Dune's Sharon Duncan Brewster on Frank Herbert Writing and Denis Villeneuve
With directorDenis Villeneuve’sDunenow playing around the world and streaming for free on HBO Max, I recently got to speak withSharon Duncan Brewsterabout making the incredible movie. As most of you know,Duneis based on the hugely influential sci-fi novel of the same name byFrank Herbert. In the film, we followTimothée Chalamet’sPaul Atreides, whose family inherits custody over the planet Arrakis (or the titular “Dune”), an unforgiving desert world that also hosts the only source of something known as melange, or “spice,” the most valuable material in the known universe....