Max Evry, the writer of “A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral Historical past,” has discovered a half-written script for the sequel, he revealed in WIRED on Wednesday.
Regardless of minor cult standing, it is no secret that many felt Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune missed the mark. However earlier than its launch and subsequent essential panning and flop on the field workplace, there was a plan to show Lynch’s tackle Frank Herbert’s area opera into a significant film franchise.
Proof for this mysterious half-script has been floating round since 1984, when Frank Herbert revealed that he was working with and advising the writer-director on a script for the sequel in an interview with Prevue Journal. Since then, little bits of knowledge have come out in regards to the script, together with in Lynch’s guide, “Lynch on Lynch” in 1997, the place he wrote, “I wrote half a script for the second Dune. I actually bought into it as a result of it wasn’t a giant story.” However till final 12 months, this script by no means noticed the sunshine of day.
Evry unearthed the script in July of final 12 months whereas engaged on his guide, discovering it in Frank Herbert’s archives at California State College, Fullerton. Within the article for WIRED about this discover, Evry sang the script’s praises, saying, “He additionally cracked a technique to inform the complicated story of Herbert’s 1969 novel Dune Messiah, simply the least cinematic guide within the sequence.”
“It might ring of sacrilege to some, however Lynch’s Dune II would have bested Herbert’s guide — and been one hell of a film,” he added.
He does not focus on precisely how Lynch manages to bypass these restraints, however it begs the query: What if Lynch’s Dune did not battle on the field workplace?
It is unlikely that the script will likely be extensively accessible exterior of UC Fullerton’s archives, and in response to Evry, David Lynch did not provide a lot in the way in which of a touch upon the matter.
For extra Dune information, take a look at the most recent trailer for Dune: Half 2.