Unadaptable.
This reputation has long stuck to the skin of
Dune
(1965), the novel cycle written by Frank Herbert (1920-1986).
However, the odyssey of the desert planet Arrakis, object of the Empire's covetousness because of its mysterious resource, the Spice, was brought to the screen more than
The Lord of the Rings
, also deemed just as "unmanageable ".
There was the aborted project of Alejandro Jodorowsky, the kitsch adaptation of David Lynch, in 1984, with Kyle MacLachlan, which the director of
Mulholland Drive
disowned, a television miniseries in the early 2000s, before Denis Villeneuve succeeded them , to acclaim, on the big screen in 2021.
How did the director of
First Contact
beat the
Dune
curse ?
“Villeneuve has a refined, mathematical, clinical, topographical aesthetic, since he shoots in real landscapes which lend themselves to the rigor of Herbert's novel.
Warner also gave him the means and authorization to do two parts,”
analyzes…
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