Dune
Director: David Lynch
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, LGBT, Film adaptation, Cult, Thriller, Action, Drama
Year: 1984
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language, Italian Language
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Sting, Jürgen Prochnow, Kenneth McMillan, Freddie Jones, Patrick Stewart, Virginia Madsen, Max von Sydow, Richard Jordan, Siân Phillips, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill, Jack Nance, Paul L. Smith, Brad Dourif, Linda Hunt, Dean Stockwell, Alicia Witt, Sean Young, Danny Corkill, Honorato Magaloni, Judd Omen, Molly Wryn, José Ferrer, Leonardo Cimino
Dune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles. It was filmed at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City and included a soundtrack by the band Toto. The plot concerns a young man foretold as the "Kwisatz Haderach" who will lead the native Fremen of the titular desert planet to victory over the malevolent House Harkonnen.
After the success of the novel, attempts to adapt Dune for a film began as early as 1971. A lengthy process of development hell followed throughout the 1970s, during which time both Arthur P. Jacobs and Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to bring their visions to the screen. In 1981, Lynch was hired as director by executive producer Dino De Laurentiis.
The film was not well received by critics and performed poorly at the American box office. Dune has been called "obscenely homophobic", while its depiction of the Baron Harkonnen, head of House Harkonnen and antagonist of Paul Atreides, as suffering from suppurating sores has been seen as an example of how
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