Earlier this year we reported on the news that Pierre Morel would be taking Dune back to the big screen. I say back as David Lynch adapted Frank Herbet’s influential novel in 1983. Sadly that adaptation did not go well with Lynch eventually deciding to remove his name from the film (it was released as an Alan Smithee film).
I don’t have particularly high hopes for Morel’s version of Dune based on the films he has made so far but perhaps he will bring something to the project that we have not yet seen in his previous work. I’m still hoping that one day Alejandro Jodorowsky will return to his abandoned Dune adaptation although the chances of this are pretty close to zero.
Although there are a lot of flaws in Lynch’s Dune I have always had a soft spot for the film. First seeing it as a child I was blown away by the strange visuals and the intensity of some of the scenes. That said, it did not get close to the heights that it should of done considering the talented cast and crew.
One talented cast member who worked on the film was Sean Young and she recently posted some behind the scenes footage she shot on Super 8. You can watch this footage below which comes from her Youtube channel. She apparently has about thirty minutes more footage so keep an eye out for it there if you like the video below.
