Vanity Fair has just released part two of its preview of Dune, featuring new images of the cast, which includes the likes of Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya and more. In part one, we got a first look at Timothée Chalamet in his leading role as Paul Atreides. In this article, Chalamet elaborates on the experience of filming Dune, with the cast and crew venturing deep into the sandstone and granite canyons of southern Jordan.
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“It was really surreal,” said Chalamet. “There are these Goliath landscapes, which you may imagine existing on planets in our universe, but not on Earth.” This setting is for the fictional planet Arrakis, which is the only known location of the galaxy’s most vital resource, a drug called melange, mainly referred to as “the spice”.
Director Denis Villeneuve himself explained that he took on the project because Warner Bros. agreed to let him tell the story in two films, going the same path as the adaptation of Stephen King’s It. “I would not agree to make this adaptation of the book with one single movie,” said Villeneuve. “The world is too complex. It’s a world that takes its power in details.”
He also feels that Dune is a novel that has relevance in the 21st century, given the themes that it explores. “It was a distant portrait of the reality of the oil and the capitalism and the exploitation — the overexploitation — of Earth. Today, things are just worse. It’s a coming-of-age story, but also a call for action for the youth.”
Dune will be released in cinemas December 18, 2020.
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