My name is David Lynch,
welcome to the convention
In 1975 it was voted the greatest
science fiction novel of all time
Now, Universal Pictures and
Dino de Laurentiis present
author Frank Herbert's epic
story of survival and adventure
A story set on the vast
desert planet Arrakis
A world also known as...
Dune. Slate 1, Take 1
Just like a dream come true,
beautiful, beautiful
I loved working on Dune.
It was great
I didn't lift anything
heavier than a beer bottle
*laughs* on Dune,
that was a great difference
But the sheer size of the film was to provide
Lynch with his greatest challenge to date
Dune was such an unbelievable project
It was so huge, and, you know,
so many people involved
I don't think that Lynch could really
believe that he was in charge of all this.
On locations in Mexico City and in
the vast deserts of the South West
Writer director David Lynch and
Producer Raffaella de Laurentiis
are involved with the
complex and difficult task
of bringing Dune to the screen
You know, 2,500 people in costumes on this
thing you know and we walked in from rehearsal
and it was the first time I'd ever seen
this particular set and these people
and I just cracked up. Sometimes Lynch and
I would look at each other and crack up laughing
With over 70 sets, 4,000
costumes and a crew of 600
Dune is one of the most lavish
science fiction film of our times
Yet it retains a unique
personal vision
An unparallel marriage of Lynch's
vivid imagery to a story that has
inspired 4 sequels and fascinated
12 million readers worldwide
Well, it taught me a lot, making Dune
I started I think, looking back on it,
I realised that I started selling out on
the project right from the very beginning
because I didn't have final cut, I knew
the people I was working with, and again,
this intuition thing was
working with them sort of
feeling what they wanted
the film to be like
and knowing how far I could drift off that
to make it be the way I wanted it to be
and it ended up being a kinda comprise, and it
just doesn't work out so well when that happens
I think that Dune was probably
the first and last time
that that much money will be spent
on a project around, or by David
After Dune was released,
and the cut was what it was
He'll probably tell you this too,
he died a thousand deaths
a thousand deaths,
again and again and again
I was, you know, beaten down
badly after, you know, Dune
and, I had in my mind
nowhere further to fall
