Cinematographer Greig Fraser Looks Back on His Love for ‘Dune’

Greig Fraser went into “Dune” knowing the size of the story and its reputation.

Much like the planet Arrakis, “Dune” hadn’t yet been conquered on film.

Frank Herbert’s world of intergalactic ambitions, byzantine politics, and religious plots within plots has such epic scope that adaptations have so often been the graveyard of empires.

Or at least of Dino De Laurentiis.

That Denis Villeneuve called his sci-fi epic “Dune: Part 1” shows just how far his ambitions reached and the film’s cinematography is a huge part of the reason why that confidence has paid off with a sequel order from Legendary and Warner Bros.

Hearing Fraser talk about his and Villeneuve’s approach to constructing the world of “Dune” is to get as close as possible to a filmbook crash course in creating an immersive world on screen.Fraser and Villeneuve had the whole of an IMAX canvas and

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