[net.movies] More on "Dune"

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
				ihuxq!grumpy