2022-01-10

When I was making Dune, the thing I needed to get right was the right incarnation for the sandworm. It was a very long process. We worked with several designers to explore its shape. We made hundreds of drawings trying to find very precise qualities for the sandworm. We had long discussions about what we were looking for. It was a process that took about a year. I'm very proud of how it looks. The idea was to make sure that the sandworm would be as realistic as possible, that it would be totally logical that such a beast would come from that kind of environment. Like Frank Herbert wrote in his book, it had to be inspired by nature. So when I was thinking about the special effects of Dune, I still wanted to approach it by embracing and respecting the laws of Nature.