Frank Herbert's Dune: Special Edition

[Moviebuff_Mike]

We've also heard that Artisan Entertainment will finally release their Frank Herbert's Dune: Special Edition DVD on April 23rd (SRP $26.98). NO ONE is looking forward to this as much as I am, believe me! The 3-disc set will feature a director's cut with over 30 minutes of new footage, audio commentaries by Frank Herbert (since he's dead, perhaps using archived interviews?), director John Harrison and star William Hurt, a Science Fiction Round Table Discussion documentary with prominent writers, directors and scientists including John Harrison, Richard Dreyfuss, Salman Rushdie, George Lucas, Alexa Poryas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Crichton, Charles Elachi, William Gibson and Arthur C. Clarke, the Defining Messiah documentary with religious scholars of all faiths, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN VIDEO (yeah!) and dual Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 soundtracks.

[Common Sense Man]

I have seen a Directors cut of Dune and it blew. If this is the same cut with the added story board animation at the head and no soundtrack it would not be worth it.

The one I saw had extra scenes added but they did not remaster the soundtrack so they simply dumped the entire soundtrack and filled with generic crap so you would not notice the music change when the new scenes where added.

I love Dune and would love to see them remaster it in the proper way with the extra footage added with remastered sound.

Is this what they are doing, if they are I may be interested.

Out............