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Why ‘Dune’ Was Intentionally Shot In The Summer In A Scorching Hot Desert · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Director Danie Villanov's upcoming
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  Speaker 1: sci fi epic Dune takes place largely on a desert planet.
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  Speaker 1: Like its name suggests, he always prefers to shoot on
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  Speaker 1: real locations rather than on a green screen because to him,
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  Speaker 1: it simply looks better most of the time. For that reason,
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  Speaker 1: they traveled all the way to the extreme desert outside
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  Speaker 1: the city of Abu Dhabi in the u a E.
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  Speaker 1: It's a harsh environment, but they consciously chose to make
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  Speaker 1: it even more challenging by shooting there in the dead
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  Speaker 1: of summer when it's like over a hundred degrees, and
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  Speaker 1: the reason goes down to his vision for the film.
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  Speaker 1: Summer in the U A features a great tempt to
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  Speaker 1: the sky and more haze, which is precisely how he
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  Speaker 1: imagined it. To ensure the cast and the crew was safe,
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  Speaker 1: the production was forced to only shoot in the morning
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  Speaker 1: in late afternoon, and massive air condition tents were built,
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  Speaker 1: but the struggle was worth it for the director, telling
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  Speaker 1: the U A Film Commission quote, what I found is unmatchable.
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  Speaker 1: There's a scale to the dunes and the desert in
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  Speaker 1: a variety of shapes, and we thought that was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: mesmerizing doing Hits theaters and HBO Max October. That's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.