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Villeneuve · 2021 · Part One
Dune
The film made one desert from two countries and an ocean world from a Norwegian coast. The crew gathered sand in Wadi Rum to match the dunes of Liwa. Pictured: a Liwa dune, 2017.
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Caladan
Grey water, Norwegian coast
The Atreides home world was shot on the Stad peninsula and at Kinn. Pick a place.
Stad peninsula, Vestland, Norway
Stadlandet
The Norwegian Film Commission lists Stadlandet, in Vestland, among the Norwegian locations for Dune.
Its page credits the windswept ground and natural light at Stadlandet, which needed minimal visual doubling.
Wikipedia names Stadlandet as the double for Caladan, the Atreides ocean home world.
The crew reached Norway in August 2019 for the last segment of principal photography, then came back in the autumn for aerial footage.
A wild peninsula of public roads, beaches and cliffs on the Norwegian west coast. The sources name the area, not a single camera point.
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Thump
Match the sand
The Cinemaholic reports that the crew collected sand at Wadi Rum to match the colour of the sand at Liwa. Drive the stake to stir the Jordan sample towards the Emirates swatch.
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Sample · Wadi Rum
0 of 8 thumps
The pot holds Wadi Rum red. Thump the stake to stir in Liwa sand.
Target · Liwa
Two deserts, still apart.
Eight thumps bring the sample to the colour of the Liwa dunes.
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The stage
Three planets under one roof
The practical interior sets for the three planets, Caladan among them, were built on the studio’s soundstages and backlots.
ORIGO Studios lists Dune as a 2019 production it serviced, with Warner Bros. Pictures among the clients it names. The studio has 11 stages, nine soundstages and two VFX or multimedia stages, and a ten-acre backlot.
Wikipedia gives principal photography as 18 March to 26 July 2019, beginning at ORIGO Studios. Parts of the Arrakeen invasion, with extras and practical explosions, were shot on Budapest backlots, Wikipedia says.
Ornithopter interiors were filmed on hilltops outside Budapest, on a 25-foot sand-coloured ramp that ran 360 degrees round a large gimbal, so the crew could use sunlight.
More filming took place in Budapest by August 2020, Wikipedia says. Hungary’s 30 per cent tax rebate helped the production, The Cinemaholic says.
A working studio. The sources give no tour or public access, so treat it as closed to visitors.
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Setting out
Go and find the sand
Norway, Jordan, the Emirates and Hungary are four separate trips. Myresanden’s pin is the nearby hamlet of Drage, and Liwa’s is the district; the sources name no exact camera points. The Budapest studio is a working lot and takes no visitors on the sources read.
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Where it is now
6 places in Norway, Jordan, the Emirates and Hungary.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A wild peninsula of public roads, beaches and cliffs on the Norwegian west coast. The sources name the area, not a single camera point.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A beach on the Stad coast, south of the hamlet of Drage on the Fv362. The pin is the hamlet, not the sand. Check the way down locally before you set out.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A split mountain on an island with a couple of residents. Movie-locations.com says it is reached by ferry from Florø.
The coast at Hoddevik on the Stad peninsula, January 2008. Frode Inge Helland · CC BY-SA 3.0 Western Norway · Stad peninsula, Vestland, Norway
Stadlandet
The Norwegian Film Commission lists Stadlandet, in Vestland, among the Norwegian locations for Dune.
A wild peninsula of public roads, beaches and cliffs on the Norwegian west coast. The sources name the area, not a single camera point.
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Hoddevik, a bay on the Stad peninsula, January 2013. Pictured as an honest view of the same coast; it is not Myresanden. Maria Helgesen · CC BY-SA 3.0 Western Norway · South of Drage, south-west coast of the Stad peninsula, Vestland
Myresanden
Movie-locations.com, a fan list, places the beach where Paul watches the ship to Arrakis rise from the water at Myresanden, just south of Drage on the Fv362.
A beach on the Stad coast, south of the hamlet of Drage on the Fv362. The pin is the hamlet, not the sand. Check the way down locally before you set out.
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Kinnaklova, the split mountain on Kinn island, off Florø, July 2009. Hjorthefoto · CC BY-SA 2.0 Western Norway · Kinn island, off Florø, Vestland
Kinnaklova
Movie-locations.com, a fan list, names Kinnaklova, a coastal mountain split in two, on Kinn island as a Caladan location.
A split mountain on an island with a couple of residents. Movie-locations.com says it is reached by ferry from Florø.
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Stay
A house by the Caladan coast.
A whole house on the Stad peninsula, near the bay.
Stad Surfing
Stad Surfing house, Hoddevik
Hoddevik, Stad peninsula
A seven-room, 22-bed house rented whole, on the Stad coast. Its page lists 11 000 kr a night; check the dates and booking by email. Pictured: Hoddevik, 2013.
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The archive
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
6 of 6 places · 7 of 7 stories
Stadlandet
Stad peninsula, Vestland, Norway
The last segment
The crew reaches Norway for the final segment of principal photography, then returns in the autumn for aerial footage.
Myresanden
South of Drage, south-west coast of the Stad peninsula, Vestland
Paul on the beach
Paul takes a contemplative walk on the Caladan beach before leaving for Arrakis.
Kinnaklova
Kinn island, off Florø, Vestland
Castle Caladan
Aerial shots of the misty coast show the Castle Caladan set beneath the Kinnaklova cliff.
Wadi Rum
Wadi Rum, southern Jordan
Matching the sand
The crew collects sand at Wadi Rum to match the colour of the Liwa sand.
Liwa Oasis
Liwa, northern edge of the Rub’ al Khali, Abu Dhabi
Eleven days
The film shoots for 11 days at Liwa, in the hottest months of the year.
ORIGO Studios
ORIGO Studios, Budapest, Hungary
The first day
Principal photography begins at ORIGO Studios on 18 March 2019.
The sand ramp
Ornithopter interiors are filmed on a sand-coloured ramp round a gimbal on hilltops outside Budapest.