The title treatment for Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. (Warner Bros.)You’ll find some people who think the 1984 David Lynch adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi book Dune is the best film ever made. It’s certainly one of the nuttiest – as huge swathes of exposition are deliberately left out rendering the movie difficult to understand, while Sting’s nappy action isn’t his finest hour. It’s no wonder the pop star doesn’t like to talk about it.If you don’t like Lynch’s version, then it’s hard not to wonder what all the other potential attempts at the iconic novel would have looked like. Ever since the book was released in 1965, producers have wanted to adapt it for the screen and aside from Lynch and now Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 take (in UK IMAX and cinemas from 22 October), many other directors have tried.Alejandro Jodorowsky’s DuneMost famously — there’s even a critically-acclaimed documentary charting his journey — the Chilean helmer was desperate to realise the book on a cinema screen. According to lore, he was the second director considered for th… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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‘Dune’: The many failed attempts to adapt Frank Herbert’s ‘unfilmable’ sci-fi classic
