While most filmmakers would insist that their movies deserve to be seen on the big screen, in the case of Dune, Director Denis Villeneuve has a point. A very good point. Indeed, having seen it yesterday in an IMAX laser screen, Dune is arguably the ultimate “large format” movie I’ve ever seen.
Based on the classic Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 novel, the film has a scope and scale that is beyond the majority of narratives – and attempting to get it onto the big screen has been one of the great cinematic challenges. Famously, cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky tried hard to get the movie made in the 1970s, and as a 2013 documentary depicts, its script, storyboards, and concept art were completed but with a script that was estimated to run to a 14-hour film, and a cast including Salvador Dali, it never got off the ground.
Filmed For IMAX has rarely meant more than for Dune.
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In 1982 Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis bought the…