Hans Zimmer is ground zero for that specific thing. The dramatic crumps and thumps too. I was a little surprised by how mainstream the sound design of the trailer was – there’s even a ka-shing! noise when the revend mother whips out the poison needle.
But then that’s what Jodorowsky’s talking about, isn’t it, when he says it’s all good but it’s also got to be a blockbuster and that’s an industrial product with specifications.
I would bet that the thing that’s going to disappoint people is what’s not there and the streamlining of everything. Maybe no emperor, no Irulan. Maybe no guild navigator. People keep saying “I guess Feyd turns up in part 2” but it’s just as likely they rolled the character into Beast—who is just ‘Beast’ now, not “Glossu Rabban-Harkonnen, Count of Lankiveil, The Beast and Mudir Nahya of Arrakis” or whatever is in the book.
You’ll see only elements of the Dune universe you absolutely need to to tell the “Atreides go to Dune and die there, but Paul is special” story. But that’s fine from a moviemaking perspective: people will actually enjoy the action adventure of that, and get into the broader universe when they go online and talk about it. And get more of that in the (already filmed) part 2.
I have an open bet with someone here from a couple of years ago that the movie wouldn’t contain the phrase “Bene Gesserit” in dialog. Just “The Sisterhood” or “witches” or whatever. Likewise ‘Kwizatz haderach’. Dune the book is full of mumbo jumbo that is mercilessly confusing as dialog. This sank Lynch-Dune from the outset. Even if I lose the bet specifically I’m absolutely sure I’ll win it generally.
