Exclusive: Dune’s Denis Villeneuve Talks Bringing Frank Herbert World to Life in New Featurette

Collider got exclusive access to a new featurette where cineast Denis Villeneuve talks about how he designed the world of Dune in a way that honored Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi novel. Entitled “My Desert, My Dune,” the featurette explores the long and arduous process Villeneuve went through to bring his vision of Dune to life. In the video, Villeneuve says that “Dune took years to be made because it was a challenge to respect the spirit of Frank Herbert´s book and bring it to the big screen.” Herbert’s book had already been adapted once by David Lynch, in 1984, during a production so chaotic that the director removed his name from the credits. Since then, Dune has been considered unadaptable. That is, until Villeneuve split the book story into two and brought a beautiful and vibrant vision of the first half to theaters last year. To achieve the critically acclaimed result of Dune, Villeneuve focused on the design of a world that felt alive. In the director’s words, “maybe the most important thing of all,