Dune just fine, thanks for asking.

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm a huge fan of that film.

That's very reassuring to hear. I thought I was the only one here who was!

srsly, I'm the furthest thing from a David Lynch fan (most of his works are completely incomprehensible to me) but I totally loved his Dune adaptation. I'm sad that he has pretty much disowned it and doesn't like talking about it. But that's his prerogative.

"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."

 

[Nightowl1701]

Earlier this year, Lynch was doing an interview with AVClub about his 4K restoration of Inland Empire and, without prompting and to their surprise, started talking about revisiting Dune. He doesn't expect it to happen, still:

"I always say, and it’s true, that with Dune, I sold out before I finished. It’s not like there’s a bunch of gold in the vaults waiting to be cut and put back together. It’s like, early on I knew what Dino [de Laurentiis] wanted and what I could get away with and what I couldn’t. And so I started selling out, and it’s a sad, sad, pathetic, ridiculous story. But I would like to see what is there. I can’t remember, that’s the weird thing [laughs]. I can’t remember. And so it might be interesting—there could be something there. But I don’t think it’s a silk purse. I know it’s a sow’s ear."

 

[Tuskin38]

Oh gee, really? You mean for the absolute first time in the history of the Universe there's been more than one thread on the same subject? Oh gracious me al mighty! What are we going to do?!?!? This means the world will end tomorrow? Say good-bye to all you know and love!

I mean, there is a pinned thread at the top of the forum that says to consolidate threads.

 

[Marc]

I mean, there is a pinned thread at the top of the forum that says to consolidate threads.

but that dates back to when the board was struggling with hardware and software issues and no longer really applies.

 

[Set Harth]

Earlier this year, Lynch was doing an interview with AVClub about his 4K restoration of Inland Empire and, without prompting and to their surprise, started talking about revisiting Dune. He doesn't expect it to happen, still:

"I always say, and it’s true, that with Dune, I sold out before I finished. It’s not like there’s a bunch of gold in the vaults waiting to be cut and put back together. It’s like, early on I knew what Dino [de Laurentiis] wanted and what I could get away with and what I couldn’t. And so I started selling out, and it’s a sad, sad, pathetic, ridiculous story. But I would like to see what is there. I can’t remember, that’s the weird thing [laughs]. I can’t remember. And so it might be interesting—there could be something there. But I don’t think it’s a silk purse. I know it’s a sow’s ear."

I think about the most you could do with it would be to clean up the extended version.

 

[Nightowl1701]

I think about the most you could do with it would be to clean up the extended version.

Pretty much. Taking all available footage into account, there’s maybe 5-10 more minutes of missing scenes in the vault; mostly odds and ends that wouldn’t really add anything to the story, and maybe 3-4 Lynchian freak out moments (inc. an actual on-set injury, a dissection scene, and the original birth of Alia scene where he tried to outdo 2001’s Starchild in sheer WTF)

 

[Set Harth]

There's this deleted scene where someone offscreen is speaking, presumably it's meant to be a Fremen priest, and it sounds kind of like Dennis Hopper.

 

[Marc]

Pretty much. Taking all available footage into account, there’s maybe 5-10 more minutes of missing scenes in the vault; mostly odds and ends that wouldn’t really add anything to the story, and maybe 3-4 Lynchian freak out moments (inc. an actual on-set injury, a dissection scene, and the original birth of Alia scene where he tried to outdo 2001’s Starchild in sheer WTF)

Can think of two scenes from a fan edit of Lynch's Dune that were filmed and sort of fill in background but don't add anything to story - drowning a sandworn to make the the water of life and extracting the water after Paul kills Jamis.

Even Herbert didn't delve into those scenes.

 

[Reverend]

Can think of two scenes from a fan edit of Lynch's Dune that were filmed and sort of fill in background but don't add anything to story - drowning a sandworn to make the the water of life and extracting the water after Paul kills Jamis.

Even Herbert didn't delve into those scenes.

That's just the nature of adaptation from one medium to another. In the novel, Herbert was able to describe or allude to those bits of world building in the abstract, through prose and internal monologue. A movie doesn't have that option, so it's a choice between have it described in dialogue, actually show it in action, or of course just leave it out entierly. Indeed it's exactly this dilemma that led to Lynch leaning to hard into voice-over internal monologues. There were things that just can't be blurted out loud in the narrative, and he felt like there wasn't a good way to show those concepts. At least not on top of everything else he was choosing to show. It's all really comes down to picking ones' battles.

Given the scale of the production, it's not surprising that they ended up with so much excess material. When you're spending that kind of money on sets, costumes and especially location shooting, it's not uncommon for a certain kind of Director to get footage of everything they possibly can, without really knowing until the edit if it's even needed.