The Sets and Costumes Were Almost Entirely New
“Dune: Part Two” picks up right where its predecessor leaves off, following many of the same characters in the same locations as they complete their story. But rather than rest on his laurels and re-use sets and costumes from the first film, Denis Villeneuve pushed his team to build everything from scratch in order to give audiences a fresh experience and improve on the original.
“The whole vocabulary of the movie had been defined in ‘Part One,’” Villeneuve said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Now knowing that vocabulary, it was for us to expand and make sure that there will always be a feeling of novelty for the audience that they will never feel like they had to wear that old cold swimsuit. We wanted them to have a feeling of discovery, of wonder. And we didn’t use any sets that were made for ‘Part One.’ We redesigned completely the movie in the desert. We made sure that we were not going back in the same environment. When you look at both movies back to back, ‘Part Two’ is entirely new. Maybe the only thing that comes back is the ornithopters. But even then, Patrice upgraded and created new vehicles to make sure that there will always be that feeling that you’re watching a new film and not the extensions of the old one.”