grumpy@ihuxq.UUCP (11/21/83)
At the request for more information about "Dune" (after telling about
a Dune fan club in net.movies); the following is an excerpt from
"The Movie Magazine," Winter 83/84 Volume II, Number 1:
Science fiction fans around the world rejoiced when Frank
Herbert's 1965 Hugo-award-winning novel "Dune" was slated
for the big screen, but they'll have to wait until December
1984 to see the epic. Principal photography was completed
this past September, but post-production work (special
effects and editing) will take a full year. "Dune" was
shot in Mexico, where cast and crew took over all eight
soundstages at Churubusco Studios, plus three backlot sets,
two "subsidiary" locations within Mexico City (including
the city dump, called by some crew members the "dead dog
dump"), and the Salamayuca desert near Juarez. And how
will writer-director David Lynch ("Elephant Man") and
company render the blue-within-blue Fremen eyes? By
computer--frame by frame. Creature creator Carlo Rimbaldi
(who did the rubber baby aliens in "Close Encounters," and
E. T. himself) is in Los Angeles working on the Guild
Navigator and great sandworms.
A caption to a picture of a women dressed in a white gown on the same
page reads:
British actress Francesca Annis as Jessica, mother of Paul
Atreides and disciple of the Bene Gesserit sect in "Dune."
Also shown is a scene of some Fremen fighting with lasguns among piles
of large boulders. Its caption reads:
Stillsuited warriors on the planet "Dune."
So now you know as much as I do about the upcoming movie "Dune."
See you in the movie theaters in '84!
Michael E. Bentz
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