cjh (12/30/82)
This month's LOCUS has the first installment of a new column by Craig Miller, who was Lucasfilm's fan publicist for TESB and started his own company after being laid off by Lucasfilm just after TESB came out. He says that DUNE is once again in preproduction (which can take up to a year before a foot of film is shot) under DeLaurentiis, but there's no way of telling whether this attempt will get any further than the other two. (There's a polite undertone that I read as "If you expect to see DUNE as a movie any time soon I've got this terrific bridge I can let you have real cheap. . . .")