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[Music] [Music] after you make a film show like this for six years you begin looking for other things to talk about or at least different ways to talk about them does blink hold up was my mini-series from last year to talk about 90s movies again you know cuz Robin Hood Prince of Thieves gets lonely sometimes Varco simply slithers into the forest this isn't commentary on the quality many of the things I'm talking about it's telling the stories behind the effort that created the art that made history dune has been around an in development in Hollywood since Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory came out it wouldn't see the screen for the first time until 1984 that's 13 years I want people to know that films have a deeper impact than it might appear on the surface even the misses especially the misses for example without the 1984 dune film we might not have real-time strategy video games at all they definitely wouldn't exist in the same way Westwood Studios released dune 2 for PC at the end of 1992 what I mean is the Warcraft and command & Conquer franchises wouldn't have even happened without this game and it's only called dune 2 because the developers were told the other dune video game they were bankrolling was cancelled because it wasn't awesome thing was virgin games revealed just before release that the West would doom do game would in fact be called dune 2 at the same time they revealed to the studio that that that other video game uh.what wasn't cancelled flashback special effect wind chime noise slowly fading out voice voice voice [Music] put on your most ill-fitting spandex because it was just invented the year is 1959 my dear inhabitants of Coolsville USA float mysteriously with me on the sand dunes near Florence Oregon on this very sand we run into a wayward handsome boy named Frank Herbert's still lamenting the death of his cousin Oh No Joseph McCarthy they used to be cordial Frank an old cousin Joe but when it was revealed what Joe was doing it made Frank upset and frustrated with the world killing art with fascism not the best dinner conversation to have with a writer Frank saw corruption as a sort of unavoidable symptom of government power is more seductive to people who will abuse it the people you can trust with power never want it corruption is the default setting he walked out in the Oregon dunes all the time in fact he was out researching a story about the US Department of Agriculture's plan to stabilize shifting sand by planting beach grass the dunes were moving due to wind and it was causing a lot of problems even deaths in extreme circumstances there was danger in the shifting sand he often researched religions and governments squirreling away notes about the fabric of this mysterious universe he was developing these ideas collided all at once were the Messiah's and the supermen the corrupt ones it's about to get spicy in here [Music] [Music] it's the summer a71 Disney World is about to open for the very first time the Pentagon Papers are just starting to get published and shut its theatres we are so young then the company app Jack purchased the rights to film a movie version of doom this was probably more of an opportunity timing for a purchase as they were quite busy with sequels to Planet of the Apes at the time there's the usual revolving door of directors and producers for a few years as it sat on the rear burner and in 1974 things get pretty wild a consortium of French companies buy the film rights from app jack and choose Chile and French Alejandro Jodorowsky to Helmut where's that where does that music come in at nevermind what follows is a tale told magnificently in the documentary Yoda Rusty's dune needless to say it involves Mick Jagger Orson Welles Salvador Dali Pink Floyd and H R Giger the film was to be a 10 hour epic masterpiece with some reports saying the film would be as long as 14 hours it was a delirious couple years of art and wild unrestrained imagination spending 21 percent of their budget in pre-production and we move forward to 1976 the French consortium then sold the dune film rights to absolutely legendary Italian American film producer Dino De Laurentiis who deserves an episode completely devoted just to him Dino taps dune cruiser Frank Herbert to write a screenplay from his own book in 1978 when he turns it in it's a hundred and seventy-five pages long which is at least a three hour movie and pretty much any hypothetical even still Dino brings on hot up-and-comer Ridley Scott to take this thing on who then hired his own writer to try and adapt the Herbert's script into two movies and also try to keep anything they could from the euros version which brings us to 1981 the film rights are about to revert back to herbert Properties LLC dino quickly renegotiates with frank adding to those rights also the rights of the books sequels for context the book Children of Dune was published when the Jodorowsky version was picking up steam happening concurrently - all of this is a five-year financial struggle for David Lynch to make his first movie Eraserhead I guess we'll call it a body horror movie you know what watch it tell me what you see this is where Mel Brooks of all people enters the picture as he sees Eraserhead in the theaters and falls in love David and Mel end up working together on this other Ronnie rocket project for a bit but ultimately decide that it would be difficult to secure funding for that project and this is definitely how Michael J Anderson ended up on Twin Peaks because they found him here as he was likely to play the titular Ronnie rocket Brooks and Lynch ultimately end up making the Elephant Man next which Dino De Laurentiis his daughter Rafaela caught at the cinema and suggest to Dino that David Lynch could bring something to the Dune project and with that they signed David Lynch to direct the film version of doom so I'm sure all their grief is over and nothing is got--what with that Oh [Music] David Lynch took this on directly after turning down the director job on Return of the Jedi he had not read the dude books or had any familiarity with the story whatsoever I think what happened here is quite interesting by all accounts the studio put together a massive budget they built tons and tons of lavish sets it was shot on 16 sound stages in Mexico the exterior shots were filmed in Chihuahua specifically it finished on time and on budget they were proud of the thing they made Frank Herbert was around a good deal I remember boy is you know kind of that out of poison this great very happy to see his vision you don't come to life and and in whatever form I mean obviously this book had to be altered a great deal and he just seemed to be quite fine with you know whatever form it took I think dune is held up as one of the Paragons of epic science fiction storytelling it spans some 34,000 years over six books it is gents for the purposes of this exercise and my own sanity will focus just on the first book for now most truthful sentence ever incoming June is obsessed with Milosh thank you for coming to my TED talk good night Minaj is somehow everything you will live a longer life you will be where the entire world around you it can alter your ability for interstellar travel it's basically wonder super drug it runs the entire interstellar economy and it is the highest valued item in the known universe everyone's fighting over it which turns out to be good because the only place you can get it is on Arrakis which is lorded over by gigantic sandworms this planet is commonly referred to as too whoa whoa oh that's that's pretty cool Min Ah is also highly addictive and withdraw from it kills you 100% of the time the sort of unwritten rule of Manaus is you must take only the perfect amount of super drugs always and then everything is fine mess up and what you die also this is highly addicted did I not put that on the package okay Bob there's a density to lure in dune that I think is difficult to translate into a film imagine even attempting to describe the plot of the first do novel in 30 seconds Duke Leto Atreides of the house treatise ruler of the ocean planet Kyle Adonis is signed by the padishah Emperor Shaddam the forth to manage the harvesting of melange on the planet in 1984 without widespread knowledge of the source material in the first five minutes of sitting down in the theater and slurping down an ecto cooler as you do you were met with this know then that it is the year 10,000 191 the spice extends life the spice expands consciousness the spacing guild and its navigators who the spice has mutated over 4,000 years hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are people known as the Fremen Return of the Jedi came out last year I want to take a moment to say that David Lynch did a remarkable job here on only his third movie in somehow working with in extreme conditions on a massive budget were directors in this exact dilemma in their careers on the regular he managed to make some sense of the Laureus book that is ever Lord which he had never read and he got great performances across the board in the film's forty nine thousand two hundred sixty-three speaking roles like imagine if Steven Spielberg just casually dropped that he had never read Jurassic Park but like all things that go up they must come down in his review from 1984 film critic Roger Ebert said smoothie is a real mess and incomprehensible ugly unstructured pointless excursion into the murky or realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time he gave dude one star but he also gives the most erudite succinct description of Dune as a story you're probably ever gonna find Paul leads his people against an evil Baron and tries to destroy a galaxy-wide trade in space a drug produced on the desert planet spice allows you to live indefinitely while you discover you have less and less to think about damn son nailed it in one the criticisms at the time were that the film was a confusing mess where absolutely no one had any idea what was going on which is true but that also happens when you hastily cut a film down in post-production from a four-hour movie into a two-and-a-half-hour movie where pretty much all of the talking is ejected fragments of exposition hurled at the nearest character and his in the seconds assault is separated breathing and walking you provide the pumping action bringing the holy war she had which will cleanse the universe the Bene Gesserit sisterhood use it to see with him fulfill Howard has served how is the tradies three generations Arrakis is real the harkonnens are real how do you palette doon to a general audience and this film will come down to your enjoyment of the source material I think this weird extremely 80s film were steam wears a pair of those dead ends and a sandworm ride I am so glad that doing exists with this group of actors okay Patrick Stewart was absolutely not supposed to be in this movie David Lynch had picked an entirely different actor for this role would Patrick showed up on set it was too late so he's in the movie now also he had no idea who sting was which is somehow both hilarious and adorable at the same time June was a financial disaster and opened behind Beverly Hills Cop in his second week of release it was able iterated by critics but I don't really care what a strange moment in time captured perfectly in this weird disgusting at times boring very difficult to follow wonderful eighties a sting that a lot of artisans worked on and built so much for and from dune you find Lynch struggling as a filmmaker wanting to go back to more personal stuff and in a very real way the time spent working on dune immediately gave us blue velvet wild at heart and Twin Peaks conversely Dino De Laurentiis his company filed for bankruptcy four years later after some more box office duds posthumous to dune they sold off some assets and survived no one touched dune for sixteen years after that maybe dune was never meant to be a movie [Music] I think dune is the poster child for the unadaptable novel dune is a book of infinite conflict with infinite complexity it also features ideas and opinions from 1965 no please do go on about that redhot eugenics my good lad is the perfect boy on some level it's Frank Herbert's response to politics and family it's super weird and I love super weird Oh David Lynch doing the 45 million dollar 1980 super drug rodeo space movie yeah yes yeah dooms dense lure makes more sense to me this is an opinion as a miniseries and we saw one of those in late 2000 which was the first of the old sci-fi Channel miniseries premiering to some of the highest ratings sci-fi channel would ever see it did so well it paved the way immediately for Battlestar Galactica on that very Network dune is kind of a thing that never really found huge success on the main stage but somehow inspired worlds of sci-fi in every artistic medium on earth a rich field by the look of the color there was more movement back on the film front in 2008 when it was reported that Peter Berg wanted to go ahead and take a swing at this he was shopping around dune at the same time he was shopping around [Music] battleship an actual sentence and I can see why the idea of a breezy hour and 45 minute Peter Burke sand worm fight movie perked up some meters in Hollywood time went on that all kind of fizzled out because battleship which brings us to right now in a world still reeling from an ongoing global pandemic that shifted the fabric of 100% of our personal lives and a global movement is simultaneously still marching in united righteous upheaval against an unjust and racist system that has not yet seen an equally righteous accountability standard applied to it and in - greetings from 2020 bring carbs and blankets I'm saying that we've been through some stuff and true story I started making two other episodes of movies with Mikey one of which starred a Reptar Funko pop and had a late-night talk show to express some of the greater existential pitfalls of living in a psychologically taxing world of co-ed 19 I believe a creator should express themselves in the moment we're in so there's an artistic record of the moment we're in but also on some other level yes we're all feeling this and for whatever reason in this moment right now I wanted to talk about doing it it seems simple wrong again I didn't really do but the heavy finish amy was fantastic it had a satisfying story of all these different people trying to make this monumental task of continuing to Jamie just try to make it work for well over a decade and they all spent a lot of money dune time and time again proving much too difficult to adapt and I personally think a film has to speak and appeal to more than just fans of a book and just real quick before you respond John Carter called and left a message on your on your phone in December of this year Warner Brothers is planning to release a film adaptation directed by Denis Villeneuve this is a project apparently he has cared about for a long time and maybe this entire episode is just me teeing up what will be a monumental homerun of blowing people out of their seats with a dune movie that also lights up the box office starring that kid from interstellar is the perfect being that all the women made is did I write that down write the perfect boys what will happen with all of this who knows flashback noise come back with me once more to the 1950s in America for a more nuanced look at Frank Herbert and by nuanced I mean complicated Frank was at the McCarthy hearings yeah he was there he was only against them when it began to hurt the artists around him and Frank did get mad eventually and after McCarthy died in 1957 Frank started wandering around the Oregon dunes dreaming up complex relationships of people fighting over what was buried beneath the drifting sand always shifting always changing there was a product of overwhelming art born out of a moment intent on destroying it there is danger in the shifting sand the strange legacy of dune we did it we did it man Sam bacon Rihanna McBride Captain Awesome Christie shot deejay Kento Walter Taylor dead plastic cap Murray Stephanie riches Rick Osborne Adam and white suite Greg with suite Greg what a good name Tobias Hodges I'm clockwork Graham Shaw and McCloud check out our patreon patreon icon slash movies of Mikey follow me on Twitter probably don't Scott John CLE Alan hing clutch yeah these names are getting more interesting I like it Joshua Jamison Lee dome sandy and Jeremy Lester John Erickson Benedict the mad Pat Rothfuss Merlin Brittenham Lucien Meyer Mike Laidlaw a packet a Keith fan bench may strop Henrik off Kelly Naylor which is Scott John McCarty Adam Thomas Brad I enjoyed that ah I tried I did pretty good what's up Jacob cosy oh man

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Published: Fri Jun 26 2020