Directed by Denis Villeneuve / Screenplays by Denis Villeneuve, John Spaihts and Eric Roth

A whole book could be written about the many and various efforts made over the years to bring Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 novel to the big screen. Two early attempts, by Planet of the Apes producer Arthur P. Jacobs and Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (the latter poised to feature a stellar cast including Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí), both foundered in the 1970s. Later in that decade, producer Dino De Laurentiis commissioned a screenplay from Herbert himself, and hired director Ridley Scott, who had just completed Alien. Scott subsequently dropped out of the project to direct Blade Runner, whereupon De Laurentiis offered the job to David Lynch, whose reputation was on the rise following 1980’s The Elephant Man. Lynch took over the script, and the resulting picture - the first adaptation of Dune to make it to the screen - was released in 1984. With a cast led by Kyle MacLachlan alongside Francesca Annis, Freddie Jones, Patrick Stewart and rock star Sting (in the same role that Jagger would have played in the abandoned Jodorowsky version), Lynch’s visually ravishing, unashamedly intricate and occasionally downright peculiar film received mixed reviews, but is now revered as a cult classic. A TV miniseries followed in 2000, but it wasn’t until the current decade that the cinema made its next trip to the desert planet of Arrakis, this time courtesy of Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, whose Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 had established his credentials as a heavyweight of the genre. With Timothée Chalamet stepping into Kyle MacLachlan’s shoes as the hero Paul Atreides, and a supporting cast including Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem, Charlotte Rampling and Florence Pugh, Villeneuve’s formidable magnum opus is due to conclude with a third and final instalment in 2026.

Framed Dimensions: 330mm x 410mm

Acrylic on 300gsm Arches oil paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.