Dune 1984: Francesca Annis, the original Lady Jessica, lifts the lid on life behind the scenes of David Lynch’s epic, the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ of sci-fi
was a completely different animal. Frank Herbert’s seminal 1965 novel was a beast that couldn’t be tamed. Countless tried, from Alejandro Jodorowsky to the great Ridley Scott.chronicles the conflict between rival noble families as they battle for control of the harsh desert planet Arrakis and its prized drug melange, which is vital to space travel.
The production had to contend with cockroach infestations, Mexico’s byzantine bureaucracy, brownouts that necessitated having back-up generators on hand at all times, a primitive phone network, worse smog than Los Angeles, and dozens of crew going down with diarrhea.Critics were dumbfounded on the movie’s release. Roger Ebert voiced a familiar sentiment when he wrote: “It took about nine minutes to completely strip me of my anticipation.
I said “That’s impossible, I’m in the middle of a job, I’m up early every day, in the north of England… .” It’s not like today where travel is much easier…. I’ll tell you, when I first went to see the film at the premiere — and I’ve only seen it once – as soon as Princess Irulan started to talk in voice-over at the beginning, explaining the story, I thought “Uh oh, this film is in trouble.” Any Hollywood film that has to explain itself in detail at the beginning is in trouble…was that if David Lynch had been able to make his own film, it would have been brilliant, but unfortunately Dino oversaw every single tiny thing.
Anyone can shoot a film because technology is at such a high standard now, you can just point the camera somewhere. But to actually know about lenses takes years and years and it takes a real eye to know how to draw your audience into a person or into a scene, as we know very well from David’s films that came after and indeed before.The Elephant Man
Quite amazingly, it was Kyle’s first-ever screen role. He had never been in anything before. Virtually no studio these days would put a complete unknown in a massive budget movie. How much of a weight do you think was on Kyle to try and deliver this movie as its lead actor?
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