The 78th Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with one of its strongest line-ups in recent memory. And among the films taking their world premiere bows is Denis Villeneuve’s long-gestating adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic Dune.
The grand scale of the novel outfoxed directors like Alejandro Jodorowsky (whose version never got to set) and David Lynch (who disowned his version citing producer and financier interference), but Villeneuve’s version promises to be definitive.An epic tale of warring families, inhospitable landscapes and giant creatures, Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune splits the complex 400+ page novel in the middle, focusing the action in this first half on establishing the dense lore, and specifically on the
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