Sean Young played Paul’s love interest Chani in David Lynch’s Dune and she’s posted on Youtube a video diary (with her narration and music by Scott Joplin) of the movie. It looks like it only covers the pre-production and start of filming. Hopefully she has more home movies from this era that she could share with everyone.After the jump for the video
Category Archives: Frank Herbert
Classic Science Fiction Week: Dune by Frank Herbert
I came to Dune
Dune movie is dead (for now)
According to Deadline, the Dune movie is dead for now:
Paramount has turned loose the giant worm, and everything else that was part of the seminal Frank Herbert science fiction novel series Dune. The studio’s four-year attempt to make a movie out of the franchise has fallen by the wayside. Paramount and the rights holders came to a parting of the ways as the rights lapsed. “Paramount’s option has expired and we couldn’t reach an agreement,” said Richard P. Rubinstein, who controls the rights to what is considered the biggest-selling science fiction book ever. “I’m going to look at my options, and whether I wind up taking the script we developed in turnaround, or start over, I’m not sure yet.”
The origins of Frank Herbert’s Dune
Frank Herbert’s Dune
The novel was sparked when, in the late 1950s, Herbert flew to Florence, Ore., in a small chartered plane to write about a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to stabilize sand dunes with European beach grasses. The author was struck by the way dunes could move, over time, like living things — swallowing rivers, clogging lakes, burying forests. “These waves can be every bit as devastating as a tidal wave . . . they’ve even caused deaths,” he wrote his agent, beginning an article, “They Stopped the Moving Sands,” that was never published.