"What The Heck Is That": Dune 2's Black & White Planet Initially Scared Warner Bros.

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Though one of the more visually standout moments in the sequel, cinematographer Greig Fraser reveals that Dune: Part Two's black and white planet initially scared Warner Bros. Adapting the second half of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic novel, the movie introduced the ruthless Harkonnen warrior Feyd-Rautha with a sequence set on his home planet of Giede Prime, in which he's seen battling Roger Yuan's Lieutenant Lanville in a gladiator arena. Unlike the rest of the movie, Fraser and director Denis Villeneuve set the entire sequence in black-and-white, giving a striking introduction to Feyd-Rautha in the sequel.
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"What The Heck Is That": Dune 2's Black & White Planet Initially Scared Warner Bros.

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