Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!reiher From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: DUNE Message-ID: <6244@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:47:50 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6244 Posted: Wed Jul 3 20:47:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 00:37:48 EDT References: <2202@ut-sally.UUCP> <285@mit-vax.UUCP> <> <344@cubsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher) Distribution: net.movies Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 24 Summary: In article <344@cubsvax.UUCP> eli@cubsvax.UUCP (Eli Haddad) writes: >Does anyone know that DUNE was a 4 hr long movie that was edited to >around 2 hrs. If anyone was lucky to see the whole thing tell me >how it was. As I understand it (based on interviews with David Lynch and a question and answer session with Frank Herbert), this isn't quite correct. Every scene in the book was shot (plus, obviously, a few that were not), resulting in much more than 4 hrs worth of footage (more like 6 hrs, I'd guess). In an attempt to make it more marketable, Lynch cut it down to about 2 1/2 hrs., losing far too much important stuff. Herbert hopes that the complete footage will be shown on television as a miniseries, much as the two Godfather movies plus extra footage were shown. He also hopes to get rid of the rain at the end. I have never heard of there being a 4 hr cut, though I have little doubt that, at some point in the editing process, the incomplete film ran that long. I doubt if there was actually a showable 4 hr. print complete with corrected color, fully mixed sound, etc. -- Peter Reiher reiher@ucla-cs.arpa soon to be reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher