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Dune

  • TV Mini Series
  • 20002000
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  • 4h 25m
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Dune (2000)
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A three-part miniseries on politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah. Based on Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel.A three-part miniseries on politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah. Based on Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel.A three-part miniseries on politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah. Based on Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
23K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,293
260
  • Stars
    • William Hurt
    • Alec Newman
    • Giancarlo Giannini
  • Stars
    • William Hurt
    • Alec Newman
    • Giancarlo Giannini
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 306User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    • Won 2 Primetime Emmys

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    2000

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    William Hurt
    William Hurt
    • Duke Leto Atreides
    Alec Newman
    Alec Newman
    • Muad'Dib…
    Giancarlo Giannini
    Giancarlo Giannini
    • Padishah - Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
    Uwe Ochsenknecht
    Uwe Ochsenknecht
    • Stilgar
    Saskia Reeves
    Saskia Reeves
    • Lady Jessica Atreides
    P.H. Moriarty
    P.H. Moriarty
    • Gurney Halleck
    Ian McNeice
    Ian McNeice
    • Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
    Matt Keeslar
    Matt Keeslar
    • Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
    László I. Kish
    László I. Kish
    • Glossu Rabban
    Julie Cox
    Julie Cox
    • Princess Irulan Corrino
    Zuzana Geislerová
    Zuzana Geislerová
    • Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
    Philip Lenkowsky
    Philip Lenkowsky
    • Guild Agent
    Laura Burton
    Laura Burton
    • Alia Atreides
    Pavel Vokoun
    • Guard
    James Watson
    James Watson
    • Duncan Idaho
    Miroslav Táborský
    Miroslav Táborský
    • Count Hasimir Fenring
    Barbora Kodetová
    Barbora Kodetová
    • Chani
    Jakob Schwarz
    Jakob Schwarz
    • Otheym
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    • Trivia
      After the production's completion and before its premiere, the Sci-Fi Channel authorized writer/director John Harrison to write and direct a sequel miniseries. Harrison planned to base the next miniseries on Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. This eventually became the miniseries Children of Dune (2003), which Harrison wrote but did not direct.
    • Goofs
      The computer generated "'thopters" have fans on the back wings to make them fly. The actual close-up models are missing these fans.
    • Quotes

      Jessica: You see her standing there, so haughty, so confident. Let us hope she finds solace in her writing and her books. She'll have little else. She may have my son's name, but it is we, the ones who carry the name concubine, that history will call wives.

    • Alternate versions
      There exist four versions of this mini series:
      • the original version presented to the Sci-Fi channel which runs ca. 280 minutes and was deemed unsuitable by Network execs/censors. This version was used everywhere else.
      • the American TV version (ca. 265 min., see below)
      • the UK version (see below)
      • the Director's edition which adds ca. 6 minutes to the original version (ca. 286 min., see below)
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      Featured in Frank Herbert's Dune: The Lure of Spice (2000)

    User reviews306

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    7/10
    If only movies had spliceable DNA as well as frames...
    I was wondering if I needed to wait until viewing the entire mini-series version of Frank Herbert's seminal science fiction classic, but now having seen Part One, I know that won't be necessary.

    How I wish there were some way to extract the charisma of the movie's cast, and somehow meld it with the production values and plotline of the new version. That way, fans of this sprawling allegorical tale could have the best of both worlds. Not that there aren't admirable things about both versions.

    Where the magnificent photography of the late, great Freddie Francis served well David Lynch's more ethereal tendencies in the 1984 version, Vittorio Storaro's cleaner, clearer images for Harrison's miniseries could very well be a metaphorical reflection of the ever-expanding vision of its hero, young Paul Atreides (nee Paul Mu'ad D'ib.) The production design of both films is lavish, but where Lynch's film gave locations and accoutrements a more lived-in look, the mini's similar designs, though equally accurate by the novel's standards, reflect that antiseptic cleanliness that we are learning to recognize more and more with the advent of digital technology and its application to cinematic visual techniques.

    With a few exceptions, the casting and therefore the subsequent performances are just as clean and clear-cut, dispensing with some of the character's humanity in exchange for the original's hystrionics of its more memorable characters.

    Where Kenneth McMillan's unredeemably repulsive yet completely unforgettable Baron Harkonnen was the apex of pustulant, corpulent evil, Ian McNeice's version comes off as daintily perturbed, as if the most upsetting event in his worldview is not being served tea on time. William Hurt and Saskia Reeves capture the confident, manor-bred mantles of Duke Leto and the Lady Jessica accurately enough, but gone are the sorrowful grace of Jurgen Prochnow and the stunning Francesca Annis, whose relationship seemed tinged with the inescapable taint of a prophecy waiting to be fulfilled, and the damned, doomed parts they both played in its unfolding.

    The rest of the cast, though gamely essaying their roles to the best of their ability, could hardly hope to match the powerhouse ensemble assembled by Italian mega-mogul Dino de Laurentis. For years, David Lynch was wrongfully assigned the blame for butchering his own film, when buffs everywhere know that he suffered through the ham-handed, studio-supervised editing of what should've been a landmark of science-fiction filmmaking, similar to what Terry Gilliam would endure at the same studio with BRAZIL.

    Further insult was added to the injury when a four-hour cut was assembled by Universal for the TV version, which Lynch promptly removed his name from, (hence the traditional "Smithee" credit for direction, and the writing by "Judas Booth.")

    While it is a splendid example of how CGI and other visual technological developments are making it possible for filmmakers to maintain accuracy and a truth to tell those stories it would've been impossible to film over a decade ago, (and for about half the cost), I for one do miss the star power and (at least) some of the remarkable acting in the Lynch version. I suspect where more money was spent on securing stars in '84 than for the sets and costume designs, the exact opposite is true for the new miniseries.

    New and old fans of the tale should view and enjoy the latest version for the visuals, then go back and review the movie for the Lynchian touch, which in some odd but affecting ways came closer to Herbert's underlying messages of mysticism, miracles and seizing one's destiny than the Harrison version. In any case, you can come away with some elements of the best of both DUNE worlds.
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      • December 3, 2000 (United States)
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    • Filming locations
      • Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Milk & Honey Pictures
      • Evision
      • New Amsterdam Entertainment
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    • 4 hours 25 minutes
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