It was my Goth Star Wars. Prior to Dune , David Lynch had been celebrated for directing two movies: the experimental waking nightmare Eraserhead and the heartbreaking period flick The Elephant Man .

Star Wars has the Jedi Mind Trick, ... Incidentally, Liet-Kynes is played by Max Von Sydow in David Lynch's Dune, who also appears in The Force Awakens. Dune has Princess Alia, ...

But in an era where Star Wars and Star Trek movies reigned supreme, ... It takes Lynch’s Dune just under 90 minutes to reach the point in the story where Villeneuve’s first Dune movie ended.

Here’s how Star Wars and Dune stack up, ... Based on a 60s novel by Frank Herbert and adapted into a 1984 film directed by David Lynch, Dune also tells a tale of intergalactic intrigue.

David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune had the misfortune of following the original Star Wars trilogy to theaters, and audiences weren't willing to embrace it at that time.

Spice in Dune and Star Wars. Spice is a popular commodity in both universes. In Star Wars, the mines of Kessel contain loads of “spice,” which is a dangerous drug.

Dune, the new star-studded epic from Denis Villeneuve, is getting positive reviews and praise for its visual interpretation of Frank Herbert's science fiction classic. Before the author died from ...

How 'Dune' and 'Star Wars' are more closely related than anyone realizes. By Jordan Maison • 10/21/21 11:25am. What if Dune and Star Wars take place in the same universe? WB/Observer.

Apparently, tackling ’Dune’ as ’Star Wars kids’ forced Villeneuve and his team to take on the "fun challenge" of finding their own identity.

'Star Wars' Day is sign of franchise's mass appeal. It owes a lot to Frank Herbert's 'Dune' 'Star Wars' appeared to borrow so many ideas from the Dune novels, that when 'The New Hope' was first ...

That went a long way toward making Dune seem inferior to Star Wars movies despite having a relatively high $40 million to $42 million budget. If you just want to enjoy the story, the two modern ...