Dune Nearly Stopped Ridley Scott From Directing Blade Runner

Dec 11 2022 by /Film

 

David Lynch has made a lot of wonderful movies over his filmmaking career, but "Dune" (1984) was not one of them. It was a film that was both severely limited by the quality of special effects available in the early '80s, and it had a script that tried to cram a dense 700+ page book into a single two and a half hour movie. It was never going to work.

This is why fans of Ridley Scott can look back with relief at the fact that Scott didn't direct "Dune" as originally planned. As Scott explained...

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