453 Dune (1984)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
453 Dune (1984)
- 'Ridley Scott' (qv) worked on bringing the flim to the screen, but was
unsuccessful. 'H.R. Giger' (qv) (who worked with Scott on
"Alien (1979)" (qv)) was hired as a production designer.
- Director 'David Lynch' (qv) and producer 'Raffaella De Laurentiis' (qv)
arranged a screen test in New York with 'Sean Young' (qv) for the role of
Chani. Young's agent never told Young about the meeting, and she was in
fact booked on a flight that evening to Los Angeles. Lynch and De Laurentiis
missed their flight back to Los Angeles, and ended up catching the same
plane as Young. During the flight, De Laurentiis noticed Young and told
Lynch ``I bet that girl's an actress.'' A stewardess told the pair that
her name was ``Sean Young'', and De Laurentiis confronted Young about
standing her a Lynch up. The misunderstanding sorted out, the three
ended up drinking champagne and reading the script together upon returning
to Los Angeles.
- The inspiration for the design of the stillsuits was the medical textbook
``Gray's Anatomy''.
- Once scene called for Duke Leto ('Jurgen Prochnow' (qv)) to be strapped
to a black stretcher and drugged. During one take, a high-powered bulb
positioned above Prochnow exploded due to heat, raining down molten glass.
Remarkably, Prochow was able to free himself from the stretcher, moments
before before glass fused itself to the place he had been strapped.
During the filming of the dream sequence, the Baron ('Kenneth McMillan' (qv))
approached Leto, who had special apparatus attached to his face so that
green smoke would emerge from his cheek when the Baron scratched it.
Although thoroughly tested, the smoke gave Prochnow first and second degree
burns on his cheek. This sequence appears on film in the released version.
- The tendons visible when Paul hooks the worm were made from condoms.
- Two hundred workers spent two months hand-clearing three square miles of
Mexican desert for location shooting.
- Some special effects scenes were filmed with over a million watts of
lighting, drawing 11,000 amps.
- There are rumor of a 6-hour long director's cut, but there has never been
any concrete proof of it being released. A book by 'Frank Herbert' (qv)
himself claims that only five hours of footage was filmed.
- Some scenes were filmed in the same location and at the same time as scenes
from "Conan the Destroyer (1984)" (qv).
- Lynch disowned the television cut.
- SMITHEE(David Lynch): disowned the television cut.
- DIRCAMEO(David Lynch): A radio operator on the mining ship that Paul
and Duke Leto Atreides rescue from a sandworm.
- DIRTRADE(David Lynch): [singer]: 'Sting' (qv).
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