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Rock. I appreciate that. And, moreover, my wife will too!

For those interested, I'm searching all of my old backup discs to try and put that Dune article out on my site.

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speaking of dune, fans should check out both the unabridged audiobook on cd and the hardcover of the road to dune. Quite an awesome book from Kevin J.anderson, brian herbert and unpublished bits from frank herbert.t


I haven't seen this anywhere online, do you have a link for the cd(s) ?

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Have any more details come out about the expanded edition? Specifically if it will have the FX fixes or even Lynch's name? It's been billed as widescreen ... is it genuine widescreen or are they matting down the TV cut?
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"Amidala?"


I was sort of waiting to see who would crack on that first.

But seriously, it's the NEW edit of Dune. Amidala has been inserted as a deliberate create decision.

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Originally posted by: Doctor M


But seriously, it's the NEW edit of Dune. Amidala has been inserted as a deliberate create decision.


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I think we're all hip to Lucas ripping as much off of Frank Herbert as he could without getting sued.

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Watching the FanFiltration Edit and, I gotta say, I love it. This is pretty much everything I would have hoped for! I'm totally impressed!

BTW, it's nice to see a fan edit of a movie I'm so familiar with. I often miss the nuances of what tweaks have been made to a film but, in this case, I'm able to catch and appreciate all of them. Hats off to FanFiltration!

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>> But seriously, it's the NEW edit of Dune. Amidala has been inserted as a deliberate create decision.

Great. Portman can fuck up this one too.
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I guess the question needs to be asked:
Will there be a version 2 of the Fanfiltration edit?
In all likelihood the long overdue extended DVD will be a new transfer/re-edit since the original Alan Smithee version may only exist in Full Frame.
This means better quality source, and possibly completed special effects.
That's my assumption as to why the DVD has taken longer than they anticipated.
Also the Deleted Scenes include an alternate ending which MAY have the explanation of Paul marrying Irulian.

I'm just saying that a lot of what's missing that we are all looking for may be yet to come.
If half of what I'm guessing is true I'd love to see this project rebooted.

Dr. M

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Yes, I will be making a DUNE Fanfiltration version 2.0 when more footage comes out from MCA.


Fanfiltration, the maker of the Banned Bond Set and DUNE Fanfiltration Edit, has an Email.

Fanfiltration@hotmail.com


Please use that address to get info about the sets.



The sets are NOT for sale!!!


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DUNE Fanfiltration Edit is on MYSPLEEN now.

I am sorry to say that the text commentary was cancelled on the DUNE Fanfiltration Edit at the last moment. The edit was taking much too long to finish, and I wanted to get it out to the fans as soon as I could. In it's place, a video edit of alt. scenes and the original Soundtrack album has been included with the extras on disc two. As soon as MCA video puts out more DUNE out-take footage, I will be building a version 2.0 DVD set. In that future set I can include the text commentary and make other improvments fans want.

Thank you Blaksvn for getting this out the true fans, YOU ROCK!

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And now, what you have all been waiting to hear about the new DUNE DVD...

I have heard from a fan who has, in his possession, the new "Extended Edition". Here's what he has found so far...


"...First, the good news: The anamorphic widescreen transfer of the 137-minute theatrical cut has been corrected for this new DVD master. If you recall, the previous version saw about a third of the film's print incorrectly flip-flopped, which simply did not jibe with what we remembered about the film in its previous video incarnations.

In addition, the DVD contains a section of deleted scenes that runs approximately 18 minutes in length. Some of the cut scenes that were rumored to have been filmed, among them Thufir Howat's death at the end of the film, are indeed present on this new DVD. Raffaella de Laurentiis confirmed that these were taken from the film's original 4-hour version Lynch assembled.

Now, the bad news: And there's quite a bit to share with you thus far:

- The extended version is still credited to Alan Smithee.
- The DVD lists the extended version as 2.35:1. This is not the case. It is in fact a 1.85:1 format, with the production painting prologue presented in a matted 1.85:1 format that removes some of the images from the screen. This is definitely not how we remember the extended version that was first telecast in 1988.
- The edit of the extended version retains all of those "extra" scenes that were sloppily edited together for broadcast, including the "scene" of the Reverend Mother's trip to Caladan. The shortened clip involving the Harkonnens is edited in this DVD, and the clip of Thufir Howat observing the destruction of the weirding modules is cut from the extended version (conforming to the extended version's broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel a few years ago, though that clip was retained as the final scene of Part 1 of the extended telecast back in 1988 - go figure).
- The theatrical trailer that was on the previous release has been bumped from this new DVD. Thankfully, I have kept the widescreen tape of the "erroneous" transfer, which has the trailer on it - no "D'oh!" this time around!
- No audio commentary from David Lynch or anyone involved in the film's production.
- All of the deleted scenes are culled from the film's workprint and are in production audio only, with the quality of the deleted scenes in a fairly good format (better than the deleted scenes on the "Star Trek" movie DVDs, but far from equal quality with both versions of the film.
- No audio commentary from Alan Smithee, either! I wonder why nobody has ever heard from him to begin with... (Gotta love the whole running gag! Heehee!)
- If you remember, at the time of the film's release in 1984 Waldenbooks released an audiotape commentary with David Lynch and Frank Herbert on translating "Dune" to film. I clearly remember getting this tape, but for the life of me I never had sense to keep it. This would have made for a great audio commentary addition on the DVD."

So the door is definitely open to do yet another fan-made extended cut of DUNE in the future. Questions, class?

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.DUNE: FanFiltration Edit Version 2.0: is in the works, but I would love to see other edits done.

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I knew they would drop the ball on the "official extended edition". Damn them I say, the great Frank Herbert deserves better, and so do the fans of dune.

I can only hope that Brian Herbert And Kevin J. Anderson along with the herbert estate can Make a " New" big screen version of dune close to frank's orginal without taken too many liberties. Special Effects have come a long enough way to do some of the scenes from the books back in the day that would have been too expensive.

Yes I can Remember when Dune was originally released and at the time it was lauded as one of the most expensive films ever made up until that point.

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I remember they handed out fliers to people going into the threater. There was information front and back on characters, planets, and the politics going on between them.

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The problem as I understand it is that David Lynch will not let go of the movie rights. As a result the SciFi channel could ONLY make a TV version.
Which is damn ironic since he won't fix his version (and I doubt he plans to remake it).

The problems of the SciFi version not with standing, they still produced a more faithful imagining of the books. It's a shame they didn't do a bit better (that goes double for Children of Dune).

I'll still watch any other books they want to adapt though...

Dr. M

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Originally posted by: hiphats
- The DVD lists the extended version as 2.35:1. This is not the case. It is in fact a 1.85:1 format, with the production painting prologue presented in a matted 1.85:1 format that removes some of the images from the screen. This is definitely not how we remember the extended version that was first telecast in 1988.


This review says otherwise.

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yOUR RIGHT REV...

Rock on, I srill think your version will be the best of the two.

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I have received the new dvd, if anyone has any questions or wishes me to post screen captures let me know. Right now just a few quick comments.

Firstly, both prints ARE in fact in 2.35:1. They both look great, the colors are rich and the pictures are sharp, the sound mix sounds great. However, the production painting prologue IS matted (but not in 1.85:1, matted in 2.25:1). Also the "blue within blue eyes" have not been added in the added scenes. I haven't actually watched either film yet so I can't get more detailed then that for now.

I have seen 2 of the featurettes, very cool and in depth, intervies while showing cool production drawing and effects tests and production outtakes. Haven't seen the deleted scenes yet.

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Question:

Are the deleted scenes 2.25:1 format too?

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Yes they are, there's an extended intro, and an extended end scenes (and a couple other scenes). During the intro for the deleted scenes, you see snippits and clips from other out take or deleted scenes that you do not see in full, so there is clearly a lot more Dune footage (regarless of how complete it is) that is out there, at least one gets that impression.

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I'd love some screencaps of the extended version and the deleted scenes. I'd also like if you could specifically cap some of the intro to the extended version, I want to see how bad the matted paintings look.

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