“They put a cap on it out there, if it gets too hot. “The shooting temperature was sometimes 120 degrees,” he said. To make matters worst, the cast is adorned in “stillsuits,” which Vanity Fair describes as “thick, rubbery armor.” While they may look quite cool and badass on the big screen, they were not exactly designed with the actor’s comfort in mind. “I remember going out of my room at 2 a.m., and it being probably 100 degrees,” Chalamet said. To mimic the otherworldly environment, certain scenes were filmed in remote regions in the United Arab Emirates, where temperatures could reach the triple digits. But deep in regions across the Middle East, the film crew attempted to transport audiences to the far off galactic world of Arrakis. The dense and multi-layered 1965 novel, written by Frank Herbert, is considered both an iconic contribution to 20th century literature and a notoriously tricky property to adapt read. That it comes in the form of a blockbuster adaptation of arguably the most iconic science-fiction novel of all time is just a bonus.Ĭhalamet will lead a deep bench of talented actors-which includes Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Jason Momoa, Zendaya and more-in Villeneuve’s two-picture Dune adaptation for Warner Bros. Naturally, a collaboration between the two was sure to be big news.
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Thanks to a series of gripping and uniquely delivered films like Sicario, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has catapulted himself into the upper echelon of Hollywood directors. Thanks to an Academy Award nomination for 2017’s tender Call Me by Your Name and a string of impressive follow-up performances, 24-year-old Timothée Chalamet has quickly become a must-watch actor.
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