⚔️ The Secret Behind ‘Dune 2’s Massive Scale

One of the most incredible things about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies is how immense everything looks. Each brutalist building feels like an eighth wonder of the world looming over the minuscule masses of people. The desert of Arrakis stretches on endlessly, making our hero Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) seem like a speck of sand. And then there are the sandworms, whose gaping mouths seem gigantic enough to swallow a small city (or at least a very large spice harvester).

That scale is what makes Dune: Part Two such a feat of immersive blockbuster filmmaking, and it couldn’t be achieved without the talents of cinematographer Greig Fraser, who also worked on Part One. Fraser, whose resume includes blockbuster spectacles like Rogue One, The Creator, and The Batman, knows something about scale. His secret to making everything feel so massive? “The trick is people,” Fraser tells Inverse.

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