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The same was done to the 1984 Dune movie. It was originally 4 hours, then cut down to 2.
by madengr 10y ago
The same was done to the 1984 Dune movie. It was originally 4 hours, then cut down to 2.
- rodgerd 10y agoThere was never a four hour version. It doesn't exist - there's a version with a bunch of filmed material and storyboards of what might have been filmed, but that's it.
- xsmasher 10y agoThat version with commercial breaks is almost four hours, which probably feeds the rumors. I've seen that version on television.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoNo. There are lots of stories about various very long versions of Dune. The most common story that is Lynch had a 6-hour version and that the studio forced him down to 2. It's a myth. The theatrical cut is the only cut Lynch did.
- dood 10y agoIIRC Lynch did not have final cut on Dune, and was so bitter about it he never made a film he wasn't contractually allowed to edit himself again. If you look at the deleted scenes, they show Lynch was going for a very different tone to the finished product.
- duskwuff 10y agoThe "6-hour version of Dune" is probably confusing the Lynch treatment with Jodorowsky's attempt at a Dune film -- which was never filmed (the script wasn't even finished!), but whose production was documented in the 2013 Jodorowsky's Dune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky's_Dune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky's_Dune It may also be confusing Lynch's film with the 2000 Sci-Fi miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, which totalled roughly 5 hours across three episodes.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoPossibly, but the rumours of a 6-hour and even longer cuts go back years. I remember discussing this way back in the late 1990s. It's a very persistent rumour.
- duskwuff 10y agoThe attempted Jodorowsky treatment was in the 1970s. The documentary film was more recent, but people certainly would have heard about it at the time.