Then as we were making a movie about Dune, we had to negotiate the influence of Star Wars. “George Lucas was inspired by Dune when he created Star Wars. “It was a very long process to find this identity in a world with the giant elephant of Star Wars in the room,” Villeneueve told Empire ( via Syfy Wire). It’s part of the challenge of making a Dune movie for a 2021 audience shaped by Star Wars.
Star Wars wrote the book when it comes to science fiction epics on the big screen, so it’s only natural that audience members will draw comparisons between Villeneuve’s movie and Lucas’ saga that don’t necessarily consider a book published in 1965. The massive success of Lucas’ Dune-inspired franchise was actually something director Denis Villeneuve had to contend with while making part one of his planned Dune trilogy of films. There are so many similarities between Dune and Star Wars that if you squint a little you could even call the 1977 blockbuster the first successful Herbert adaptation…from a certain point of view.
The storyboard drawings of Moebius, and the artist’s later comic book collaborations with Jodorowsky, would heavily inform Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element.īut there’s perhaps no bigger student of Herbert, Jodorowsky, and Dune than George Lucas, who clearly looked to Paul Atreides’ adventures on Arrakis when crafting Luke Skywalker’s own quest in the galaxy far, far away. Giger’s grotesque work on Jodorowsky’s Dune, especially his nightmarish vision for Baron Harkonnen’s castle, would become the basis for the Xenomorph and the alien space ship in Ridley Scott’s Alien. Alejandro Jodorowsky, the avant-garde filmmaker behind El Topo and The Holy Mountain, tried to adapt Herbert’s book in the ’70s, and while that movie never got made, many of its ideas and designs would later make their way into other sci-fi films thanks to the legendary storyboard the filmmaker sent to Hollywood studios while pitching his movie. If you’ve watched the excellent documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, you know how the story goes. In fact, you can easily track how Herbert’s creation led to some of the biggest blockbuster franchises of all time.
When Frank Herbert published “Dune World,” the first part of what would become the novel Dune in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1963, it was a moment that would reverberate through modern science fiction for decades to come, especially on the big screen, where the story’s influence can still be felt to this day.
This article contains spoilers for Dune and Star Wars.
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