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Dune: Part Two (2024)
Dune: Part Two is a 2024 American epic space opera film directed by Denis Villeneuve, from a screenplay he wrote with Jon Spaihts. It is a sequel to Dune (2021) in a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, and the second of a trilogy of films developed by Legendary Pictures. Timothée Chalamet leads a twelve-actor ensemble cast as Paul Atreides, an exiled monarch who allies with the Fremen…
Directed by Denis Villeneuve · Shot by Greig Fraser · Cut by Joe Walker · Music by Hans Zimmer · Ratio 1.85:1 · 166 min
How it was made
- The cast trained with married linguists David and Jessie Peterson to speak Chakobsa, the constructed Fremen language, with dialect coach Fabien Enjalric then shaping each actor's individual delivery.
- Austin Butler was cast as Feyd-Rautha without an audition, then spent four months on a fitness regimen and knife training, and modelled the character's voice on Stellan Skarsgård's Baron Harkonnen.
- Cinematographer Greig Fraser tested the refurbished Soviet Iron Glass lenses he had used on The Batman but found them inadequate for the production, switching instead to nine Iron Glass MKII Prime lenses in 37mm, 58mm and 85mm.
- A two-day pre-shoot took place at the Brion tomb in Italy, a cemetery complex designed by architect Carlo Scarpa, which doubled as the imperial court for scenes with Irulan and Shaddam IV.
- Desert dune photography was shot at the Liwa Oasis in Abu Dhabi, while canyon and rock formations such as Wadi Rum and al-Siq were filmed in Jordan, with the camera crew spending roughly two months shooting across the two countries.
- Sets were built at Hungexpo, a 103,000-square-foot convention centre in Budapest, because the production needed considerably more set space than the first Dune film.
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