Why don't dune children make movies?

Dune is adapted from Frank Herbert's novel of the same name published by 1965. The film preparation process is long and difficult, and the director has changed several times. 1

In 19971year, Arthur P. Jacobs's Apjac international film company decided to shoot this film. Because Jacobs was busy shooting other films such as the sequel of Planet of the Apes, the shooting plan of Dune was delayed for one year. As the best director in Jacobs' eyes, David Lane refused to take the lead, and Charles Jarrott was also a candidate. The script creation of this film and the search for a director started at the same time. The original story outline was written by Robert Greenhut, the producer who recommended the film to Jacobs, and then Rospo Pallenberg, who later participated in the adaptation of The Barber of Siberia, took over the script. 1973, Jacobs died suddenly of a heart attack, and the sand dunes originally scheduled for shooting in 1974 were immediately destroyed.

1974 65438+In February, a French consortium bought the right to shoot the film and gave it to Alessandro JoDorovszky to direct it. In the second year, Zuo dulov plans to cooperate with salvador dali, orson welles, Gloria swanson, david carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, alain delon and mick jagger to make Dune into a 10-hour masterpiece. In Paris, he set up a pre-production team, including Chris Foss, a British painter who designed the cover of sci-fi periodicals, jean giraud, the founder of Métal Hurlant, a French comic magazine, and H·R· h.r.giger, the father of Alien. Among them, Gui Lao is responsible for designing characters and alien creatures, Fox is responsible for designing spaceships and hardware facilities, and Giger designs Hakkeni Castle according to Gui Lao's sketchpad. Dali spends $6,543,800 per hour. Soon after, Dali and Zo dulov argued about the standard of film pay, and the film production funds were exhausted before the plot series, design and script were completed. 1976, Frank Herbert, the original author of the novel who went to Europe, found that the pre-production of the film had cost 2 million dollars, while the production budget of the whole film was only 9.5 million dollars. It is said that the thickness of the script at that time was comparable to that of the telephone book, and the film length increased to 14 hour.

The right to shoot Dune was once again sold to dino de laurentiis. After a series of accidents, Zo dulov was furious because the shooting plan of Dune changed his life, and Dan O'Bannon, who was originally in charge of special effects, was admitted to a mental hospital because of the dystocia of the film. 1978, de Laurentis entrusted Herbert to write a new script, but the script of 175 pages completed by the latter was finally rejected. 1979, de Laurentis found ridley Scott as the director of this film. Scott wanted to split the novel in two, and when he started writing the script, he referred to the Battle of Algiers in 1969. Because the shooting date was far away, Scott lost patience and decided to direct blade runner. After watching Elephant Man on 198 1, Raffaella De Laurentiis, the daughter of De Laurentis, thinks that david lynch is an ideal director. Lynch decided to take this movie. Even though he had many movie contracts at that time, including Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Samurai, he knew nothing about the original novel and never thought about making a science fiction movie. 1983 On March 30th, the ill-fated sand dunes finally started shooting. Lynch's script had been revised to the sixth draft. All the films were shot in Mexico, and 1700 crew members set up 80 sets in 16 studio, and the shooting cost exceeded 40 million US dollars, many of which were shot in Samarayuca Dune in Chihuahua, Mexico.

The first edited version of this film is more than four hours long. Lynch thinks that three hours is the best film length, but Universal Pictures and investors want to shorten the film length to the standard two hours, so Lynch, producers dino de laurentiis and Raffaella De Laurentiis deleted some scenes and adopted new scenes with narration and simplified condensed plots.

It seems that the local box office was not good at that time.