Lynch's film. Some reviewers criticized the miniseries for lacking the spectacle afforded to a feature film production and for staying too faithful to the book and being dragged down by exposition.[16][17] Prospects to make a successful adaptation of Dune improved after the critical and commercial success of the film series adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, both of which maintained most of the works' key characters and plots while managing the limited running time.[11] In 2008, Paramount Pictures brought on Peter Berg to direct an adaptation.[18] Berg left the project in October 2009,[19] with director Pierre Morel brought on to direct in January 2010.[20] Paramount dropped the project in March 2011, as they could not come to key agreements, with their rights reverting to Rubinstein.[21][22]

Development Edit

 
Denis Villeneuve said that adapting Dune was a lifelong ambition. He was hired to direct in February 2017.

In 2011, Mary Parent, vice chair of worldwide production for Legendary Entertainment, and Cale Boyter, her producer partner, managed to acquire adaptation rights for Dune.[23] Eventually, Legendary acquired the film and TV rights for Dune in November 2016.[24][25] Variety reported in December 2016 that Denis Villeneuve was in talks with the studio to direct the film.[26] Villeneuve had expressed his interest in the project in September 2016, saying that "a longstanding dream of mine is to adapt Dune, but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed".[27] Villeneuve's enthusiasm to direct a Dune film earned Parent's respect, who called Villeneuve, and quickly hired him after Villeneuve described his vision for the film to her. He chose to complete his other films, such as Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), as he wanted to spend more time to develop the film and co-write it himself. He also felt "Dune is my world" due to his background in directing science fiction films.[23][28] Villeneuve had signed on to direct the film by January 2017, approximately a week after earning a nomination Academy Award for Best Director for Arrival.[29] By that February, Villeneuve was officially confirmed to be directing the film.[30]

Some of Villeneuve's previous collaborators on Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 returned for Dune, including film editor Joe Walker,[31] production designer Patrice Vermette, visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert, sound designer and editor Theo Green, sound editor Mark Mangini,[32] and special effects supervisor Gerd Nefzer.[33] Other previous collaborators were slated to work on Dune but dropped out before production began, including visual effects supervisor John Nelson[34] and cinematographer Roger Deakins, who was replaced in December 2018 with Greig Fraser.[35] Dune was produced by Villeneuve, Parent, and Cale Boyter, with Tanya Lapointe, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, Kim Herbert, Thomas Tull, Jon Spaihts, Richard P. Rubinstein, John Harrison, and Herbert W. Gain serving as executive producers and Kevin J. Anderson as creative consultant.[36][37] Game of Thrones language creator David J. Peterson was confirmed to be developing languages for the film in April 2019.[38]

Writing Edit

In March 2018, Villeneuve stated that his goal was to adapt the novel into a two-part film series.[39] He secured a two-movie deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, in the same style as the two-part adaptation of Stephen King's It in 2017 and in 2019. He chose to make two films as he felt that the novel was too large and complex for one.[40] Subsequent dealings secured the production of the first film and new production deals were made to start production for the second.[41]

Eric Roth was hired to co-write the screenplay in April,[42] and Jon Spaihts was later confirmed to be co-writing the script alongside Roth and Villeneuve.[43] By May 2018, Villeneuve finished a first draft of the script.[44][45] Brian Herbert also reiterated that the latest draft covered the first half of Dune by July 2018.[46] Legendary CEO Joshua Grode confirmed in April 2019 that they plan to make a sequel, adding that "there's a logical place to stop the [first] movie before the book is over".[47]

Villeneuve had seen Lynch's adaptation of Dune, and respected both Lynch and the film, but chose not to build on any elements from it, saying "I'm going back to the book, and going to the images that came out when I read it".[48] He elaborated on this, adding that "there are parts that I love and other elements that I am less comfortable with. So it's like, I remember being half-satisfied", and felt he had to make the film with a "different sensibility".[49] Furthermore, he also chose not to incorporate concepts that Jodorowsky had laid out for his attempt for a Dune film in the mid-1970s, as he felt it would be "very presumptuous and arrogant for me to try."[50][51] He later explained that previous adaptations of the novel did not fully intimidate him, as he felt that his love for Dune allowed him to focus on his own vision. He compared his experience of making the film to archaeology, describing the process as "going back in time and finding those images mixed with emotions, and bringing them back to life and trying to honor them as much as possible."[23]

In adapting the book for a contemporary audience, Villeneuve wanted to reflect on realities that have happened since that time related to contemporary over-exploitation of the Earth, and he considered his screenplay "a coming-of-age story, but also a call for action for the youth".[40] He sought to streamline many parts of the novel for the film, and also wanted to keep "the atmosphere and poetry of the book intact".[52] This included eliminating internal monologues and epigraphs used in the book and simplifying the "pseudo-antiquated" dialogue.[23] Instead, he focused the story around Paul and Jessica, giving them a secret hand gesture language they could use to communicate silently to each other. The film also minimizes many of the aspects around the Emperor and the politics surrounding the Imperium, as he believed he could keep the scope of the novel and its exploration of how power is used, while still keeping the focus on Paul's coming-of-age story.[52]

Some characters were given less prominence, such as Baron Harkonnen, members of his court, and the Mentats Thufir Hawat and Piter De Vries, but established enough so that they can be used in the future.[52] He also wanted to move the Baron from being a caricature, as he was presented in the novel, to a more complex antagonist.[40] Another major change was altering some of the arcs of the female characters in the book to give them more respect and prominence, as Villeneuve felt femininity was a crucial theme in the book.[52] According to Rebecca Ferguson, "Denis was very respectful of Frank's work in the book, [but] the quality of the arcs for [many] of the women have been brought up to a new level. There were some shifts he did, and they are beautifully portrayed now."[40] Lady Jessica was given an expanded role as a soldier and member of the Bene Gesserit. As such, the studio labeled this role a "warrior priestess", in contrast to the joking label of "space nun" that Villeneuve felt was implied by the book.[40]

Casting Edit

 
 
 
 
 
 
Top row: Timothée Chalamet (left), Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac respectively play the roles of Paul Atreides, Lady Jessica, and Leto Atreides.
Bottom row: Zendaya (left), Javier Bardem and Stellan Skarsgård respectively play the roles of Chani, Stilgar, and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

Villeneuve had begun the casting process by first determining who would portray Paul Atreides and progress from there. He had also sought to approach actors on an individual basis and felt the final cast was close to his "dream list".[53] For the role, Villeneuve had desired an actor who had "an old soul in the body of a teenager" and had felt Timothée Chalamet had been a perfect choice for the role, later admitting that he had been his primary choice for the role and had no substitute in mind.[54][55] Chalamet had also desired to collaborate with Villeneuve and be in the film, and as such, had travelled to the Cannes Film Festival to meet him personally about the role.[29][56] By July 2018, Chalamet had entered final negotiations to play Paul.[57] Rebecca Ferguson entered negotiations to play Atreides' mother, Lady Jessica, in September 2018, with Chalamet having been confirmed for the role by then.[43] Ferguson was initially dismissive of the role, as she had felt Lady Jessica had been too similar to her previous Mission: Impossible role Ilsa Faust and also desired to not be typecast as "strong female characters".[58] However, she had begun to enjoy the role after Villeneuve had described his vision of the role to her and reading the novel, saying "when I gradually understood the intricate balance of these women — that the ancestral connection that they have, the simplicity of wanting to save something you have created and all of these shades, I completely fell in love with it".[59] Ferguson had been cast by January 2019.[60]

Casting director Francine Maisler had compiled over 30-50 audition tapes from actors for Villeneuve to decide from when casting secondary roles.[61] Dave Bautista was offered the role of Glossu Rabban following a phone call from Villeneuve. He had been an avid fan of Villeneuve and wanted to contact him, but was surprised when Villeneuve contacted him first. He was very proud of being offered the role and accepted it, saying "Moments like that really gauge how far I’ve come, as an actor".[62] Villeneuve desired for Stellan Skarsgård to portray Baron Vladimir Harkonnen as he had found Skarsgård intimidating, and personally contacted Charlotte Rampling in order to portray Gaius Helen Mohiam, and she had accepted as she had admired Villeneuve's work. She was previously eyed to portray Lady Jessica in Jodorowsky's planned adaptation.[63] Once Oscar Isaac had heard the film was in development, he contacted Villeneuve and told him he had been interested in starring in the film. Later on, Villeneuve decided to cast him as Duke Leto, with Isaac commenting the role had suited him physically. Zendaya had auditioned for the role of Chani alongside five other actresses, prior to Euphoria. She was chosen as she was deemed to have the best chemistry with Chalamet.[61] She had also been intent on getting the role after previously auditioning for Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013).[29] Bautista,[64] Skarsgård,[65] Rampling,[66] Isaac,[67] and Zendaya all joined the cast in January 2019.[68]

Javier Bardem,[69] Josh Brolin,[70] Jason Momoa,[71] and David Dastmalchian were cast as Stilgar, Gurney Halleck, Duncan Idaho, and Piter de Vries the next month.[72] Villeneuve had directly called Bardem and had offered him the role, who was shocked. Bardem had wanted to portray Stilgar, comparing it to his personal love for Aragon in The Lord of the Rings. Meanwhile, Brolin had amusingly commented that he pretended to read the script prior to accepting the role while Momoa said he received his casting call while snowboarding down a mountain, then went to contact Villeneuve on a Skype call to confirm his involvement.[56] Dastmalchian's casting was similar to that of Brolin and Momoa's, as he had received a call while he was in his house in Los Angeles, and accepted the role without reading the script due to his confidence in Villeneuve.[73] Stephen McKinley Henderson joined in March,[37] with Chang Chen entering negotiations.[37][74] Maisler's decided to cast Henderson after admiring his work in New York theaters, and curated a list of the "most talented Chinese actors in the world" for the role of Dr. Yueh. The studio contacted Chen's manager in China following difficulties in contacting him. Afterwards, Chen accepted his role as Dr. Yueh in the film. The decision to cast Benjamin Clementine as the Herald of the Change had occurred after Maisler enjoyed his performance in the Tiny Desk Concerts.[61]

In July 2019, it was reported that the film would "gender swap" the character Liet-Kynes by casting Sharon Duncan-Brewster for the role.[75] Duncan-Brewster had auditioned for the role in London through Jina Jay, a casting director who was working with Maisler at the time, saying that she "exudes an intelligence and a power and an inner strength". Later, Maisler then presented a shortlist for the potential cast members, and Villeneuve had picked Duncan-Brewster.[61] Her casting was confirmed in April 2020.[40] The idea to change Kynes's gender was suggested by Jon Spaihts, which Villeneuve promptly accepted.[52] According to Duncan-Brewster, Villeneuve felt it was necessary to capture the essence of the character from the book, but was not necessary to remain consistent with all other facets, and thus opted for this change.[41]

Design Edit

Set and props Edit

The set design for the film was done by production designer Patrice Vermette.[76] Vermette stated that the set design for Dune would be guided by the need "to ground the story into realistic settings to help the audience believe in the extraordinary elements". They sought to make the sets as realistic and immersive as possible, and used minimal set extension, and no greenscreens.[23][77] Prior to the creation of any sets or any visual effects for the film, Villeneuve and a team of select people, including his storyboard artist, and later, concept artist Deak Ferrand, worked together to define the visual language for the film, while Vermette created a "visual bible" to guide the development of the set design and to keep it consistent with the visual effects design used throughout the film and eventually later "came on board to extrapolate the world". He also re-read the novel, as he felt that "the book gives a lot of clues or cues that will help you navigate it to design things, but it's quite nonspecific", adding that he wanted to support Villeneuve's original vision of the novel when he read it as a young teenager, and base the design around Herbert's original novel. The team's early mood boards for the visual language of the film consisted of a variety of images, including ziggurat architecture from Mesopotamia, Egyptian references, bunkers from World War II, brutalist architecture from Brazil and the Soviet Union, megastructures conceived by Superstudio, marble mines, power dams, and imagery of glaciers taking over mountains.[23][77][78][79]

The design for the ornithopthers was conceived by Villeneuve and storyboard artist Sam Hudecki. Villeneuve wanted the ornithopther to resemble a dragonfly and helicopter, describing it as "muscular", but also wanting it to be realistic, adding that he wanted the vehicles to "obey the laws of nature, gravity, and physics". He noted that he thought the overall world of Dune was retro-futuristic and analog. He wanted his team to design the cockpits in a way so that it allowed the actors inside to "always be in visual contact with the landscape and feeling the impact of the landscape seen from above". Two ornithopther models, 48 and 75 feet long, were created for filming by London propmakers. The models were functional, with the doors and interior cockpit area being operable. They weighed over 11 tons and required an Antonov cargo plane to ship them to filming locations in Hungary and Jordan. One ornithopter, nicknamed "The Bucket", that was used in shooting had customizable pieces, which allowed for more space during filming. Cranes were also used to make the models fly, being used in a scene where Paul and Gurney watch a sandworm consume a spice harvester. He added that though it was difficult to use ornithopthers for filming, he felt it was "quite rewarding to see them in position in the desert".[80][81]

Many practical sets for the film were created on the soundstages and backlots of Origo Film Studios located in Budapest, Hungary, which served as interiors for the three planets. In the design for Caladan, Vermette sought to give the planet "a feeling of melancholia". He wanted the planet to feel closer to the autumn season in Canada, which was his home country, as he thought that it represented "the end of a cycle... or the beginning of a new one", and also noted its juxtaposition with the planet Arrakis. He also ultimately felt that the planet was defined by "dramatic coastal mountain ranges and cliffs", with forests that contained Norwegian pines.[77] Meanwhile, the interior sets of Caladan were inspired by medieval Japanese aesthetics, particularly the overall layout of Paul's training room, with its intricate screens and diffused lighting. Props within the set were created by set decorator Richard Roberts, including custom-made furniture, lighting, textiles made in Denmark, and other props designed to look antique.[80]

The original design for the sandworm was deemed "prehistoric", inspired by whales with a mouth filled with baleen and following the underwater movements of whales.[82] The skin texture of the sandworm was based on tree bark and mud flats. Vermette spoke of the challenges involved in creating the set designs used for the sandworms, stating "It was a creature that commanded respect, and it’s almost seen as a deity in the world of the Fremen. So that’s why the first time you see the depiction of the sand worm on the mural, it’s presented with sun coming out of its mouth".[83]

The design for Arrakeen was influenced by the book's description of Arrakis's climate, stating that "it’s the biggest residency ever built by humankind", and that it is also "a response as a colonial entity that took over the planet for the exploitation of a natural resource, the spice". He designed the city in a "rock bowl" shape to protect the infrastructure from the sandworms, and the buildings were built at an angle to protect it against the high windspeeds on the planet. He also made the building walls thick, as it results in a coolness inside. The team was inspired by World War II bunkers, Mayan temples, and Brazilian modernism. The history and culture of the Fremen was also indicated through various murals located throughout the residence, which he felt was "like in a church, the way you see a history in the stained glass, I thought maybe they had created murals telling the story of the colonizing of the planet — but those would probably have been created by Fremen artists."[23][79][83] One practical set was the environmental lab in which Sardaukar soldiers descend from the air. The circular dome was 20 feet high, with the spokes being created by a special kind of cloth fabric, which created the illusion of shadows and properly lit the actors, while agriculturally controlled sand was placed on the ground as filming took place during Budapest's raining season.[78]

Costumes Edit

Over 1000 looks for Arrakis, Caladan, and Giedi Prime were designed by the team for the film.[84] The costume design for the film was done by Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan. Villeneuve told West that he wanted the costumes to be "grounded" in history, and wanted them to avoid conventional futuristic views used in science fiction films, and put emphasis of giving a "philosophical" atmosphere to the film.[85][86] West performed "psychological studies of the characters and digging into the past for symbolic analogs to the various houses’ identities", which aided her in creating the costumes. Her design was inspired primarily by the Middle Ages, saying "I would go to the medieval world and imagine what it would look like in the future", and used the term "mod-eval" to describe her approach to designing the costumes. She found similarities between the Fremen and the French Resistance and called the Sardaukar the "Nazis of this universe", and took inspiration from various painters, including Giotto, Francisco Goya, and Caravaggio, and British art historian John Berger. She also took cues from the fashion of Balenciaga, and the Bedouin and Tuareg people.[85][84]

The Spacing Guild was based on the Avignon Papacy, as West had connected the Avignon Papacy's persecution of the Templars to that House Atreides, as she felt House Atreides "was betrayed by the Emperor and his people". She used reference pictures of medieval popes and modernized it when designing their costumes.[85] The Bene Gesserit sorceresses' costumes were based on tarot cards and chess pieces, while the Harkonnen's armors was designed to resemble a bug's shell, using books containing "medieval drawings of insects, spiders, ants, praying mantises and lizards" as reference.[87] The design for the Atreides's costumes was based around the Romanovs, as she felt "it was the end of an empire", and described their costumes as having a "simplicity about them that was regal".[88] Meanwhile, she based Lady Jessica's dresses in the first half of the film on fashion designer, Cristóbal Balenciaga, while the turmeric-toned gown she wears while landing on Arrakis, which was chain-linked by Bryony Tyrell, was influenced by Middle Eastern clothing and paintings of women in North Africa. She opened the chain link in the dress, which she said was "almost Bedouin in feeling. It gave her some power, but yet it kept her mysterious", and added that overall, she had to "embody all of those somewhat contradictory things in her costumes".[23][85]

West also used David Lean's films Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965), in addition to Fahrenheit 451 (1966), in order to further inspire the diversity of costumes included in the film. She additionally researched Roman and Greek mythology, feeling "there was a connection there with House Atreides and House Harkonnen", which she thought "seemed like a kind of a real Greek and Roman tragedy on one level". She dyed the gauze for the Fremen in the desert colors, which was inspired by the color of sand and rocks in the Jordanian filming locations, as she felt that it highlighted the movement and shapes of people's bodies.[84] A prototype for the stillsuit was designed by West and Jose Fernandez at Ironhead Studios in Los Angeles. Morgan then took Fernandez's prototype and set up a factory in Origo Studios in an airplane hangar, where additional suits were designed, over a period of two weeks. He hired artisans from across Europe, who created concept designs and over 150 individual pieces for the suits. Over 250 stillsuits were used when filming in Jordan. The suits were designed so that they could be flexible and fit the actor's body, while ensuring that they remained accurate to the novel throughout the process. They created "micro-sandwiches" consisting of acrylic fibers and porous cottons, which absorbed the moisture of the suits and allowed the actors to be cool inside the suits. Tubing also ran through the micro-sandwiches, for increased flexibility. Zippers and buttons were not used on costumes, as it was deemed to be "archaic".[85][84][87]

Filming Edit

Principal photography began on March 18, 2019, at Origo Film Studios in Budapest, Hungary, with Greig Fraser serving as cinematographer.[31][37][89] The film was shot for the IMAX format with an IMAX-certified Arri Alexa LF camera and an IMAX-certified Alexa Mini LF prototype, equipped with Panavision's large-format lenses in the Ultra Vista and H-series lineup, with select scenes seeing the aspect ratio opened up to 1.90:1 on all IMAX screens, and to 1.43:1 on select IMAX screens outfitted with IMAX's dual-laser projection system. The finished footage was transferred to 35mm film stock, then scanned back to 4K, in order to achieve a more film-like look.[90][91]

Parts of the Arrakeen invasion, such as the shots of Gurney, extras, and practical explosions, which were approximately five kilometers high, were filmed on backlots in Budapest.[92] The interiors of ornithopters were filmed on hilltops outside Budapest, with a 25-foot high and 360-degree sand colored ramp circling a large gimbal, which the team called the "dog collar". This allowed Fraser to film with the natural sunlight, which Villeneuve wanted.[93][94] Filming also took place in Wadi Rum, Jordan, which doubled for Arrakis.[37][95][96] The Liwa Oasis in the United Arab Emirates also served as a key backdrop for Arrakis. The film shot there for 11 days, with assistance being offered from local businesses and freelancers from Twofour54 and crews consisting of over 100 people.[97][98][99] Footage of helicopters flying over the UAE were also filmed, with six high-resolution cameras attached, which was used as reference for the ornithopters.[94][100] Scenes featuring rock formations Fremens used as shelters from the heat were filmed at the Rub' al Khali desert in Abu Dhabi.[101] Filming occurred in Stadlandet, Norway, doubling for the planet Caladan.[102] Filming wrapped on July 26, 2019.[103][104] Additional filming took place in Budapest by August 2020. It was not expected to alter the film's previous December 2020 release date.[105][106]

Visual effects Edit

 
"Sandscreens" were used to simulate the natural luminance of the desert intended for backgrounds.[107]

DNEG contributed to over 28 scenes in the film, and created 1,200 VFX shots out of the 1,700 total, with vendors including Wylie Co. and Rodeo FX.[108][109] Many shots used various chroma key process. Visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert used "sandscreens" for filming scenes in Arrakis and Arrakeen; instead of using green-based backgrounds, the visual effects team used sand-colored ones that matched the establishing desert shots intended for backgrounds. The sandscreens were used in capturing scenes of the ornithopter. The VFX team used the helicopter footage and later replaced them with the actual ornithopter models. This made the sand displacement, such as when it lands and takes off, easier to capture. Sand displacement via the ornithopters' movements were also filmed by encapsulating the ornithopter models in a black box with fans blowing dust around. The wings were also added in post using computer-generated imagery (CGI).[100][82][107] Similar processes were used to film scenes in Caladan, as "grayscreens," in addition to those with a "slight blue tint", were used for filming interior and exterior scenes, respectively. Bluescreens were used for Salusa Secundus scenes. He further went on to explain that different colored screens were used depending on the imagery of the foreground and background, which made compositing them together easier. The resulting shots also appeared more natural than with other chroma keys.[93][82][110] Approximately 18 tons of sand and dust were used on set, and the team created the effect of the sand blowing by attaching a V8 engine with a fan on the back of a tractor.[111]

The sandworms were created through CGI. The VFX team found a lot of difficulty in deciding how the sandworm would move. The team spent over a year in figuring out the movements of the sandworm, and researched the body movements of various animals, such as worms and snakes, in order to help them decide on the movement. The sand ripples created by the worms were inspired by Jaws (1975).[112] The special-effects supervisor, Gerd Nefzer, designed a vibrating 8x8 foot steel plate, and placed it under the sand, which resulted in the formation of various patterns, and was used to signify an approaching sandworm. The vibrating areas were also later enhanced to cover a larger area.[93][94] The team considered using rigged explosives to capture the motion of the sandworms breaking the surface in the desert, but as this was impractical to perform in the Middle East, they instead used Houdini software to have sand mimic the motion of water. Villeneuve did not want the sound associated with these special effects to sound as a studio production. Sound designers Mark Mangini and Theo Green used a "fake documentary realism" approach to capture natural sounds and manipulate them for use in the film, such as recording the sounds of shifting sands in Death Valley using hydrophones.[82]

The Montreal and Vancouver facilities of DNEG were used for the Arrakeen invasion sequence. It involved the combination of practical and digital effects. The VFX supervisor of the Montreal team, Brian Connor, created a digital Arrakeen space port, while the Vancouver team was tasked with simulating the explosions. Practical explosions filmed in the Budapest backlots were later enhanced by the VFX team, as the special effects team had a rig of practical lights shining through the fog from the practical explosions, which allowed the VFX team to then blend the practical and digital shots together more easily.[92] Lambert created the visual effects for the shields by combining past and future frames after experimenting with a clip from Seven Samurai (1954), which resulted in a "shimmering" look that Villeneuve approved. The team also added colors; they used blue for when an object bounces off and red for when it penetrates. The scene of Paul's future vision was filmed using motion-capture, and the team replicated the mo-cap to add hundreds of fighters to the scene. Animation supervisor Robyn Luckham helped create the scene as the team didn't know much about mo-cap. They also added explosions in the foreground, sandworms in the background, sand displacement throughout the scenes, and used more simulations to render the scene in real-time.[94] To create the desert mouse, Muad'Dib, the team created a practical stuffy model, which was very detailed, and filmed in Jordan for the appropriate desert lighting. The animation team also used footage of animals idling for reference, and animated the mouse so that it "only expends effort when absolutely necessary".[113] The creosote bush hologram in the film was created by projecting different "slices" of the light on Chalamet's face during plate photography based on his position on the set using a projector. Wylie then completed the scene in post by adding the hologram around him. For the hunter-seeker, the team used a stick on set as reference, and later replaced it with the CGI version in post. Practical rigs were attached to Skarsgård's body to create the illusion of the Baron's levitation. Sometimes, the levitation was done practically with an actual seesaw rig. His suspensor device attached to his back was done using CGI.[100][114]

The film was finished by being printed onto negative 35mm film stock and then transferred back to digital to give the image film grain and texture.[115]

Music Edit

Main article: Music of Dune (2021 film)
 
Hans Zimmer composed the film's score.

Hans Zimmer affirmed he would be scoring Dune near the start of the film's production in March 2019.[37] Zimmer had previously worked with Villeneuve on Blade Runner 2049. At the time, Zimmer had been approached by Christopher Nolan for composing on his then-upcoming film Tenet, but Zimmer opted for Dune, citing his personal love for the book as the reason.[116] Zimmer did not want the soundtrack to sound like his previous works and used instruments atypical of a Western orchestra, an approach he called "anti-groove".[117] He avoided watching Lynch's Dune so as not to be influenced by Toto's music, instead spending a week in a desert in Utah to incorporate its sounds into the score. The music was performed using an eclectic set of instruments, including some that were created specifically for the soundtrack. Performers for the score include guitarist Guthrie Govan and vocalist Loire Cotler. Additional music was composed by Steve Mazzaro and David Fleming, both of whom worked in collaboration with Zimmer to keep his pieces on theme.[117] Among the soundtrack pieces include bagpipes for the House Atreides theme. Zimmer said the idea of the House using bagpipes was Villeneuve's idea of something "ancient and organic". Zimmer was able to find thirty bagpipe players around Edinburgh amid the COVID-19 pandemic and recorded them playing in a church.[118]

For the first Dune trailer, Zimmer supervised a 32-person choir via FaceTime (necessitated by pandemic restrictions) for the recording of a cover of Pink Floyd's song "Eclipse". Choir members gathered in groups of four over eight separate sessions in Santa Monica at Zimmer's Remote Control studio while Zimmer conducted from home.[119]

Three soundtrack albums were released for the film by WaterTower Music, including The Dune Sketchbook (Music from the Soundtrack), Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), and The Art and Soul of Dune on September 3, September 17, and October 22, 2021, respectively. Villeneuve said Zimmer spent "months and months creating new instruments, defining, creating, and seeking new sounds, pushing the envelope" and praised his work on the film. Two singles were released on July 22, titled "Paul's Dream" and "Ripples in the Sand".[120] The film's score was nominated for the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 2022 Grammy Awards.[121]

Marketing Edit

Vanity Fair published a two-part extensive first-look report on Dune by April 14, 2020.[40] Empire's October 2020 issue's cover story included an in-depth look at the film and interviews with cast and crew, providing additional first looks ahead of the film's trailer release.[122] A teaser trailer was released on September 9, 2020, featuring a remix of the Pink Floyd song "Eclipse" (1973) combined with Zimmer's score.[123][124] Zack Sharf of IndieWire gave the trailer a positive review, and wrote "It's full of eye-popping set design", in addition to stating, "The two [Denis Villeneuve and Greig Fraser] have brought a tangibility to Frank Herbert's world that should make Dune a visceral experience for moviegoers."[125] Miles Surrey from The Ringer also gave the trailer a positive review, and felt the trailer "undoubtedly looks promising" and noted that though the source material has been "notoriously unadaptable", though he felt "the curse could be broken" due to the cast and Villeneuve's direction.[126] Similarly, Deadline Hollywood's Dino-Ray Ramos also praised the trailer for its scale, writing that it contained "sci-fi prestige and the epic scale that includes mind-boggling action, elegant cinematography and fantastical nuances that still leave room for grounded and very human storytelling".[124]

The first 10 minutes of the film were screened in select IMAX theaters worldwide on July 21 and 22, 2021, in an event that also included a behind-the-scenes look at the film and the debut of the film's theatrical trailer, on July 22.[127][128] Angela Wattercutter of Wired stated that the trailer "is begging you to see it in theaters".[129] Jennifer Yuma from Variety praised the cast and visuals, and praised its scope, calling the trailer "epic".[130] Similarly, Aaron Couch from The Hollywood Reporter also praised the cast and thought the film was an "ambitious sci-fi adaptation".[131] Anthony Breznican from Vanity Fair also gave the trailer a positive review and stated, "It will seem more mysterious to those unfamiliar with the story, but like Chani does herself in those dream missives to Paul, it hints at big, impressive things to come."[132] Vulture's Zoe Haylock was also impressed by the trailer, and advocated watching the film in theaters, praising the visuals as "transcendental natural settings".[133] Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Christian Holub felt the trailer "sets the stage cleanly".[134]

On February 26, 2019, Funcom entered into an exclusive partnership with Legendary Entertainment to develop games related to the upcoming Dune films.[135] In September 2020, McFarlane Toys started a line of 7-inch figures modeled after characters from the film.[136] A 12-inch figure of Baron Harkonnen was introduced at the same time.[136] The action figures were released in December 2020.[137] An artbook, The Art and Soul of Dune, was released alongside the film on October 22, 2021. The book was written by the executive producer Tanya Lapointe, and it included a soundtrack album of the same name composed by Zimmer. The book was available in both a standard and deluxe edition.[138]

Release Edit

Theatrical and streaming Edit

Dune was originally scheduled to be released on November 20, 2020, but was pushed back to December 18, 2020.[139][36][140] The film was then delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this time to October 1, 2021, taking over the release date slot of The Batman, where it was theatrically released in 3D.[141] In late June 2021, Warner Bros. delayed the film's American release date again by three weeks to October 22, 2021, to avoid competition with No Time to Die.[142] Over a month before the domestic North American release date, the film had a staggered theatrical release schedule in most international markets that do not have HBO Max, beginning on September 15, including France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.[143][144][145] A week ahead of the United States release, Warner Bros. announced that the film's availability on HBO Max would start on the evening of October 21, 2021, correlating with typical early Thursday theatrical showings for films released on Fridays (although the studio had not been doing early Thursday previews for most of the rest of their hybrid theatrical/HBO Max releases. The other exception being The Suicide Squad, which had the same strategy for its early Thursday previews/HBO Max release).[146]

Like all 2021 Warner Bros. films, Dune was streamed simultaneously on HBO Max for a period of one month.[147] The film was then removed from the service and followed the normal home media release schedule,[147][148] similar to the process Warner Bros. used for Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).[149] Villeneuve was one of several directors, alongside movie theater chains and production companies (including Legendary Entertainment, which produced and financed the film), who expressed disappointment and displeasure over the move.[150] In a column published in Variety, he wrote, "Streaming can produce great content, but not movies of Dune's scope and scale. Warner Bros.' decision means Dune won't have the chance to perform financially in order to be viable and piracy will ultimately triumph... My team and I devoted more than three years of our lives to make it a unique big screen experience. Our movie's image and sound were meticulously designed to be seen in theaters."[151]

Dune had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021.[152][153] It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival with an IMAX premiere screening at the Ontario Place Cinesphere on September 11, 2021.[154][155] Jason Momoa tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the film's London premiere on October 15, 2021.[156][157] On October 17, the film was leaked online ahead of its planned United States and HBO Max release.[158][159]

The film returned for a limited theatrical run at IMAX theaters starting on December 3, 2021.[160]

Home media Edit

The film was released digitally on December 3, 2021, while Blu-ray, DVD and Ultra HD Blu-ray versions of the film were released on January 11, 2022, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.[161] After its release on home media, Dune ranked first on the "NPD VideoScan First Alert" chart for combined Blu-ray and DVD sales as well as the dedicated Blu-ray sales chart.[162] According to The Numbers, it sold a combined 215,375 Blu-ray and DVD units in the first week for $3.6 million.[163] It retained the top position on both the charts of the NPD Group for the following two weeks before being displaced by Ghostbusters: Afterlife.[164][165] In addition, it was the most rented title from Redbox kiosks for three weeks as well.[166][167] It was the highest-selling movie for the month of January according to the "NPD VideoScan First Alert" chart.[168]

Reception Edit

Box office Edit

Dune grossed $108.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $293.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $402 million.[3][163] Deadline Hollywood reported that a total box office gross of $300 million, the combined cost of production and marketing, "will make many happy from an image-standpoint, even if breakeven is far north of that."[169]

In the U.S. and Canada, the film made $41 million in its opening weekend from 4,125 theaters,[170] surpassing its projected opening weekend estimates of $30–35 million and besting the debut of Godzilla vs. Kong ($31.6 million) for the highest opening weekend for Warner Bros. during the pandemic era.[169][171] Of that opening weekend take, $17.5 million came from its first day ticket sales, including $5.1 million from Thursday night previews. Dune also had the best opening of Villeneuve's career.[170] The film fell 62% in its second weekend to $15.5 million, though it remained atop the domestic box office.[172][173] In its third weekend it dropped by 51% to earn $7.6 million, and was displaced by Eternals from the top rank.[174] On November 25, 2021, Dune became the second Warner Bros. film of the pandemic era to cross $100 million in the US and Canada, following Godzilla vs. Kong.[175]

The film was released in 14 markets outside the US and Canada on September 15, 2021. It grossed $37.9 million, with the largest markets being Russia and CIS ($8.9 million),[176] France ($7.2 million), Germany ($4.4 million), Taiwan ($3.4 million), Italy ($2.5 million) and Spain ($2.4 million).[177] After adding an additional $26.3 million from 32 countries in its second weekend, the film had a 10-day running total of $76.5 million.[178]

In China, Dune opened to a $21.6 million weekend according to estimates by Warner Brothers, ranking second on the country's box office behind The Battle at Lake Changjin.[179] In its fourth week of release outside the US and Canada, the film made $21.4 million in 75 countries, a drop of 54% from the previous weekend.[180] It also fell by 78% to about $5 million in China, dropping to the third rank.[181][182] The film crossed the $300 million global mark on November 2.[183] During the fifth weekend it earned $11.1 million, a drop of 52%.[184] This included $2.1 million in China where it dropped to the fifth rank.[185]

After its return to IMAX for a week on December 2, the film earned an estimated $1.8 million during the weekend, a drop of 13% from the previous weekend, primarily due to earning around $1 million from IMAX. In Australia it debuted atop the box office chart, earning $3.4 million in the opening weekend.[186] The $400 million global mark was crossed on February 14, 2022, with the largest running-total countries outside the US and Canada being China ($39.5 million), France ($32.6 million), the UK ($30 million), Germany ($22.5 million) and Russia ($21.3 million).[187]

Streaming viewership Edit

According to Samba TV, the film was watched in over 1.9 million US households during its first three days of release,[188] which grew to 2.3 million within its first week of release.[189] 3.9 million US households had watched the film within its first 30 days of release.[190] According to TV Time, it was the most-watched film overall in the United States from the first to the third week of its release consecutively,[191] before dropping to the sixth rank in its fourth week.[192] The film rose to the third rank on TV Time's chart in the final week of its availability.[193][148] It was the ninth-most-streamed-film of 2021 according to the service.[194] By March 20, the film had been streamed in 5.3 million households in the US, including 996,000 since the Oscar nomination announcements on February 8.[195]

After its release on PVOD services, Dune debuted at the second position on iTunes and Vudu charts, while being ranked seventh on Google Play.[196] The following week it fell to the seventh position on iTunes and the third position on Vudu, while maintaining its ranking on Google Play.[197] After falling out of the charts for two weeks, it found renewed interest as it rose to the tenth position on iTunes, seventh position on Google Play, and the fifth position on Vudu.[198] It however fell out of the iTunes and Google Play charts again in the following week, while dropping to the tenth position on the Vudu chart.[199]

The film was the highest-selling title on Redbox's digital service for the week of January 24–30, 2022.[166] It was also the top-ranked film on iTunes during the same week.[200] Following the Academy Awards nominations, it reentered the top 10 charts for iTunes, Google Play and Vudu.[201]

Critical response Edit

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 507 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Dune occasionally struggles with its unwieldy source material, but those issues are largely overshadowed by the scope and ambition of this visually thrilling adaptation."[202] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 68 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[203] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an 84% positive score (with an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars) and 66% saying they would definitely recommend it.[170] Following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September 2021, early reception was generally positive, receiving praise for its ambition, story, scope, worldbuilding, performances (particularly that of Chalamet and Ferguson) and production values, though some critics considered the story to be incomplete and dull. Its writing and scope continued to be praised following its release, while others criticized the runtime, pacing, and adaptation of the source material.[204][205][206]

Ben Travis of Empire, Robbie Collin from The Daily Telegraph, and Xan Brooks at The Guardian rated the film five out of five stars.[207][208][209] Travis felt the writing and direction was strong, allowing it to properly establish the worldbuilding elements. He also lauded Fraser's cinematography and Zimmer's score, and labelled the film as being "blockbuster filmmaking in the Christopher Nolan mould", going on further to compare its narrative to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and praising Chalamet and Ferguson's performances, but also felt that "emotional strings" were not that impactful to him.[207] Brooks agreed with the sentiment that it was a high-quality blockbuster film and found "the missing link bridging the multiplex and the arthouse", and cited the worldbuilding, ensemble cast, and its set pieces as positive elements.[209] Collins also praised Chalamet and Ferguson's performances and the writing, feeling that the script handled exposition well. However, he primarily drew attention to the production design and the sandworms, calling the latter "threateningly alien, but also enticing, even addictive" and commented "the sets ring with the desolate grandeur of ancient ruins".[208]

In a positive yet more critical review, Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times felt the film's elements had used thematic elements from the novel well, and also lauded the production values albeit deeming the visual aesthetic to be monochromatic. Chang further went on to praise the plot for increasing the role of women in the story and tension regarding anticipation of action sequences, which he thought were directed well. However, he disliked the "abrupt, unsatisfying" ending and wanted Villeneuve's style to align with David Lynch's style, which he considered to contain "feverish, pustular imagery".[210] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly, who graded the film a B, wrote that Dune had little exposition and also appreciated the worldbuilding and visual aesthetic. However, she did not appreciate the jokes and felt the script gradually adjusted "and soon settles into a kind of grim grandeur", while highlighting Chalamet and Isaac's performances.[211] The New York Times's Manohla Dargis also admired the film's worldbuilding and production values, but felt that its exposition and pacing was appropriate as it had further establish the former. However, while she felt Villeneuve had attempted to be faithful to the source material, she also opined that Villeneuve was trying to satisfy the demands of the contemporary film industry. Her major issues were with the film's ending and what she deemed to be a "white man leading a fateful charge", although she refrained from labelling it a white-savior narrative.[212]

Critic Owen Gleiberman's review in Variety was more negative; he acknowledged that he appreciated the film's worldbuilding, but felt that its extensive focus on worldbuilding had undermined its storytelling. He found the title of "Dune Part I [sic]" to be "presumptuous", commenting that it was similar to how other film franchises advertised future installments. Gleiberman felt the film's spectacles, including the sandworms and ornithopter sequences, had caused him to be disengaged from the story, saying "as the movie begins to run out of tricks, it turns woozy and amorphous".[213] Reviewing the film for TheWrap, Steve Pond noted the film's darker tone had remained consistent, but cited the production design and scope as positive elements. Pond began to enjoy the film's action sequences on Arrakis and appreciated that Villeneuve "finds some dark poetry in the way he plays up the story’s mystical elements". Ultimately, he was mixed on the film's dark tone, commenting that it was a tonal deviation from his previous films but had also allowed it to be "giant mood piece that can be exhilarating in its dark beauty".[214]

Allegations of cultural appropriation and white savior narrative Edit

Some reviewers criticized the film for neglecting Arabian and Islamic elements which influenced the novel and appropriating them, while also noting the lack of casting of Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) actors. Screenwriter Jon Spaihts stated that they had to pull back on their use of Arabic culture embedded in the novel for the film; "The Arab world was much more exotic in the 1960s than it is today. Today the Arab world is with us, they're our fellow Americans, they're everywhere … If you were to build a kind of Arab future on Arrakis in a novel starting today, you would need to invent more and borrow less."[215] Despite the statement, critics were still displeased with the film. Serena Rasoul, the founder of Muslim American Casting, called the lack of MENA actors an "erasure" saying "You don't cast MENA or Muslim actors, yet you profit off their culture. That's where it's painful for us as creatives. ... It means that we are not good enough to be part of the film."."[216] The film was deemed to be more orientalist as a result.[217]

According to Ali Karjoo-Ravary, an assistant professor in Islamic studies of Bucknell University, while the original novel was considered by some to have elements of the white savior narrative, the lack of MENA representation in addition to the actors of African descent in roles of characters that were killed off to protect Paul and Jessica were seen to propagate this white savior narrative further within Villeneuve's film.[218][217] Commenting on the issue, Villeneuve stated what his intent with the film was: "It's a critique of that. It's not a celebration of a savior. It's a criticism of the idea of a savior, of someone that will come and tell another population how to be, what to believe. It's not a condemnation, but a criticism. So that's the way I feel it's relevant, and that can be seen as contemporary."[219]

Accolades Edit

Main article: List of accolades received by Dune (2021 film)

Dune was nominated for ten Academy Awards (winning six),[220] three Golden Globe Awards (winning one),[221] eleven British Academy Film Awards (winning five),[222] ten Critics' Choice Movie Awards (winning three),[223] two AACTA International Awards (winning one),[224] ten Satellite Awards (winning five),[225] one Grammy Award,[226] one Hollywood Music in Media Awards (won),[227] four People's Choice Awards,[228] one Screen Actors Guild Awards,[229] three Dorian Awards (winning one),[230] and one Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award (won),[231] among others. It was also ranked as one of the top ten films of 2021 by the American Film Institute.[232]

Future Edit

Dune: Part Two (2024) Edit

Main article: Dune: Part Two

Villeneuve intended to make a two-part adaptation of the novel, and by November 2019, Jon Spaihts left his position as showrunner on Dune: The Sisterhood to focus on writing the sequel film.[39][233] Villeneuve felt that Warner Bros.' decision in December 2020 to simultaneously release their 2021 films through HBO Max alongside a theatrical release due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema could compromise the film's financial performance, resulting in the cancellation of the sequel, though Warner Bros. assured him a sequel would be greenlit as long as the film performed well on HBO Max.[151]

In February 2021, Eric Roth stated that he has written a full treatment for the potential sequel,[234] with writing beginning that August.[235] Following the success of the film, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures officially greenlit Dune: Part Two in October 2021.[236][237][238] After the sequel was greenlit, Villeneuve's main concern was to finish the production, which would benefit from all the work on the first part.[236]

Preliminary filming started in Italy in early July 2022, with primary filming in Budapest to begin later that month.[239][240] The film is scheduled to be released on March 15, 2024.

Potential third film Edit

Villeneuve expressed interest in making a third film based on Dune Messiah, saying that its possibility depended on the success of Dune: Part Two.[241][242]

Dune: The Sisterhood Edit

Main article: Dune: The Sisterhood

In June 2019, Legendary Television announced it is producing a spin-off series, Dune: The Sisterhood, for WarnerMedia's streaming service, HBO Max. The series serves as a prequel to the film and centers on the Bene Gesserit. Initially, Villeneuve was going to direct the series' pilot, with Spaihts writing the screenplay and Dana Calvo as showrunner for the series.[243][244] In November 2019, Spaihts left the series as writer to focus on the sequel film.[233] Spaihts and Villeneuve remain as executive producers along with Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, and Kim Herbert.[245] In July 2021, Diane Ademu-John took over as showrunner.[246] Spaihts and Villeneuve confirmed in March 2022 that the show is still in development.[247] In April 2022, it was announced that Johan Renck will direct the first two episodes.[248] Travis Fimmel joined the cast in November 2022.[249]

In February 2023, it was announced that production was put on hiatus as Renck exited the project.[250]

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Dune titled onscreen as Dune Part One is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve who co wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth It is the first of a two part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert Set in the distant future the film follows Paul Atreides as his family the noble House Atreides is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis The ensemble cast includes Timothee Chalamet Rebecca Ferguson Oscar Isaac Josh Brolin Stellan Skarsgard Dave Bautista Stephen McKinley Henderson Zendaya Chang Chen Sharon Duncan Brewster Charlotte Rampling Jason Momoa Javier Bardem and David Dastmalchian DuneRelease posterDirected byDenis VilleneuveScreenplay byJon Spaihts Denis Villeneuve Eric RothBased onDuneby Frank HerbertProduced byMary Parent Denis Villeneuve Cale Boyter Joe Caracciolo Jr StarringTimothee Chalamet Rebecca Ferguson Oscar Isaac Josh Brolin Stellan Skarsgard Dave Bautista Stephen McKinley Henderson Zendaya Chang Chen Sharon Duncan Brewster Charlotte Rampling Jason Momoa Javier BardemCinematographyGreig FraserEdited byJoe WalkerMusic byHans ZimmerProductioncompanyLegendary PicturesDistributed byWarner Bros PicturesRelease datesSeptember 3 2021 2021 09 03 Venice October 22 2021 2021 10 22 United States Running time155 minutes 1 CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 165 million 2 Box office 402 million 3 The film is the third adaptation of Dune following David Lynch s 1984 film and John Harrison s 2000 television miniseries After an unsuccessful attempt by Paramount Pictures to produce a new adaptation Legendary Entertainment acquired the Dune film and television rights in 2016 with Villeneuve signing on as director in February 2017 Production contracts were only secured for the first film relying on its success before a sequel would be greenlit Principal photography took place from March to July 2019 at locations including Budapest Jordan Norway and Abu Dhabi Dune was originally scheduled for a late 2020 release but it was delayed due to the COVID 19 pandemic The film premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3 2021 ahead of its international release on September 15 it was then released in United States theaters and streaming on HBO Max on October 22 Dune was a box office success earning 402 million on a 165 million budget It was well received by critics and audiences with praise for Villeneuve s direction and screenplay the visual effects ambition costume design Hans Zimmer s musical score cinematography and faithfulness to the source material The film was nominated for ten awards at the 94th Academy Awards including Best Picture winning six and received numerous other accolades It has been widely considered one of the best science fiction films of the 21st century 4 5 A direct sequel Dune Part Two is set to be released on March 15 2024 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Background 3 2 Development 3 3 Writing 3 4 Casting 3 5 Design 3 5 1 Set and props 3 5 2 Costumes 3 6 Filming 3 7 Visual effects 4 Music 5 Marketing 6 Release 6 1 Theatrical and streaming 6 2 Home media 7 Reception 7 1 Box office 7 2 Streaming viewership 7 3 Critical response 7 3 1 Allegations of cultural appropriation and white savior narrative 7 4 Accolades 8 Future 8 1 Dune Part Two 2024 8 2 Potential third film 8 3 Dune The Sisterhood 9 References 10 External linksPlot EditIn the distant future Duke Leto Atreides ruler of the planet Caladan is assigned by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV to replace Baron Vladimir Harkonnen as the fiefholder of Arrakis a harsh desert planet and sole source of spice a valuable psychotropic substance that imparts heightened vitality and awareness Spice is key to interstellar travel giving Spacing Guild Navigators the ability to guide starships to traverse space instantaneously and safely Shaddam plots for House Harkonnen to retake Arrakis secretly aided by his Sardaukar troops to destroy House Atreides Leto is suspicious of the Emperor but weighs the risks against the power of controlling Arrakis and making an alliance with its mysterious natives the Fremen Leto s concubine Lady Jessica is an acolyte of the Bene Gesserit an exclusive sisterhood whose members possess advanced physical and mental abilities As part of their centuries long breeding program they instructed her to bear a daughter whose son would become the Kwisatz Haderach a Bene Gesserit and messianic superbeing with the clairvoyance necessary to guide humanity to a better future However she disobeyed and bore a son Paul Throughout his life he is trained by Leto s aides Duncan Idaho Gurney Halleck Suk doctor Wellington Yueh and the Mentat Thufir Hawat while Jessica teaches him Bene Gesserit disciplines Paul confides in Jessica and Duncan that he is troubled by visions of the future In response to Paul s increasing prescience the Reverend Mother and Imperial Truthsayer Gaius Helen Mohiam visits Caladan and subjects him to a death alternative test to assess his humanity and impulse control which he passes Mohiam insists that Baron Harkonnen spare Paul and Jessica during his coup to which he duplicitously agrees House Atreides arrives at Arrakeen the fortress stronghold on Arrakis Duncan s advance party has made contact with the Fremen The natives revere Paul and Jessica which Jessica explains is due to the Bene Gesserit sowing beliefs on Arrakis centuries earlier Leto negotiates with Fremen chieftain Stilgar and meets the Imperial Judge of the Change Dr Kynes a planetologist who lives among the Fremen Kynes briefs them on the dangers of spice harvesting and the giant sandworms which travel under the desert and make the use of protective Holtzman shields unwise During a flight they dramatically rescue a stranded spice harvesting crew from a sandworm Paul s exposure to the spice triggers intense premonitions An attempt to assassinate Paul with a hunter seeker fails Yueh betrays the Atreides and disables Arrakeen s shields allowing the Harkonnens and Sardaukar to invade He incapacitates Leto planning to exchange him for his wife who is the Baron s prisoner Yueh replaces one of Leto s teeth with a poison gas capsule with which the Duke can assassinate the Baron Leto releases the gas killing himself and the Baron s Mentat Piter De Vries but the Baron survives Though the Baron has arranged to have Paul and Jessica dropped deep in the desert to die a compassionate Yueh has left them with stillsuits and other survival supplies Jessica uses a Bene Gesserit technique called the Voice to overpower and kill their captors Paul and Jessica journey overnight in the desert where Paul surrounded by spice has visions of a bloody holy war fought across the universe in his name Baron Harkonnen gives command of Arrakis to his nephew Rabban and orders him to restart spice production to recoup the cost of the invasion Paul and Jessica are found by Duncan and Kynes and Paul discloses his plan to marry one of Shaddam s daughters to avert the civil war that would ensue from news of the Emperor s treachery They are found by the Sardaukar and Duncan sacrifices himself to allow Paul and Jessica to escape Kynes is mortally wounded by Sardaukar but summons a sandworm that devours them In the deep desert Paul and Jessica encounter Stilgar s tribe including Chani the girl in Paul s visions Fremen warrior Jamis opposes Stilgar s lenience to them and challenges Paul to a ritual duel to the death which Paul wins Against Jessica s wishes Paul joins the Fremen to fulfill his father s goal of bringing peace to Arrakis Cast EditTimothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides ducal heir of House Atreides 6 Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Paul s Bene Gesserit mother and consort to Leto 6 Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides Paul s father and the leader of House Atreides 6 Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck weapons master of House Atreides and one of Paul s mentors 6 Stellan Skarsgard as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen leader of House Harkonnen enemy to House Atreides and former steward of Arrakis 6 Dave Bautista as Glossu Rabban nephew of Baron Harkonnen 6 Sharon Duncan Brewster as Dr Liet Kynes Imperial ecologist and Judge of the Change on Arrakis 6 Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat the Mentat of House Atreides 6 Zendaya as Chani a mysterious young Fremen woman who appears in Paul s visions 6 Chang Chen as Dr Wellington Yueh a Suk doctor in the employ of House Atreides 6 Charlotte Rampling as Reverend Mother Mohiam the Emperor s Bene Gesserit Truthsayer 6 Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho the swordmaster of House Atreides and one of Paul s mentors 6 Javier Bardem as Stilgar the leader of the Fremen tribe at Sietch Tabr 6 David Dastmalchian as Piter De Vries the Mentat of House Harkonnen 6 Babs Olusanmokun as Jamis a Fremen from Sietch Tabr Golda Rosheuvel as Shadout Mapes a Fremen working as a housekeeper for House Atreides Roger Yuan as Lieutenant Lanville Gurney Halleck s second in commandIn addition members of the supporting cast include Benjamin Clementine as the Herald of the Change the head of an Imperial delegation to Caladan Joelle and Dora Kapolnai Schvab as Baron Harkonnen s servant Marianne Faithfull Jean Gilpin and Ellen Dubin voice the ancestral Bene Gesserit whose voices are heard by Paul in his visions 6 Joe Walker the film s editor provides the narration for Paul s filmbooks 7 Production EditBackground Edit See also Dune novel Adaptations and Dune franchise Shortly after publication in 1965 Dune was identified for potential film prospects and the rights to adapt the novel to film have been held by several producers since 1971 Attempts to make a film were made and it was considered to be unfilmable owing to its breadth of content 8 9 10 Due to the book s status among fans deviations from the original material without strong justification have the potential to harm the film s reputation 11 Alejandro Jodorowsky acquired the rights in the 1970s to make a fourteen hour adaptation of the book but the project fell through This effort became the subject of the documentary film Jodorowsky s Dune 2013 12 David Lynch s Dune produced by Raffaella De Laurentiis in 1984 was intended as a three hour film but was cut to 137 minutes it was poorly received and Lynch himself ended up disowning it 11 13 14 15 In 1996 the producer Richard P Rubinstein acquired the rights to the novel A live action miniseries produced by Rubinstein and directed by John Harrison Frank Herbert s Dune aired on the Sci Fi Channel in 2000 it was a ratings hit and was generally better received than Lynch s film Some reviewers criticized the miniseries for lacking the spectacle afforded to a feature film production and for staying too faithful to the book and being dragged down by exposition 16 17 Prospects to make a successful adaptation of Dune improved after the critical and commercial success of the film series adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter both of which maintained most of the works key characters and plots while managing the limited running time 11 In 2008 Paramount Pictures brought on Peter Berg to direct an adaptation 18 Berg left the project in October 2009 19 with director Pierre Morel brought on to direct in January 2010 20 Paramount dropped the project in March 2011 as they could not come to key agreements with their rights reverting to Rubinstein 21 22 Development Edit Denis Villeneuve said that adapting Dune was a lifelong ambition He was hired to direct in February 2017 In 2011 Mary Parent vice chair of worldwide production for Legendary Entertainment and Cale Boyter her producer partner managed to acquire adaptation rights for Dune 23 Eventually Legendary acquired the film and TV rights for Dune in November 2016 24 25 Variety reported in December 2016 that Denis Villeneuve was in talks with the studio to direct the film 26 Villeneuve had expressed his interest in the project in September 2016 saying that a longstanding dream of mine is to adapt Dune but it s a long process to get the rights and I don t think I will succeed 27 Villeneuve s enthusiasm to direct a Dune film earned Parent s respect who called Villeneuve and quickly hired him after Villeneuve described his vision for the film to her He chose to complete his other films such as Arrival 2016 and Blade Runner 2049 2017 as he wanted to spend more time to develop the film and co write it himself He also felt Dune is my world due to his background in directing science fiction films 23 28 Villeneuve had signed on to direct the film by January 2017 approximately a week after earning a nomination Academy Award for Best Director for Arrival 29 By that February Villeneuve was officially confirmed to be directing the film 30 Some of Villeneuve s previous collaborators on Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 returned for Dune including film editor Joe Walker 31 production designer Patrice Vermette visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert sound designer and editor Theo Green sound editor Mark Mangini 32 and special effects supervisor Gerd Nefzer 33 Other previous collaborators were slated to work on Dune but dropped out before production began including visual effects supervisor John Nelson 34 and cinematographer Roger Deakins who was replaced in December 2018 with Greig Fraser 35 Dune was produced by Villeneuve Parent and Cale Boyter with Tanya Lapointe Brian Herbert Byron Merritt Kim Herbert Thomas Tull Jon Spaihts Richard P Rubinstein John Harrison and Herbert W Gain serving as executive producers and Kevin J Anderson as creative consultant 36 37 Game of Thrones language creator David J Peterson was confirmed to be developing languages for the film in April 2019 38 Writing Edit In March 2018 Villeneuve stated that his goal was to adapt the novel into a two part film series 39 He secured a two movie deal with Warner Bros Pictures in the same style as the two part adaptation of Stephen King s It in 2017 and in 2019 He chose to make two films as he felt that the novel was too large and complex for one 40 Subsequent dealings secured the production of the first film and new production deals were made to start production for the second 41 Eric Roth was hired to co write the screenplay in April 42 and Jon Spaihts was later confirmed to be co writing the script alongside Roth and Villeneuve 43 By May 2018 Villeneuve finished a first draft of the script 44 45 Brian Herbert also reiterated that the latest draft covered the first half of Dune by July 2018 46 Legendary CEO Joshua Grode confirmed in April 2019 that they plan to make a sequel adding that there s a logical place to stop the first movie before the book is over 47 Villeneuve had seen Lynch s adaptation of Dune and respected both Lynch and the film but chose not to build on any elements from it saying I m going back to the book and going to the images that came out when I read it 48 He elaborated on this adding that there are parts that I love and other elements that I am less comfortable with So it s like I remember being half satisfied and felt he had to make the film with a different sensibility 49 Furthermore he also chose not to incorporate concepts that Jodorowsky had laid out for his attempt for a Dune film in the mid 1970s as he felt it would be very presumptuous and arrogant for me to try 50 51 He later explained that previous adaptations of the novel did not fully intimidate him as he felt that his love for Dune allowed him to focus on his own vision He compared his experience of making the film to archaeology describing the process as going back in time and finding those images mixed with emotions and bringing them back to life and trying to honor them as much as possible 23 In adapting the book for a contemporary audience Villeneuve wanted to reflect on realities that have happened since that time related to contemporary over exploitation of the Earth and he considered his screenplay a coming of age story but also a call for action for the youth 40 He sought to streamline many parts of the novel for the film and also wanted to keep the atmosphere and poetry of the book intact 52 This included eliminating internal monologues and epigraphs used in the book and simplifying the pseudo antiquated dialogue 23 Instead he focused the story around Paul and Jessica giving them a secret hand gesture language they could use to communicate silently to each other The film also minimizes many of the aspects around the Emperor and the politics surrounding the Imperium as he believed he could keep the scope of the novel and its exploration of how power is used while still keeping the focus on Paul s coming of age story 52 Some characters were given less prominence such as Baron Harkonnen members of his court and the Mentats Thufir Hawat and Piter De Vries but established enough so that they can be used in the future 52 He also wanted to move the Baron from being a caricature as he was presented in the novel to a more complex antagonist 40 Another major change was altering some of the arcs of the female characters in the book to give them more respect and prominence as Villeneuve felt femininity was a crucial theme in the book 52 According to Rebecca Ferguson Denis was very respectful of Frank s work in the book but the quality of the arcs for many of the women have been brought up to a new level There were some shifts he did and they are beautifully portrayed now 40 Lady Jessica was given an expanded role as a soldier and member of the Bene Gesserit As such the studio labeled this role a warrior priestess in contrast to the joking label of space nun that Villeneuve felt was implied by the book 40 Casting Edit Top row Timothee Chalamet left Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac respectively play the roles of Paul Atreides Lady Jessica and Leto Atreides Bottom row Zendaya left Javier Bardem and Stellan Skarsgard respectively play the roles of Chani Stilgar and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen Villeneuve had begun the casting process by first determining who would portray Paul Atreides and progress from there He had also sought to approach actors on an individual basis and felt the final cast was close to his dream list 53 For the role Villeneuve had desired an actor who had an old soul in the body of a teenager and had felt Timothee Chalamet had been a perfect choice for the role later admitting that he had been his primary choice for the role and had no substitute in mind 54 55 Chalamet had also desired to collaborate with Villeneuve and be in the film and as such had travelled to the Cannes Film Festival to meet him personally about the role 29 56 By July 2018 Chalamet had entered final negotiations to play Paul 57 Rebecca Ferguson entered negotiations to play Atreides mother Lady Jessica in September 2018 with Chalamet having been confirmed for the role by then 43 Ferguson was initially dismissive of the role as she had felt Lady Jessica had been too similar to her previous Mission Impossible role Ilsa Faust and also desired to not be typecast as strong female characters 58 However she had begun to enjoy the role after Villeneuve had described his vision of the role to her and reading the novel saying when I gradually understood the intricate balance of these women that the ancestral connection that they have the simplicity of wanting to save something you have created and all of these shades I completely fell in love with it 59 Ferguson had been cast by January 2019 60 Casting director Francine Maisler had compiled over 30 50 audition tapes from actors for Villeneuve to decide from when casting secondary roles 61 Dave Bautista was offered the role of Glossu Rabban following a phone call from Villeneuve He had been an avid fan of Villeneuve and wanted to contact him but was surprised when Villeneuve contacted him first He was very proud of being offered the role and accepted it saying Moments like that really gauge how far I ve come as an actor 62 Villeneuve desired for Stellan Skarsgard to portray Baron Vladimir Harkonnen as he had found Skarsgard intimidating and personally contacted Charlotte Rampling in order to portray Gaius Helen Mohiam and she had accepted as she had admired Villeneuve s work She was previously eyed to portray Lady Jessica in Jodorowsky s planned adaptation 63 Once Oscar Isaac had heard the film was in development he contacted Villeneuve and told him he had been interested in starring in the film Later on Villeneuve decided to cast him as Duke Leto with Isaac commenting the role had suited him physically Zendaya had auditioned for the role of Chani alongside five other actresses prior to Euphoria She was chosen as she was deemed to have the best chemistry with Chalamet 61 She had also been intent on getting the role after previously auditioning for Villeneuve s Prisoners 2013 29 Bautista 64 Skarsgard 65 Rampling 66 Isaac 67 and Zendaya all joined the cast in January 2019 68 Javier Bardem 69 Josh Brolin 70 Jason Momoa 71 and David Dastmalchian were cast as Stilgar Gurney Halleck Duncan Idaho and Piter de Vries the next month 72 Villeneuve had directly called Bardem and had offered him the role who was shocked Bardem had wanted to portray Stilgar comparing it to his personal love for Aragon in The Lord of the Rings Meanwhile Brolin had amusingly commented that he pretended to read the script prior to accepting the role while Momoa said he received his casting call while snowboarding down a mountain then went to contact Villeneuve on a Skype call to confirm his involvement 56 Dastmalchian s casting was similar to that of Brolin and Momoa s as he had received a call while he was in his house in Los Angeles and accepted the role without reading the script due to his confidence in Villeneuve 73 Stephen McKinley Henderson joined in March 37 with Chang Chen entering negotiations 37 74 Maisler s decided to cast Henderson after admiring his work in New York theaters and curated a list of the most talented Chinese actors in the world for the role of Dr Yueh The studio contacted Chen s manager in China following difficulties in contacting him Afterwards Chen accepted his role as Dr Yueh in the film The decision to cast Benjamin Clementine as the Herald of the Change had occurred after Maisler enjoyed his performance in the Tiny Desk Concerts 61 In July 2019 it was reported that the film would gender swap the character Liet Kynes by casting Sharon Duncan Brewster for the role 75 Duncan Brewster had auditioned for the role in London through Jina Jay a casting director who was working with Maisler at the time saying that she exudes an intelligence and a power and an inner strength Later Maisler then presented a shortlist for the potential cast members and Villeneuve had picked Duncan Brewster 61 Her casting was confirmed in April 2020 40 The idea to change Kynes s gender was suggested by Jon Spaihts which Villeneuve promptly accepted 52 According to Duncan Brewster Villeneuve felt it was necessary to capture the essence of the character from the book but was not necessary to remain consistent with all other facets and thus opted for this change 41 Design Edit Set and props Edit The set design for the film was done by production designer Patrice Vermette 76 Vermette stated that the set design for Dune would be guided by the need to ground the story into realistic settings to help the audience believe in the extraordinary elements They sought to make the sets as realistic and immersive as possible and used minimal set extension and no greenscreens 23 77 Prior to the creation of any sets or any visual effects for the film Villeneuve and a team of select people including his storyboard artist and later concept artist Deak Ferrand worked together to define the visual language for the film while Vermette created a visual bible to guide the development of the set design and to keep it consistent with the visual effects design used throughout the film and eventually later came on board to extrapolate the world He also re read the novel as he felt that the book gives a lot of clues or cues that will help you navigate it to design things but it s quite nonspecific adding that he wanted to support Villeneuve s original vision of the novel when he read it as a young teenager and base the design around Herbert s original novel The team s early mood boards for the visual language of the film consisted of a variety of images including ziggurat architecture from Mesopotamia Egyptian references bunkers from World War II brutalist architecture from Brazil and the Soviet Union megastructures conceived by Superstudio marble mines power dams and imagery of glaciers taking over mountains 23 77 78 79 The design for the ornithopthers was conceived by Villeneuve and storyboard artist Sam Hudecki Villeneuve wanted the ornithopther to resemble a dragonfly and helicopter describing it as muscular but also wanting it to be realistic adding that he wanted the vehicles to obey the laws of nature gravity and physics He noted that he thought the overall world of Dune was retro futuristic and analog He wanted his team to design the cockpits in a way so that it allowed the actors inside to always be in visual contact with the landscape and feeling the impact of the landscape seen from above Two ornithopther models 48 and 75 feet long were created for filming by London propmakers The models were functional with the doors and interior cockpit area being operable They weighed over 11 tons and required an Antonov cargo plane to ship them to filming locations in Hungary and Jordan One ornithopter nicknamed The Bucket that was used in shooting had customizable pieces which allowed for more space during filming Cranes were also used to make the models fly being used in a scene where Paul and Gurney watch a sandworm consume a spice harvester He added that though it was difficult to use ornithopthers for filming he felt it was quite rewarding to see them in position in the desert 80 81 Many practical sets for the film were created on the soundstages and backlots of Origo Film Studios located in Budapest Hungary which served as interiors for the three planets In the design for Caladan Vermette sought to give the planet a feeling of melancholia He wanted the planet to feel closer to the autumn season in Canada which was his home country as he thought that it represented the end of a cycle or the beginning of a new one and also noted its juxtaposition with the planet Arrakis He also ultimately felt that the planet was defined by dramatic coastal mountain ranges and cliffs with forests that contained Norwegian pines 77 Meanwhile the interior sets of Caladan were inspired by medieval Japanese aesthetics particularly the overall layout of Paul s training room with its intricate screens and diffused lighting Props within the set were created by set decorator Richard Roberts including custom made furniture lighting textiles made in Denmark and other props designed to look antique 80 The original design for the sandworm was deemed prehistoric inspired by whales with a mouth filled with baleen and following the underwater movements of whales 82 The skin texture of the sandworm was based on tree bark and mud flats Vermette spoke of the challenges involved in creating the set designs used for the sandworms stating It was a creature that commanded respect and it s almost seen as a deity in the world of the Fremen So that s why the first time you see the depiction of the sand worm on the mural it s presented with sun coming out of its mouth 83 The design for Arrakeen was influenced by the book s description of Arrakis s climate stating that it s the biggest residency ever built by humankind and that it is also a response as a colonial entity that took over the planet for the exploitation of a natural resource the spice He designed the city in a rock bowl shape to protect the infrastructure from the sandworms and the buildings were built at an angle to protect it against the high windspeeds on the planet He also made the building walls thick as it results in a coolness inside The team was inspired by World War II bunkers Mayan temples and Brazilian modernism The history and culture of the Fremen was also indicated through various murals located throughout the residence which he felt was like in a church the way you see a history in the stained glass I thought maybe they had created murals telling the story of the colonizing of the planet but those would probably have been created by Fremen artists 23 79 83 One practical set was the environmental lab in which Sardaukar soldiers descend from the air The circular dome was 20 feet high with the spokes being created by a special kind of cloth fabric which created the illusion of shadows and properly lit the actors while agriculturally controlled sand was placed on the ground as filming took place during Budapest s raining season 78 Costumes Edit Over 1000 looks for Arrakis Caladan and Giedi Prime were designed by the team for the film 84 The costume design for the film was done by Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan Villeneuve told West that he wanted the costumes to be grounded in history and wanted them to avoid conventional futuristic views used in science fiction films and put emphasis of giving a philosophical atmosphere to the film 85 86 West performed psychological studies of the characters and digging into the past for symbolic analogs to the various houses identities which aided her in creating the costumes Her design was inspired primarily by the Middle Ages saying I would go to the medieval world and imagine what it would look like in the future and used the term mod eval to describe her approach to designing the costumes She found similarities between the Fremen and the French Resistance and called the Sardaukar the Nazis of this universe and took inspiration from various painters including Giotto Francisco Goya and Caravaggio and British art historian John Berger She also took cues from the fashion of Balenciaga and the Bedouin and Tuareg people 85 84 The Spacing Guild was based on the Avignon Papacy as West had connected the Avignon Papacy s persecution of the Templars to that House Atreides as she felt House Atreides was betrayed by the Emperor and his people She used reference pictures of medieval popes and modernized it when designing their costumes 85 The Bene Gesserit sorceresses costumes were based on tarot cards and chess pieces while the Harkonnen s armors was designed to resemble a bug s shell using books containing medieval drawings of insects spiders ants praying mantises and lizards as reference 87 The design for the Atreides s costumes was based around the Romanovs as she felt it was the end of an empire and described their costumes as having a simplicity about them that was regal 88 Meanwhile she based Lady Jessica s dresses in the first half of the film on fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga while the turmeric toned gown she wears while landing on Arrakis which was chain linked by Bryony Tyrell was influenced by Middle Eastern clothing and paintings of women in North Africa She opened the chain link in the dress which she said was almost Bedouin in feeling It gave her some power but yet it kept her mysterious and added that overall she had to embody all of those somewhat contradictory things in her costumes 23 85 West also used David Lean s films Lawrence of Arabia 1962 and Doctor Zhivago 1965 in addition to Fahrenheit 451 1966 in order to further inspire the diversity of costumes included in the film She additionally researched Roman and Greek mythology feeling there was a connection there with House Atreides and House Harkonnen which she thought seemed like a kind of a real Greek and Roman tragedy on one level She dyed the gauze for the Fremen in the desert colors which was inspired by the color of sand and rocks in the Jordanian filming locations as she felt that it highlighted the movement and shapes of people s bodies 84 A prototype for the stillsuit was designed by West and Jose Fernandez at Ironhead Studios in Los Angeles Morgan then took Fernandez s prototype and set up a factory in Origo Studios in an airplane hangar where additional suits were designed over a period of two weeks He hired artisans from across Europe who created concept designs and over 150 individual pieces for the suits Over 250 stillsuits were used when filming in Jordan The suits were designed so that they could be flexible and fit the actor s body while ensuring that they remained accurate to the novel throughout the process They created micro sandwiches consisting of acrylic fibers and porous cottons which absorbed the moisture of the suits and allowed the actors to be cool inside the suits Tubing also ran through the micro sandwiches for increased flexibility Zippers and buttons were not used on costumes as it was deemed to be archaic 85 84 87 Filming Edit Principal photography began on March 18 2019 at Origo Film Studios in Budapest Hungary with Greig Fraser serving as cinematographer 31 37 89 The film was shot for the IMAX format with an IMAX certified Arri Alexa LF camera and an IMAX certified Alexa Mini LF prototype equipped with Panavision s large format lenses in the Ultra Vista and H series lineup with select scenes seeing the aspect ratio opened up to 1 90 1 on all IMAX screens and to 1 43 1 on select IMAX screens outfitted with IMAX s dual laser projection system The finished footage was transferred to 35mm film stock then scanned back to 4K in order to achieve a more film like look 90 91 Parts of the Arrakeen invasion such as the shots of Gurney extras and practical explosions which were approximately five kilometers high were filmed on backlots in Budapest 92 The interiors of ornithopters were filmed on hilltops outside Budapest with a 25 foot high and 360 degree sand colored ramp circling a large gimbal which the team called the dog collar This allowed Fraser to film with the natural sunlight which Villeneuve wanted 93 94 Filming also took place in Wadi Rum Jordan which doubled for Arrakis 37 95 96 The Liwa Oasis in the United Arab Emirates also served as a key backdrop for Arrakis The film shot there for 11 days with assistance being offered from local businesses and freelancers from Twofour54 and crews consisting of over 100 people 97 98 99 Footage of helicopters flying over the UAE were also filmed with six high resolution cameras attached which was used as reference for the ornithopters 94 100 Scenes featuring rock formations Fremens used as shelters from the heat were filmed at the Rub al Khali desert in Abu Dhabi 101 Filming occurred in Stadlandet Norway doubling for the planet Caladan 102 Filming wrapped on July 26 2019 103 104 Additional filming took place in Budapest by August 2020 It was not expected to alter the film s previous December 2020 release date 105 106 Visual effects Edit Sandscreens were used to simulate the natural luminance of the desert intended for backgrounds 107 DNEG contributed to over 28 scenes in the film and created 1 200 VFX shots out of the 1 700 total with vendors including Wylie Co and Rodeo FX 108 109 Many shots used various chroma key process Visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert used sandscreens for filming scenes in Arrakis and Arrakeen instead of using green based backgrounds the visual effects team used sand colored ones that matched the establishing desert shots intended for backgrounds The sandscreens were used in capturing scenes of the ornithopter The VFX team used the helicopter footage and later replaced them with the actual ornithopter models This made the sand displacement such as when it lands and takes off easier to capture Sand displacement via the ornithopters movements were also filmed by encapsulating the ornithopter models in a black box with fans blowing dust around The wings were also added in post using computer generated imagery CGI 100 82 107 Similar processes were used to film scenes in Caladan as grayscreens in addition to those with a slight blue tint were used for filming interior and exterior scenes respectively Bluescreens were used for Salusa Secundus scenes He further went on to explain that different colored screens were used depending on the imagery of the foreground and background which made compositing them together easier The resulting shots also appeared more natural than with other chroma keys 93 82 110 Approximately 18 tons of sand and dust were used on set and the team created the effect of the sand blowing by attaching a V8 engine with a fan on the back of a tractor 111 The sandworms were created through CGI The VFX team found a lot of difficulty in deciding how the sandworm would move The team spent over a year in figuring out the movements of the sandworm and researched the body movements of various animals such as worms and snakes in order to help them decide on the movement The sand ripples created by the worms were inspired by Jaws 1975 112 The special effects supervisor Gerd Nefzer designed a vibrating 8x8 foot steel plate and placed it under the sand which resulted in the formation of various patterns and was used to signify an approaching sandworm The vibrating areas were also later enhanced to cover a larger area 93 94 The team considered using rigged explosives to capture the motion of the sandworms breaking the surface in the desert but as this was impractical to perform in the Middle East they instead used Houdini software to have sand mimic the motion of water Villeneuve did not want the sound associated with these special effects to sound as a studio production Sound designers Mark Mangini and Theo Green used a fake documentary realism approach to capture natural sounds and manipulate them for use in the film such as recording the sounds of shifting sands in Death Valley using hydrophones 82 The Montreal and Vancouver facilities of DNEG were used for the Arrakeen invasion sequence It involved the combination of practical and digital effects The VFX supervisor of the Montreal team Brian Connor created a digital Arrakeen space port while the Vancouver team was tasked with simulating the explosions Practical explosions filmed in the Budapest backlots were later enhanced by the VFX team as the special effects team had a rig of practical lights shining through the fog from the practical explosions which allowed the VFX team to then blend the practical and digital shots together more easily 92 Lambert created the visual effects for the shields by combining past and future frames after experimenting with a clip from Seven Samurai 1954 which resulted in a shimmering look that Villeneuve approved The team also added colors they used blue for when an object bounces off and red for when it penetrates The scene of Paul s future vision was filmed using motion capture and the team replicated the mo cap to add hundreds of fighters to the scene Animation supervisor Robyn Luckham helped create the scene as the team didn t know much about mo cap They also added explosions in the foreground sandworms in the background sand displacement throughout the scenes and used more simulations to render the scene in real time 94 To create the desert mouse Muad Dib the team created a practical stuffy model which was very detailed and filmed in Jordan for the appropriate desert lighting The animation team also used footage of animals idling for reference and animated the mouse so that it only expends effort when absolutely necessary 113 The creosote bush hologram in the film was created by projecting different slices of the light on Chalamet s face during plate photography based on his position on the set using a projector Wylie then completed the scene in post by adding the hologram around him For the hunter seeker the team used a stick on set as reference and later replaced it with the CGI version in post Practical rigs were attached to Skarsgard s body to create the illusion of the Baron s levitation Sometimes the levitation was done practically with an actual seesaw rig His suspensor device attached to his back was done using CGI 100 114 The film was finished by being printed onto negative 35mm film stock and then transferred back to digital to give the image film grain and texture 115 Music EditMain article Music of Dune 2021 film Hans Zimmer composed the film s score Hans Zimmer affirmed he would be scoring Dune near the start of the film s production in March 2019 37 Zimmer had previously worked with Villeneuve on Blade Runner 2049 At the time Zimmer had been approached by Christopher Nolan for composing on his then upcoming film Tenet but Zimmer opted for Dune citing his personal love for the book as the reason 116 Zimmer did not want the soundtrack to sound like his previous works and used instruments atypical of a Western orchestra an approach he called anti groove 117 He avoided watching Lynch s Dune so as not to be influenced by Toto s music instead spending a week in a desert in Utah to incorporate its sounds into the score The music was performed using an eclectic set of instruments including some that were created specifically for the soundtrack Performers for the score include guitarist Guthrie Govan and vocalist Loire Cotler Additional music was composed by Steve Mazzaro and David Fleming both of whom worked in collaboration with Zimmer to keep his pieces on theme 117 Among the soundtrack pieces include bagpipes for the House Atreides theme Zimmer said the idea of the House using bagpipes was Villeneuve s idea of something ancient and organic Zimmer was able to find thirty bagpipe players around Edinburgh amid the COVID 19 pandemic and recorded them playing in a church 118 For the first Dune trailer Zimmer supervised a 32 person choir via FaceTime necessitated by pandemic restrictions for the recording of a cover of Pink Floyd s song Eclipse Choir members gathered in groups of four over eight separate sessions in Santa Monica at Zimmer s Remote Control studio while Zimmer conducted from home 119 Three soundtrack albums were released for the film by WaterTower Music including The Dune Sketchbook Music from the Soundtrack Dune Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and The Art and Soul of Dune on September 3 September 17 and October 22 2021 respectively Villeneuve said Zimmer spent months and months creating new instruments defining creating and seeking new sounds pushing the envelope and praised his work on the film Two singles were released on July 22 titled Paul s Dream and Ripples in the Sand 120 The film s score was nominated for the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 2022 Grammy Awards 121 Marketing EditVanity Fair published a two part extensive first look report on Dune by April 14 2020 40 Empire s October 2020 issue s cover story included an in depth look at the film and interviews with cast and crew providing additional first looks ahead of the film s trailer release 122 A teaser trailer was released on September 9 2020 featuring a remix of the Pink Floyd song Eclipse 1973 combined with Zimmer s score 123 124 Zack Sharf of IndieWire gave the trailer a positive review and wrote It s full of eye popping set design in addition to stating The two Denis Villeneuve and Greig Fraser have brought a tangibility to Frank Herbert s world that should make Dune a visceral experience for moviegoers 125 Miles Surrey from The Ringer also gave the trailer a positive review and felt the trailer undoubtedly looks promising and noted that though the source material has been notoriously unadaptable though he felt the curse could be broken due to the cast and Villeneuve s direction 126 Similarly Deadline Hollywood s Dino Ray Ramos also praised the trailer for its scale writing that it contained sci fi prestige and the epic scale that includes mind boggling action elegant cinematography and fantastical nuances that still leave room for grounded and very human storytelling 124 The first 10 minutes of the film were screened in select IMAX theaters worldwide on July 21 and 22 2021 in an event that also included a behind the scenes look at the film and the debut of the film s theatrical trailer on July 22 127 128 Angela Wattercutter of Wired stated that the trailer is begging you to see it in theaters 129 Jennifer Yuma from Variety praised the cast and visuals and praised its scope calling the trailer epic 130 Similarly Aaron Couch from The Hollywood Reporter also praised the cast and thought the film was an ambitious sci fi adaptation 131 Anthony Breznican from Vanity Fair also gave the trailer a positive review and stated It will seem more mysterious to those unfamiliar with the story but like Chani does herself in those dream missives to Paul it hints at big impressive things to come 132 Vulture s Zoe Haylock was also impressed by the trailer and advocated watching the film in theaters praising the visuals as transcendental natural settings 133 Writing for Entertainment Weekly Christian Holub felt the trailer sets the stage cleanly 134 On February 26 2019 Funcom entered into an exclusive partnership with Legendary Entertainment to develop games related to the upcoming Dune films 135 In September 2020 McFarlane Toys started a line of 7 inch figures modeled after characters from the film 136 A 12 inch figure of Baron Harkonnen was introduced at the same time 136 The action figures were released in December 2020 137 An artbook The Art and Soul of Dune was released alongside the film on October 22 2021 The book was written by the executive producer Tanya Lapointe and it included a soundtrack album of the same name composed by Zimmer The book was available in both a standard and deluxe edition 138 Release EditTheatrical and streaming Edit Dune was originally scheduled to be released on November 20 2020 but was pushed back to December 18 2020 139 36 140 The film was then delayed by the COVID 19 pandemic this time to October 1 2021 taking over the release date slot of The Batman where it was theatrically released in 3D 141 In late June 2021 Warner Bros delayed the film s American release date again by three weeks to October 22 2021 to avoid competition with No Time to Die 142 Over a month before the domestic North American release date the film had a staggered theatrical release schedule in most international markets that do not have HBO Max beginning on September 15 including France Italy Sweden and Switzerland 143 144 145 A week ahead of the United States release Warner Bros announced that the film s availability on HBO Max would start on the evening of October 21 2021 correlating with typical early Thursday theatrical showings for films released on Fridays although the studio had not been doing early Thursday previews for most of the rest of their hybrid theatrical HBO Max releases The other exception being The Suicide Squad which had the same strategy for its early Thursday previews HBO Max release 146 Like all 2021 Warner Bros films Dune was streamed simultaneously on HBO Max for a period of one month 147 The film was then removed from the service and followed the normal home media release schedule 147 148 similar to the process Warner Bros used for Wonder Woman 1984 2020 149 Villeneuve was one of several directors alongside movie theater chains and production companies including Legendary Entertainment which produced and financed the film who expressed disappointment and displeasure over the move 150 In a column published in Variety he wrote Streaming can produce great content but not movies of Dune s scope and scale Warner Bros decision means Dune won t have the chance to perform financially in order to be viable and piracy will ultimately triumph My team and I devoted more than three years of our lives to make it a unique big screen experience Our movie s image and sound were meticulously designed to be seen in theaters 151 Dune had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3 2021 152 153 It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival with an IMAX premiere screening at the Ontario Place Cinesphere on September 11 2021 154 155 Jason Momoa tested positive for COVID 19 after attending the film s London premiere on October 15 2021 156 157 On October 17 the film was leaked online ahead of its planned United States and HBO Max release 158 159 The film returned for a limited theatrical run at IMAX theaters starting on December 3 2021 160 Home media Edit The film was released digitally on December 3 2021 while Blu ray DVD and Ultra HD Blu ray versions of the film were released on January 11 2022 by Warner Bros Home Entertainment 161 After its release on home media Dune ranked first on the NPD VideoScan First Alert chart for combined Blu ray and DVD sales as well as the dedicated Blu ray sales chart 162 According to The Numbers it sold a combined 215 375 Blu ray and DVD units in the first week for 3 6 million 163 It retained the top position on both the charts of the NPD Group for the following two weeks before being displaced by Ghostbusters Afterlife 164 165 In addition it was the most rented title from Redbox kiosks for three weeks as well 166 167 It was the highest selling movie for the month of January according to the NPD VideoScan First Alert chart 168 Reception EditBox office Edit Dune grossed 108 3 million in the United States and Canada and 293 7 million in other territories for a worldwide total of 402 million 3 163 Deadline Hollywood reported that a total box office gross of 300 million the combined cost of production and marketing will make many happy from an image standpoint even if breakeven is far north of that 169 In the U S and Canada the film made 41 million in its opening weekend from 4 125 theaters 170 surpassing its projected opening weekend estimates of 30 35 million and besting the debut of Godzilla vs Kong 31 6 million for the highest opening weekend for Warner Bros during the pandemic era 169 171 Of that opening weekend take 17 5 million came from its first day ticket sales including 5 1 million from Thursday night previews Dune also had the best opening of Villeneuve s career 170 The film fell 62 in its second weekend to 15 5 million though it remained atop the domestic box office 172 173 In its third weekend it dropped by 51 to earn 7 6 million and was displaced by Eternals from the top rank 174 On November 25 2021 Dune became the second Warner Bros film of the pandemic era to cross 100 million in the US and Canada following Godzilla vs Kong 175 The film was released in 14 markets outside the US and Canada on September 15 2021 It grossed 37 9 million with the largest markets being Russia and CIS 8 9 million 176 France 7 2 million Germany 4 4 million Taiwan 3 4 million Italy 2 5 million and Spain 2 4 million 177 After adding an additional 26 3 million from 32 countries in its second weekend the film had a 10 day running total of 76 5 million 178 In China Dune opened to a 21 6 million weekend according to estimates by Warner Brothers ranking second on the country s box office behind The Battle at Lake Changjin 179 In its fourth week of release outside the US and Canada the film made 21 4 million in 75 countries a drop of 54 from the previous weekend 180 It also fell by 78 to about 5 million in China dropping to the third rank 181 182 The film crossed the 300 million global mark on November 2 183 During the fifth weekend it earned 11 1 million a drop of 52 184 This included 2 1 million in China where it dropped to the fifth rank 185 After its return to IMAX for a week on December 2 the film earned an estimated 1 8 million during the weekend a drop of 13 from the previous weekend primarily due to earning around 1 million from IMAX In Australia it debuted atop the box office chart earning 3 4 million in the opening weekend 186 The 400 million global mark was crossed on February 14 2022 with the largest running total countries outside the US and Canada being China 39 5 million France 32 6 million the UK 30 million Germany 22 5 million and Russia 21 3 million 187 Streaming viewership Edit According to Samba TV the film was watched in over 1 9 million US households during its first three days of release 188 which grew to 2 3 million within its first week of release 189 3 9 million US households had watched the film within its first 30 days of release 190 According to TV Time it was the most watched film overall in the United States from the first to the third week of its release consecutively 191 before dropping to the sixth rank in its fourth week 192 The film rose to the third rank on TV Time s chart in the final week of its availability 193 148 It was the ninth most streamed film of 2021 according to the service 194 By March 20 the film had been streamed in 5 3 million households in the US including 996 000 since the Oscar nomination announcements on February 8 195 After its release on PVOD services Dune debuted at the second position on iTunes and Vudu charts while being ranked seventh on Google Play 196 The following week it fell to the seventh position on iTunes and the third position on Vudu while maintaining its ranking on Google Play 197 After falling out of the charts for two weeks it found renewed interest as it rose to the tenth position on iTunes seventh position on Google Play and the fifth position on Vudu 198 It however fell out of the iTunes and Google Play charts again in the following week while dropping to the tenth position on the Vudu chart 199 The film was the highest selling title on Redbox s digital service for the week of January 24 30 2022 166 It was also the top ranked film on iTunes during the same week 200 Following the Academy Awards nominations it reentered the top 10 charts for iTunes Google Play and Vudu 201 Critical response Edit On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 83 of 507 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 7 6 10 The website s consensus reads Dune occasionally struggles with its unwieldy source material but those issues are largely overshadowed by the scope and ambition of this visually thrilling adaptation 202 Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100 based on 68 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 203 Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A to F scale while those at PostTrak gave it an 84 positive score with an average rating of 4 5 out of 5 stars and 66 saying they would definitely recommend it 170 Following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September 2021 early reception was generally positive receiving praise for its ambition story scope worldbuilding performances particularly that of Chalamet and Ferguson and production values though some critics considered the story to be incomplete and dull Its writing and scope continued to be praised following its release while others criticized the runtime pacing and adaptation of the source material 204 205 206 Ben Travis of Empire Robbie Collin from The Daily Telegraph and Xan Brooks at The Guardian rated the film five out of five stars 207 208 209 Travis felt the writing and direction was strong allowing it to properly establish the worldbuilding elements He also lauded Fraser s cinematography and Zimmer s score and labelled the film as being blockbuster filmmaking in the Christopher Nolan mould going on further to compare its narrative to The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 and praising Chalamet and Ferguson s performances but also felt that emotional strings were not that impactful to him 207 Brooks agreed with the sentiment that it was a high quality blockbuster film and found the missing link bridging the multiplex and the arthouse and cited the worldbuilding ensemble cast and its set pieces as positive elements 209 Collins also praised Chalamet and Ferguson s performances and the writing feeling that the script handled exposition well However he primarily drew attention to the production design and the sandworms calling the latter threateningly alien but also enticing even addictive and commented the sets ring with the desolate grandeur of ancient ruins 208 In a positive yet more critical review Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times felt the film s elements had used thematic elements from the novel well and also lauded the production values albeit deeming the visual aesthetic to be monochromatic Chang further went on to praise the plot for increasing the role of women in the story and tension regarding anticipation of action sequences which he thought were directed well However he disliked the abrupt unsatisfying ending and wanted Villeneuve s style to align with David Lynch s style which he considered to contain feverish pustular imagery 210 Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly who graded the film a B wrote that Dune had little exposition and also appreciated the worldbuilding and visual aesthetic However she did not appreciate the jokes and felt the script gradually adjusted and soon settles into a kind of grim grandeur while highlighting Chalamet and Isaac s performances 211 The New York Times s Manohla Dargis also admired the film s worldbuilding and production values but felt that its exposition and pacing was appropriate as it had further establish the former However while she felt Villeneuve had attempted to be faithful to the source material she also opined that Villeneuve was trying to satisfy the demands of the contemporary film industry Her major issues were with the film s ending and what she deemed to be a white man leading a fateful charge although she refrained from labelling it a white savior narrative 212 Critic Owen Gleiberman s review in Variety was more negative he acknowledged that he appreciated the film s worldbuilding but felt that its extensive focus on worldbuilding had undermined its storytelling He found the title of Dune Part I sic to be presumptuous commenting that it was similar to how other film franchises advertised future installments Gleiberman felt the film s spectacles including the sandworms and ornithopter sequences had caused him to be disengaged from the story saying as the movie begins to run out of tricks it turns woozy and amorphous 213 Reviewing the film for TheWrap Steve Pond noted the film s darker tone had remained consistent but cited the production design and scope as positive elements Pond began to enjoy the film s action sequences on Arrakis and appreciated that Villeneuve finds some dark poetry in the way he plays up the story s mystical elements Ultimately he was mixed on the film s dark tone commenting that it was a tonal deviation from his previous films but had also allowed it to be giant mood piece that can be exhilarating in its dark beauty 214 Allegations of cultural appropriation and white savior narrative Edit Some reviewers criticized the film for neglecting Arabian and Islamic elements which influenced the novel and appropriating them while also noting the lack of casting of Middle Eastern or North African MENA actors Screenwriter Jon Spaihts stated that they had to pull back on their use of Arabic culture embedded in the novel for the film The Arab world was much more exotic in the 1960s than it is today Today the Arab world is with us they re our fellow Americans they re everywhere If you were to build a kind of Arab future on Arrakis in a novel starting today you would need to invent more and borrow less 215 Despite the statement critics were still displeased with the film Serena Rasoul the founder of Muslim American Casting called the lack of MENA actors an erasure saying You don t cast MENA or Muslim actors yet you profit off their culture That s where it s painful for us as creatives It means that we are not good enough to be part of the film 216 The film was deemed to be more orientalist as a result 217 According to Ali Karjoo Ravary an assistant professor in Islamic studies of Bucknell University while the original novel was considered by some to have elements of the white savior narrative the lack of MENA representation in addition to the actors of African descent in roles of characters that were killed off to protect Paul and Jessica were seen to propagate this white savior narrative further within Villeneuve s film 218 217 Commenting on the issue Villeneuve stated what his intent with the film was It s a critique of that It s not a celebration of a savior It s a criticism of the idea of a savior of someone that will come and tell another population how to be what to believe It s not a condemnation but a criticism So that s the way I feel it s relevant and that can be seen as contemporary 219 Accolades Edit Main article List of accolades received by Dune 2021 film Dune was nominated for ten Academy Awards winning six 220 three Golden Globe Awards winning one 221 eleven British Academy Film Awards winning five 222 ten Critics Choice Movie Awards winning three 223 two AACTA International Awards winning one 224 ten Satellite Awards winning five 225 one Grammy Award 226 one Hollywood Music in Media Awards won 227 four People s Choice Awards 228 one Screen Actors Guild Awards 229 three Dorian Awards winning one 230 and one Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award won 231 among others It was also ranked as one of the top ten films of 2021 by the American Film Institute 232 Future EditDune Part Two 2024 Edit Main article Dune Part Two Villeneuve intended to make a two part adaptation of the novel and by November 2019 Jon Spaihts left his position as showrunner on Dune The Sisterhood to focus on writing the sequel film 39 233 Villeneuve felt that Warner Bros decision in December 2020 to simultaneously release their 2021 films through HBO Max alongside a theatrical release due to the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on cinema could compromise the film s financial performance resulting in the cancellation of the sequel though Warner Bros assured him a sequel would be greenlit as long as the film performed well on HBO Max 151 In February 2021 Eric Roth stated that he has written a full treatment for the potential sequel 234 with writing beginning that August 235 Following the success of the film Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures officially greenlit Dune Part Two in October 2021 236 237 238 After the sequel was greenlit Villeneuve s main concern was to finish the production which would benefit from all the work on the first part 236 Preliminary filming started in Italy in early July 2022 with primary filming in Budapest to begin later that month 239 240 The film is scheduled to be released on March 15 2024 Potential third film Edit Villeneuve expressed interest in making a third film based on Dune Messiah saying that its possibility depended on the success of Dune Part Two 241 242 Dune The Sisterhood Edit Main article Dune The Sisterhood In June 2019 Legendary Television announced it is producing a spin off series Dune The Sisterhood 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