(Chia Bella James/Warner Bros.)“I knew the big challenge was to make sure that to enjoy the movie you don’t have to have read the book,” Villeneuve says. But as the first installment in a planned two-part epic, “Dune” is a gamble of another order of magnitude. From the start, Villeneuve made clear that he would only take on “Dune” if he could break the book into two films. In Herbert’s book, Kynes is a man but in the film she is a woman, played by British actress Sharon Duncan-Brewster. “Herbert’s novel is, to some extent, an artifact of its time and it definitely skews male in ways that don’t feel completely contemporary now,” he says.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 24, 2021 18:56 UTC