Star director reveals: Why your Dune necessarily see in the cinema

Director Chloé Zhao has not only got an Oscar for the award-winning Movie Nomadland, but has also led the directional wand in the coming Marvel blockbuster Eternal. Currently she speaks about a completely different movie - which she has completely boned.

After most cinemas have repeated their doors, the question of those films that appear nur appear in the cinema and not at the same time on a streaming platform such as Disney + or HBO max. Director Chloé Zhao, which has filmed Nomadland and also behind the Coming Marvel Film Eternals is, in the case of Dune , the topic - the mostly dedicated science fiction epic 2021.

Zhao explains that she was already allowed to see the movie and he truly dealt by. But they have horrible fear from being that people do not go to the cinema and experience the experience:

There is a hope that filmmakers like Denis make it to really take advantage of their visions and create something that is so unimaginable, so created for the cinema . The experience in this room has just blew me. But I also have a horrible fear that many people do not go and do not make the experience I did in a cinema, and I wonder what that means for the future.

Denis Villeneuve has previously been filmed among others Blade Runner 2049 , a movie whose huge pictures could give you a foretaste of Dune. Despite Villeneeuves desire to publish Dune only in the cinema, the film will appear at the same time in streaming service HBO max.

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What you know about Dune

Denis Villeneuves coming epic Dune filmed a universe, which was a long time as unmistakable: David Lynch had already dared to the desert planet in 1984, with moderate success. Then silence, apart from a TV riding device with James Mcavoy and Alice Krige, who conveyed even more successful on moving pictures due to its length Dune. In blockbuster format, however? Nobody has dared to talk to that until now - to Villeneuves Dune, the on 16 . September should appear in the cinemas worldwide.

What makes Dune so unmistakable? The cyclic book series describes a completely own universe whose characters carry imaginative clothing to foreign locations; Huge sandworms occur, Spicentic battles, dream sequences, glowing eyes, and on top of them: a story that roots politically and philosophically complex topics discusses between a whole group of main characters. Also, there is this feeling that the Dune in a recovery, this mystical, which can be captured alone in a blockbuster. In short, the right technique needs the right actor and half a genius to press a complex book into a movie. But director Denis Villeneuve, who has already made fantastic work with Blade Runner 2049, could do it this year. Together with main actor Timothée Chalamet, without which the new filming of Dune might not exist.

The Dune Saga: Important background knowledge without spoiler

The Dune saga plays about 20,000 years in our future; So far away, that the memory of the earth is faded. For millennia, people have developed and a number of planets in the all populated. The journey with lighting speed through the universe is the key to the continued existence of the human empire, but 10,000 years before the start of the Dune saga, humanity has eliminated thinking machines and artificial intelligence; During the Butlerian Jihad .

A new way through the all had to be found - a way that has become possible by the mysterious substance Spice Melange (short: spice) *. Extremely high levels of spice enable artificially developed people to mutate creatures that can safely navigate spaceships through all. But other people also consume spice; It extends life, changing the mind and gives its consumers supernatural skills such as increased sensory perception and future visions. However, SPICE also makes addictive and a withdrawal kills people. Users of Spice you can generally recognize that your * eyes light blue light up .

Spice is only available on a single planet in the whole universe: Arrakis , or Dune, the desert planet. However, the degradation of this important substance is not without, because not only is the desert of Arraki's life-threatening, it is roamed by Spicentic sandworms , which can devour whole cities.

The main character Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet

Paul Atreides is the 15-year-old son of the noble house Atreides, and as it were the product of a breeding program, which ran over generations. Control over this program have the bene gift , an exclusive, mystical circle of mighty women who want to direct the fate of humanity through their influences, intrigues and forces. They also consume spice.

At the beginning of Dune, the noble family ateides is forced due to an intrigue to Arrakis; The family has enemies in very high ranks. Paul Atreides takes a key role here, because something mystical awakens in him, something that will change his life forever. This means a catastrophe for the breeding program mentioned above, because Paul's mother (a member of Bene Gesserit) has the mission to give Duke Leto Atreides no son to give birth. However, she falls in love with him, disregards the order and gives Paul's life. This circumstance alone, which sells highest complexity, is only a fraction of the multifaceted myth, which is at least established in the Dune series.

Why is Dune such an important science fiction classic? After everything described here, one thing is certain: You should read the Dune series to immerse yourself in the complex universe. Dune is one of the most important science fiction books ever, it has inspired epics like Star Wars or Blade Runner to name a few. Without Dune, the world of Sci-Fi would look different today - and Dune is not just an entertaining epic. About the sophisticated saga, important questions of life are made and answered, so or so: Dune to read you can only be the advantage.