Dune Movie Reboot Starts Filming & Gets An Official Synopsis

Filming has formally started on Denis Villeneuve ’s reboot ofDune , which has also expel an prescribed synopsis . Published in 1965 , Frank Herbert ’s novelDunewent on to become a classic of skill fiction , with its mythologic story of a far succeeding world ruled by warring family and tie together by a mystical substance called the spice . David Lynch turnedDuneinto a movie in 1984 , but the film was a turkey at the box office ( though it has gone on to achieve cult classic condition ) . A TV miniseries version ofDunewas produce in 2000 , and was afterwards followed up byChildren of Dune , an adaptation of Herbert ’s own sequel novel .

Now , Blade Runner 2049filmmaker Denis Villeneuve will take his own crack at bringingDuneto the self-aggrandizing screen . Oscar nomineeTimothée Chalamet heads up the castas Paul Atreides , the shaver of fortune at the shopping mall of Frank Herbert ’s massive story . He ’ll be get together by a formidable cast includingRebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica , Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides , Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck , Stellan Skarsgård as the evil Baron Harkonnen , Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho , Zendaya as Chani , Javier Bardem as Stilgar and Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam . In the most recent bit of casting news , Chang Chenis reportedly in talksto bring the purpose of Dr. Yueh .

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As reported byBusiness Wire , Denis Villeneuve is now officially rolling on his genius studded new adaptation ofDune . Produced by Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment , the motion-picture show is shooting in Budapest , Hungary and in Jordan . Villeneuve write the playscript together with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts . An prescribed synopsis has now also been released and can be scan below :

A mythic and emotionally charged hero ’s journey , “ Dune ” tells the story of Paul Atreides , a bright and talented youthful man hold into a bully circumstances beyond his understanding , who must travel to the most dangerous satellite in the universe to ensure the hereafter of his family and his people . As malevolent force explode into difference of opinion over the satellite ’s exclusive supplying of the most wanted resourcefulness in cosmos — a commodity capable of unlocking manhood ’s greatest potential difference — only those who can conquer their care will survive .

Dune ’s original trip to the big silver screen was a legendarily unmanageable process that first saw the chronicle pass through the hands of cult movie maker Alejandro Jodorowsky , whose ambitious but in the end fail attempt to make a movie out of Herbert ’s novel was chronicled in the documentaryAlejandro Jodorowsky ’s Dune . Ridley Scottlater inherit the project , but alternatively go on to make a unlike sci - fi definitive inAlien . Producer Dino De Laurentiis finally realized the ambition of bringingDuneto theatre , with David Lynch as director , but the moving-picture show would prove to be a box office flop and a in person atrocious experience for Lynch .

Almost 30 years after Lynch’sDuneseemed to kill all hope of a sincerely successful version of Herbert ’s epic record book , Denis Villeneuve will now examine to crack the codification . Unlike Lynch , Villeneuve will have the sumptuosity of dividingDune ’s Brobdingnagian and thick story into two movies . He will also have the benefit of modern Clarence Day digital effects . He has already assembled an undeniably fascinating cast of actors to play the report ’s many quality ( and he is n’t done sum up yet ) . After make a largely successful sequel toBlade Runnerdecades after the original , perhaps Villeneuve is the perfect somebody to bringDuneto theaters and in truth do justice to Herbert ’s book .