Dune, the david lynch files: volume 2 : six months behind the scenes on one of the biggest science fiction movies ever made

"As a young and inexperienced writer, Kenneth George Godwin met David Lynch in late 1981 to conduct interviews about the making of Eraserhead. The resulting article gained Lynch's favour and in the Spring of 1983, Godwin found himself hired by Universal Studios to help document the production of Dune in Mexico. For six months, Godwin - working with cameraman Anatol Pacanowski - observed the chaos of one of the biggest, most expensive motion pictures made up to that time. On set and behind the scenes, Godwin witnessed David Lynch wrestling with the unwieldy beast, trying to impose his particular, idiosyncratic vision on what was for the studio and producer Raffaella De Laurentiis a massive commercial enterprise. Little surprise then that the movie which resulted is both magnificent and almost fatally crippled. In this companion volume to his previous book on the making of Eraserhead, Godwin reprints an edited version of the diary he kept that summer in Mexico, along with photographs and documents, and transcripts of some of the interviews conducted by the documentary team for a video account of the production of Dune which was destined never to be completed." -- back cover Introduction 7 Dune Diary 14 Week 1: March 21-27, 1983 15 Week 2: March 28-April 3, 1983 27 Week 3: April 4-10, 1983 29 Week Three Document 43 Week 4: April 11-17, 1983 44 Week Four Documents 52 Week 5: April 18-24, 1983 53 Week Five Documents 67 Week 6: April 25-May 1, 1983 81 Week Six Documents 89 Week 7: May 2-8, 1983 94 Week Seven Documents 101 Week 8: May 9-15, 1983 107 Week Eight Documents 115 Week 9: May 16-22, 1983 123 Week Nine Documents 132 Week 10: May 23-29, 1983 138 Week Ten Documents 144 Week 11: May 30-June 5, 1983 147 Week 12: June 6-12, 1983 153 Week Twelve Document 159 Week 13: June 13-19, 1983 160 Week Thirteen Document 163 Week 14: June 20-26, 1983 164 Week Fourteen Documents 169 Weeks 15 and 16: June 27-July 10, 1983 171 Weeks Fifteen and Sixteen Documents 175 Weeks 17 and 18: July 11-24, 1983 177 Weeks Seventeen and Eighteen Documents 189 Weeks 19 and 20: July 25-August 7, 1983 194 Weeks Nineteen and Twenty Document 200 Week 21: August 8-14, 1983 201 Week 22: August 15-21, 1983 206 Weeks 23 and 24: August 22-30, 1983 213 Weeks Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four Documents 217 Epilogue 221 Dune Galleries 225 Riding the Worm: Estudios Churubusco backlot 226 Arrival at Arrakeen: Azteca Stadium 234 The Attack on Arrakeen: Aguilas Rojas 242 Rabban at the Arrakeen bridge: Aguilas Rojas 250 After the Final Battle: Estudios Churubusco backlot 258 Interviews 266 David Lynch 267 Jack Nance (Nefud) 285 Actors 298 Max von Sydow (Doctor Kynes) 299 Jurgen Prochnow (Duke Leto) 305 Patrick Stewart (Gurney Halleck) 313 Sting (Feyd Rautha) and Sean Young (Chani) 318 Crew 333 Aldo Puccini, Construction Manager 334 Bob Bealmear, Apogee, Inc. supervisor 337 John Dykstra, special effects director, Apogee, Inc. 340 Appendix 347