Oscar Isaac and Rebecca Ferguson on Dune and Why They Love Denis Villeneuve

With director Denis Villeneuve s Dune now playing in select countries around the world and opening in North America this weekend, I recently got to speak with Oscar Isaac and Rebecca Ferguson about making the incredible movie. During the interview, Isaac and Ferguson talked about how author Frank Herbert was ahead of his time, the things they kept wanting to tell their friends and family about the film, why they loved working with Villeneuve, what people would be surprised to learn about the making of Dune, and more. Dune is based on the hugely influential scifi novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. In the film, we follow Timothée Chalamet s Paul Atreides, whose family inherits custody over the planet Arrakis (or the titular Dune ), an unforgiving desert world that also hosts the only source of something known as melange, or spice, the most valuable material in the known universe. Meanwhile, a plot is brewing against the Atreides from a rival family known as the