RED CARPET OF THE MOVIE DUNE:PART 2

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00:00All right, you all ready?

00:01One, two, three.

00:04Good evening.

00:15This is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News.

00:17I'm here for the Middle Eastern premiere of Dune Part 2.

00:21And right now on the red carpet, we

00:22had director Denny Villeneuve and, of course,

00:25stars Josh Brolin and Dave Bautista.

00:28They were amazing.

00:29As they walked down the red carpet,

00:31they were talking about all the experiences

00:33that they had in Abu Dhabi.

00:34In fact, we had the director telling us,

00:37filming is like being in a submarine.

00:41He has no clue what happens to it.

00:42But we can vouch that Dune was a huge success

00:45because it was partly filmed in Abu Dhabi.

00:48So life has indeed come full circle for the cast

00:51and crew of Dune Part 2.

00:52Nearly 30 days were spent in Abu Dhabi.

00:55They were shooting significant portions of the movie

00:58in the UAE capital.

01:00So stay tuned for all the details.

01:02Hi, Josh.

01:03How are you doing?

01:03I'm good.

01:04I'm good.

01:04Did you expect Dune to be such a big phenomenon?

01:07It's a cultural touchstone now.

01:08No, I didn't.

01:10And you know, we sit here and you do the work.

01:12And you watch Denny going through two years of editing

01:14and Hans with his music and Greg.

01:18And then you watch people watch the movie.

01:20And it's very special.

01:21I've been on the opposite end, too, where the movie comes

01:24and they go, meh, it's good.

01:25No, people are really responding viscerally to this.

01:29I think it's great.

01:30Amazing.

01:30You've done a fantastic job.

01:33How do you stay in the zone of Dune,

01:34like filming under such physical struggles?

01:38How are you not disenchanted by it?

01:40Oh, OK.

01:41I understand.

01:41Yes.

01:42I appreciate it.

01:45It's a, the desert and me is a love affair.

01:50It's an unconditional love.

01:52It's brutal, but there's something

01:54that nourished my soul deeply.

01:56So I'm not disenchanted.

02:00I love it.

02:00Thank you so much.

02:01It's very hot, though.

02:02We love it.

02:02I've been here 17 years.

02:04It's amazing.

02:04Yeah.

02:05It's good for inspiration.

02:06Yes.

02:07Hi, Dave.

02:07Thank you for it.

02:08How are you?

02:09I'm very well.

02:09Yes, that is a microphone.

02:12Did you expect Dune to be such a spectacular sci-fi,

02:15cultural touchstone?

02:17Yes.

02:19Really?

02:19Of course I did, yeah.

02:21Of course.

02:22Obviously, I did the first one.

02:23But speaking with Denny and knowing

02:25how passionate he was about the books growing up,

02:29and this was his dream, I knew it was going to be amazing.

02:31I knew it was going to be epic, yeah.

02:32Right.

02:33And Abu Dhabi, it's your first time, I know, so.

02:34It's my first time here, yeah.

02:35I think a lot of people assume that because I

02:37was in desert scenes that I actually

02:38got to shoot in the desert.

02:39But I know I never did.

02:40Oh, perhaps Dune 3?

02:41I'm really resentful, a little resentful about it.

02:45But Dune 3, inshallah, I hope you're back here filming.

02:48I hope, yeah.

02:49I hope.

02:49That's the dream.

02:52It's a huge team, not only about CMA,

02:55not only about film commission, it's

02:56about Abu Dhabi, who are contributed

02:59huge in this event.

03:01Part one, we have only five days of shooting in Abu Dhabi.

03:06Part two, we have one month, OK?

03:09So it's proving that the staff and the production crew

03:15and the leaders of the film loves Abu Dhabi.

03:20And proving how the support from Abu Dhabi film commission,

03:24CMA, Abu Dhabi stakeholders, all the support

03:28come to them in the five days.

03:30So they come back and say that we

03:32want to expand our schedule in Abu Dhabi

03:35to make it like one month.

03:36And as you said, part two, when you see the movie,

03:39and I believe you saw it, this is like we

03:43are proud to have Jordan in it and other Arab countries.

03:47However, Abu Dhabi, like the shooting days was huge.

03:52Yeah, 27 days from what I remember.

03:54Leva Desert, of course.

03:55Exactly.

03:55It was about five, and now we're to around nearly a month,

03:5927 days.

04:00And I think it wasn't really hard to convince the director.

04:04I mean, seriously, he fell in love.

04:06And even for me, from Abu Dhabi, I go to the desert a lot.

04:11Every time I go, I still fall in love with it.

04:13It's just a beautiful location.

04:16We've seen in the past, many directors

04:19decided to film in Leva Desert because of how spectacular it

04:22is.

04:23Right.

04:23So yeah, this time, we had a good one month of shoot,

04:28and much more interesting solutions

04:31that we had to come to facilitate and support

04:33the production, talking about needing more accommodation.

04:37So we had to actually literally, with the local production

04:40company, Epic Films, build a village in the desert,

04:45fully serviced, to service the crew.

04:49About 150, it has about 150 crew members.

04:53And then other than that, working

04:54with our stakeholders and the partnerships

04:59that we have with the government entities,

05:01there was a solution that needed to be

05:03happened to build the infrastructure for all these

05:05because we filmed around 20 different locations

05:08across the desert.

05:09And we're in the desert, so moving

05:12around these locations is not going to be that easy.

05:15Right.

05:15And it is literally in the middle of the desert.

05:18So the solution was that the road,

05:2230 kilometer road in the desert, so

05:25that it can ease the movement of the crew

05:29around the different locations, and also

05:31be able to even carry the heavyweight filming equipment

05:36and move them from one place to another.

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