A Masterpiece in Disarray by Max Evry

Author:Max Evry [Evry, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 1984 Publishing
Published: 2023-08-15T13:30:02+00:00

Books

As reported by Knight Ridder on December 15, 1984:

Bookstores began stocking up on Dune items more than a month ago, and representatives for a half-dozen stores in Philadelphia and New York say business has been fairly brisk. Among the items for sale are reissues of all five Dune books, including a 1.4-million-copy special edition of the original book with a redesigned cover tied in to the movie’s poster art. For those who feel lost in the desert, Willis E. McNelly has published a Dune Encyclopedia, purporting to contain biographies of all of the book’s characters and various tidbits of Dune lore. Younger readers who may not be able to slosh through Herbert’s voluminous tomes can satisfy themselves with The Dune Storybook, which capsulizes the story and includes dozens of color stills from the film. A Dune Activity Book also has been released for very young fans, as have The Dune Cut Out Activity Book, The Dune Pop-Up Panorama Book, The Dune Coloring Book, The Dune Coloring & Activity Book, and Dune Puzzles, Games, Mazes and Activities. Marvel Comics is releasing Dune: The Official Comic Book. Masters’ production design drawings also have been collected and published as The Art of Dune, a volume that contains Lynch’s complete screenplay. Los Angeles–based writer Ed Naha has published a series of on-set interviews with the film’s principals under the title The Making of Dune. If the movie flops, it’ll make quite a bonfire.

Sadly, The Art of Dune was canceled before publication, although Giles Masters has told me that he still has thousands of his father’s drawings in storage and hopes to collect them in a volume someday.

On the plus side, Herbert’s original book got a big boost, selling roughly 250,000 copies during the first two weeks of the film’s US release.

Marvel Comic Book

Originally published by Marvel Comics on December 4, 1984, as a magazine-format Marvel Super Special, the 68-page comic book adaptation of David Lynch’s Dune hailed from writer Ralph Macchio (no relation to the Karate Kid actor of the same name) and artist Bill Sienkiewicz (whose distinctive artistic style feels like the bastard child of Gustav Klimt and Ralph Steadman).

There are many differences between the theatrical cut of the film and the comic book, such as the way shields are depicted. In the film, they are blocky, whereas in the book, it’s more of a sparkly forcefield not dissimilar to the ones in Villeneuve’s film. There are also deleted sequences like Rabban in the bath or Thufir’s death scene. In many cases, scenes are reimagined whole cloth simply because Sienkiewicz had no reference stills to base the panels on.

Years earlier, the Marvel comic book adaptation of Star Wars written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Howard Chaykin had played a role in building up buzz for that film, with the first issue being released on April 12, 1977, over a month before 20th Century Fox’s May 25 movie release date. Contrary to this, Marvel’s Dune didn’t release its three-issue serialization for comic book

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