Image: Sure He's Not Making A Dune Movie?

better shot of temple... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IdfXEMP5ts8/T3M6SSd9LsI/AAAAAAAABew/xmnPCWuAtXQ/s1600/road.jpg

didn't David Lynch direct Dune? and then removed his name from the credits? Ridley would have done a better job

lol no way! Didn't some-one start a thread saying "is that skull/face on top of the dome?" @ the coming.... I think it was the tv cut he wanted nothing to do with....

Yes he did because critics hated it ... flopped @ box office ... Lynch dumped the film because of pressure from both producers and financiers ... they controlled his artistic control and denied him his proper cut of the movie ... therefore he used Alan Smithee as his name in the credits ... might of been ok if he was left alone ...

Dune was offered to Ridley and he was set to do it. He ended up taking time off to deal with personal matters though. Ridley's Dune would have been incredible, but oh well. There is also a 3+ hour fan edited cut of Dune that is actually pretty good. I believe it is called Dune Alternative Edition V.2 if anyone wants to look for the torrent.

I like Dune it's one of my favourite movies. The problem with Dune is that.... because its so complex and had a huge fan base you could never please everyone. Critics rampaged on about it, then admitted that they hadn't even seen it and would never watch it because it was blasphemes. It seems a shame that even 'the life of Brian' can ruined by ghwad fearing folk just purely on the principal of that they 'think' the movie is about.

David Lynch did not have his name removed from Dune. He had his name removed from the "extended version" back years ago when it only existed as a bootleg VHS that was being passed around at sci-fi conventions. Lynch did not approve of the version and no one officially involved with the production of Dune had any involvement with making it. Much of the footage used in the extended version wasn't even finished processing (the Fremen don't have blue eyes, for example). Lynch eventually relented and allowed the extended version to be published side-by-side with the theatrical cut on the last DVD release of Dune and approved of the cut being present and legally signed off on allowing the version to "exist", but he does not want his name on it since he didn't cut it. The Dune conceptual design H.R. Giger did was not used in the Lynch version of the film. Giger had been asked (along with artist Salvador Dali) to collaborate on a Dune project under director Alejandro Jodorowsky. The project ultimately never went anywhere as there was a lack of funding and a lot of disagreement over the artistic direction the film was taking.

I thought of that too! But looks like Giger re-purposed that design for Alien or art that Alien used for inspiration. There's a doco about the unmade Jodorowsky "Dune" in the works!

@pslock ... That's more like it ... I took a quick rendition from Wiki ;) ...

woah imagine Salvador Dali on movie concept art...I wonder what his alien would look like

Haha ... you guys see the CLOVERFIELD face in the clouds in the image I posted? ... above the RT vehicle ...