ORIGINAL DESIGN PLANS FROM DAVID LYNCH’S DUNE
The present lot includes an array of 11 interior, exterior, and prop design plans from the painstaking process of bringing Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel to life, featuring incredible designs for weaponry, Harkonnen and Atreides ships, Arrakeen interiors, the interior of the Emperor’s tent, and others.
At the height of the David Lynch production, 30 draftsmen were employed to convert Production Designer Tony Masters’ original paintings into blueprints for the film sets.
“It’s the biggest I’ve ever worked on because we’ve been able to do things in a very large scale here in Mexico that we wouldn’t have been able to do anywhere else.”
The set of the Emperor’s Palace, for example, featured 24,000 decorative stalactites. More than one thousand workers added these and other incredible details to 76 sets in total. As a New York Times article pointed out in 1983, “The movie’s real stars – almost all of them Academy Award winners – are the production designers, matte painters, and special effects artists who will remain at Churubusco long after the actors have left” (“The World of ‘Dune’ is Filmed in Mexico” by Aljean Harmetz, Sept. 4, 1983). The ‘Dune’ sets were “intricate warrens of passageways and corridors.”
The design plans included in this lot provide the very blueprints bringing Lynch and Masters’ vision to life.
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