Making ‘Dune’ – Here’s How Denis Villeneuve and His Team Pulled Off Sci-Fi Epic (Video)

This story concerning the making of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” first appeared within the Beneath-the-Line situation of TheWrap’s awards journal.

“Possibly there’s a self-preservation chip that I don’t have,” Denis Villeneuve stated with fun. The Canadian director has good cause to say that, contemplating that his final film was a sequel to an all-time traditional, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,” and his new one is an try to put Frank Herbert’s huge sci-fi novel “Dune” on the display. That’s a job that had beforehand confounded administrators together with Scott, Alejandro Jodorowsky and David Lynch (who, to be honest, made a model, although neither he nor anyone else appreciated it). 

“I prefer to put all of the chips on the desk, to leap with out nets,” stated Villeneuve, whose different movies embody “Sicario,” “Prisoners” and “Arrival.” “There’s one thing about the great thing about the gesture if you’re taking a giant threat creatively that I’m deeply comfy with.”  Right here’s an unique video on the making of “Dune” ready for the Jan. 11 residence video launch of the movie:

As you may anticipate from his current filmography, the 54-year-old director was a sci-fi child rising up in Québec, with favorites that ranged from “2001: A House Odyssey” (“I found it on tv and was mesmerized”) and “Planet of the Apes” (“fairly terrifying”) to French graphic novelists to science fiction writers like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.

“Sci-fi was type of an escape pod from actuality for me,” he stated. “I used to be obsessive about the ability of science fiction, in the best way it explores darkish elements of the human situation in a really dynamic and poetic manner.”

Villeneuve’s personal sci-fi streak started with 2017 Greatest Image nominee “Arrival” and continued with “Blade Runner 2049,” which he calls “a gorgeous dangerous thought.” “Dune,” envisioned as half one in every of two movies that may embody Herbert’s e-book, is his largest enterprise so far, creating breathtaking alien worlds however utilizing them as backdrop to a narrative of energy and household. To tug it off, he relied on a crew of artists and craftsmen, lots of whom he’s labored with prior to now. “I’m beginning to construct a household of artists,” he stated. “It’s about communication and about inventive complicity.”

On this particular part, 9 of Villeneuve’s key collaborators speak about their work on “Dune.”

Learn extra from TheWrap’s “Dune” package deal right here:

Why ‘Dune’ Manufacturing Designers Constructed a ‘Visible Bible’ Earlier than Day One in every of Taking pictures

‘Dune’ Costume Designers Have been Impressed by Every little thing From Balenciaga to Tarot Playing cards to Bugs

‘Dune’ Cinematographer Nonetheless Finds Sand in His Baggage 2 Years After the Shoot

The Sound of ‘Dune’: The Large Worm Was Onerous, however the Magical Voice Was More durable

Why ‘Dune’ Editor Traveled to Budapest However Wouldn’t Go on the Set

Why ‘Dune’s’ Largest Visible Results Problem Wasn’t the Worms However the Sand

‘Dune’ Composer Hans Zimmer Reveals the Word That ‘Tore the Enamel Off My Tooth’

Learn extra from the Beneath-the-Line situation right here.