DUNE: An Interview with Frank Herbert & David Lynch Part 1

[vladut06]

I remember 20 Years ago when my mother bought me "Dune"(because she heared a collegue saying that is a "good"book")) i said:what a hell is this??!! After the first page i fall inlove by "Dune" saga! NOW,20 years later, i still think that this book is the BEST ALL TIME BOOK ,and DUNE SAGA is THE BEST!!!

[kght222]

sadly lynch removed his name from the original credits. by my understanding, he thought they hacked his work to pieces.

[kght222]

holy crap, spice really is oil

[MichaelGaribaldi]

I had this tape!!!! Excellent interview

[Chrisdrumz]

In hindsight it's kind of difficult listening to this knowing that Lynch was very unhappy with the ordeal. You can hear the sorrow and weariness in his voice.

[twistedH3L1X]

My personal heroes are Frank, David, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins. You are all loved.

[twistedH3L1X]

I miss Frank terribly.

[calamagrostis88]

The movie was good but they changed the ending which destroyed the message. Paul could not crack the pavement or make it rain. And it says that he he ends war and brings peace when it is the opposite, Paul brings the Jihad across the galaxy, which in his vision he sees as the only way forward for humanity because the other paths are worse. But he still can hardly bear the burden of the path he takes until he finds freedom in the desert at the end of Dune Messiah.

[cloudvol7]

I loved the movie Dune the only crap part in it was the Baron drinking the blood of a guy in a dress,what the hell was that all about.That should've definately been a deleted scene.And all the half way decent scenes they cut out.I'm like why not that crap scene instead? I was watching the film with a friend,and when that scene came on he wanted to turn it off,but the rest of the film was very good to me.I wanna get the extended version!

[roachy333]

@cloudvol7

Baron drinking the blood of the guy in the dress....it's a device for showing his (Baron's) homosexual tendencies. They don't come much more 'camp' than the Baron.

[gooyzit]

wow, Frank almost sounds just like Lynch

[TheAltair4]

Wow! This is a truly fascinating and enlightening interview. It sounds to me like these two guys had a really great relationship with each other. I knew that Frank Herbert was more than satisfied with the movie, but i didn't realize that he liked is so much as to be disappointed that certain "pet' scenes didn't make the final cut.

[Johnlindsey289]

@TheAltair4

Well Lynch wasn't very happy making the movie because he's not a Sci-fi kind of dude but was a gun for hire when he wrote the script based on 2 rejected Dune scripts. Herbert actually changed his mind when saw it at the premiere even when it rained on Arakkis and Lynch disowned this movie as it's the redheaded stepchild of his career. I would have loved to see Alejandro Jorodowsky's take.

[Wargoat6]

@Johnlindsey289 By all accounts, Jorodowsky would have even LESS to do with the book than Lynch's interpretation. Many stories online about that.

[positronicfeed]

@Wargoat6 I think the same could be said of the script Ridley Scott was trying to get Herbert's approval on. Ridley's would have had it's feet on the ground as opposed to the looney Jodorowsky version. But I think in order to make a successful film out of Dune you have to strip the story down to it's core and re-write, so it's a film inspired by Dune as opposed to being a film version of the book. Because I don't think it's possible to get the whole story down to a 2 - 2.5 hour film.

[Wargoat6]

@positronicfeed The last director for the new Dune project (currently in development hell) wanted to make a trilogy. That would've done it much justice.

[positronicfeed]

@Wargoat6 That was Peter Berg right? Did he want to make the first book into a trilogy or the first three books?

[Wargoat6]

@positronicfeed actually, it was the 2nd guy they got for the project, Peter Morel. Now he's quit the project too.

[positronicfeed]

@Wargoat6 :( I really want to see a new version of this with a proper big budget and decent sfx. It would have to be relatively unknown talented young actors for the main roles (Paul, Chani, Irulan, Idaho, Feyd, etc...) and Anthony Hopkins/Meryl Streep calibers for the supporting cast (Duke Leto I, Shaddam IV, Baron Harkonnen, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Mohiam, etc...) imho.

[Wargoat6]

@positronicfeed I could see that working. With the main roles played by lesser known talent, it's less distracting to character development. If there's one character I want to see done right, it's got to be Idaho. In both the movie and the miniseries, he seems to be relatively undeveloped.

[positronicfeed]

@Wargoat6 Of course. Idaho. He doesn't really become that much of a prominent figure until later on in the books but his importance increases as he gets returned to life as gholas since he's the only guy who remembers everything. Him and Leto II. And by the end of the octology more or less everyone. :)

[Craigmin]

Dino looks like the late Barry Goldwater.

[jeffrags2]

David's (presumably) haircut looks like something from Baron Harkonnen's ship. lol

[mrlopez2681]

I have this tape to!!!!

[Raskoilniki]

Awesome!!

[junius80]

Jeez, are those eyebrow hair he has hooked like that? Insp. for Thufwe Hawatteeeetteee?.......singing into the mist.....

[titoburrito777]

Thank you so much for posting this. Herbert will always be one of my heroes.

[Ash595]

amazing found. Thanks

[anisblond]

Thanks!!