How Dune’s visual effects made an unfilmable epic possible

Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Dune was long considered an impossible adaptation, too weird to bring to the screen in a truly faithful way, and too beloved by its fans for any filmmaker ( even David Lynch ) to change. And then along came celebrated Arrival director Denis Villeneuve, who has a knack for handling complex themes and storytelling elements within the sci-fi genre, as well as one critically acclaimed "unfilmable" project, Blade Runner 2049 , already on his resume. His adaptation of Dune — the first chapter of a two-part story — not only won over critics, but it managed to perform well at the box office amid a theater-throttling pandemic. Among the team Villeneuve assembled for Dune was two-time Oscar winner Paul Lambert , his visual effects supervisor on Blade Runner 2049 , who took home an Academy Award for his work on that film and then repeated that feat the following year for the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man . Lambert's talent for grounding sci-fi spectacle in relatable elements of the real world was put to the test in Dune , and with the visual effects earning the film an Oscar nomination, he spoke to Digital Trends about… Read full this story

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