Dune author Frank Herbert's script for an unmade adaptation contains some seriously weird additions
T♉he sci-fi author penned the scree♛nplay in the '70s

Dune has had its fair share of adaptation attempts. Denis Villeneuve and David Lynch brought Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel to the big screen in 2021 a🌃nd 1984, respectively, while Ridley Scott and Alejandro Jodorowsky also made their own efforts that never came to fruition.
Herbert himself also made an attempt to commit his book to celluloid with a whopping 321-page script recently rediscovered by Max Evry, a film journalist and author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: Da♒vid Lynch's Dune – An Oral History (via ).
Commissioned by a producer (who would later go on to hire Scott as director♏, albeit using a different script) in 1976, the mammoth screenplay features several pretty strange moments, fro൲m the mundane to the bizarre, including scenes that neither Villeneuve nor Lynch attempted to adapt in their own movies.
The weirdest moments involve Alia, Lady Jessica's unborn child and Paul's younger sister, a character largely omitted by Denis Villeneuve from his two-part adaptation of Herbert's book. In 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune: Part Two, she appears only in one scene, in one of Paul's visions, and we see he🅷r as an adu൲lt woman played by Anya Taylor-Joy.
Although we see Jessica communicating with her unborn daughter in the movie, we don☂'t see anything from Alia's point of view. In Herbert's script, however, there's a scene in which Alia looks directly at the camera and speaks in a "deep ecಌho." "I must be born immediately!" she demands. After birth, things get even more odd, though, as Alia witnesses… a Fremen orgy.
There's also a scene where House Atreides' swordmaster ꩵDuncan Idaho and Fremen leader Stilgar (characters played by Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem in Villeneuve's movies) take on the Harkonnens together in battle. Evry says the scene is "ridiculous", but, clunky exposition in their dialogue aside, we'd have liked to see that double act in ac🐓tion… Plus, fellow Atreides ally Gurney Halleck, played by Josh Brolin in Villeneuve movies, appears to have a Scottish accent in Herbert's vision of the movie. Why not?
Dune: Part Two is out now in cinemas now. For more, check out the biggest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies on the way in 2024 and beyond.
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