“I think if we could’ve seen David Lynch’s version, it would have been marvelous,” Brick said. Lynch himself has basically disowned this feature, and Brick and Vance can see where he’s coming from. “They took it out of his hands and they cut it, and they did the worst thing possible, which is that voiceover stuff,” Vance said. The glossary has been so useful that Brian told Brick that he was “a pillar of the Dune universe,” a compliment if there ever was one.ĭune has been around since the ’60s, but the only big screen version to actually make it to theaters was David Lynch’s 1984 version, with Kyle MacLachlan as Dune.
“ had recordings that his father had made…We used those as a guide.” They’re up to about 1,900 now. “We started with the 500 words in the original volume,” Brick explained. He told us about how he got in touch with Frank Herbert’s son Brian early in the process, and how they “just hit it off.” Over time, he even created the Dune phonetic glossary, an index of all the made-up words in the series and how to pronounce them correctly. Vance and Brick worked together on several of Frank Herbert’s original six Dune books, but for the prequels and sequels, Brick has flown pretty much solo, becoming the go-to guy whenever Macmillan Audio wants to record another installment of the saga.Īnd Brick sounds just fine with that, considering that Dune is one of his favorite series of all time. Harper Audio is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.Scott Brick is “a pillar of the Dune universe” It is a violation of United States and international copyright laws to copy these recordings in any other way.
HarperCollins is the copyright owner of the recordings on HarperAudio! and has consented to a limited distribution of HarperAudio! as an 8 khz computer sound file on Internet Town Hall. Herbert’s "Dune" was published in 1965, and was followed by four other books set on this inhospitable planet. Herbert had a career as a newspaperman before turning his hand to science fiction. These influential books are set on an imaginary world with a desert climate and a feudal society. Science fiction writer Frank Herbert reading excerpts from his "Dune" series. To: "Announcements" "Internet Multicasting Service" Internet Multicasting Service
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