WTF Happened to David Lynch’s Dune?

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at TROUBLED movie productions! Box-office smashes and flops, fan-favorites or creative failures, these movies endured numerous problems behind-the-scenes.

In the 1980s when studios were all desperately chasing “the next Star Wars, filmmaker David Lynch tackled a big-screen version of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune. Lynch’s vision for the production was ambitious, uniquely weird, and ultimately compromised by a truncated edit, leading to audience bewilderment and box office failure. Let’s swallow some Spice and find out “WTF Happened to Dune!”