![]() “When an audience hears acoustic sound, there’s a subconscious box that gets checked that says, this is real,” Mangini said. ![]() To that end, Green and Mangini made an early expedition into Death Valley to collect natural noises that could be used later for the film’s sonic palette. “We’re not putting you in a sci-fi movie, we’re putting you in a documentary about people on Arrakis.” “But it was very much Denis’s vision that this movie should feel every bit as familiar as certain areas of planet Earth,” Green said. This wasn’t meant to provoke any sea gulls Mangini and Green wanted to demonstrate the sound-gathering techniques they used to enliven Arrakis, the desert planet where the “Dune” hero Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) discovers his destiny. ![]() We were at Zuma Beach on the kind of warm March afternoon that New York readers would surely prefer I not dwell on, and Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated sound editors Mark Mangini and Theo Green were nearby, pouring cereal into the sand. “I’m learning today there were Rice Krispies in ‘Dune,’” he said. ![]() ![]() The first installment came out in October and the second one will begin shooting later this year, so if there’s anything you want to know about the inner workings of “Dune,” Villeneuve is the man to ask.īut last week in Malibu, Calif., as he regarded a blue cereal box with evident amusement, Villeneuve admitted that one key detail had eluded him until now. The French Canadian filmmaker grew up obsessed with Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel and has spent the last few years of his life adapting that 1965 book into a budding film franchise. “Dune” is in the details, and Denis Villeneuve knows nearly all of them. ![]()
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