Tomb · San Vito d’Altivole, near Treviso, Italy
The Brion tomb
Dark in the camera, bright to the eye. Slide the filter all the way in to read what was shot here.
Shot in infrared where the sun is black · 2024
Dune: Part Two
Giedi Prime has a black sun, so the film shot it in infrared. Seven real places follow, each seen in ordinary light and then through the same filter. In the band: the Brion tomb in Italy.
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The filter
Take out the cut-off
For Giedi Prime the crew replaced the standard infrared cut-off filters with 87C filters, which block visible light. Pick a place, then slide the filter in. This is a simulation on a still photograph, not footage from the film.
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0 of 7 places seen through 87C
Visible light87C
The Brion tomb in visible light. Slide to the end to open its facts.
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Memoriale Brion
Altivole, near Treviso
The owner’s page for the Brion tomb: free self-guided entry in opening hours and guided tours by reservation. Pictured: the tomb, 2021.
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148 days, one eclipse
Principal photography ran from 18 July to 12 December 2022. Day 100 fell on a partial solar eclipse, and Denis Villeneuve’s crew used it.
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Day 1 of 148 · 18 July 2022
Principal photography begins in Budapest.
The film qualified for tax rebates of at least 25 per cent of in-state costs from the Hungarian, Jordanian and Abu Dhabi governments.
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Go and look
Daylight
The Brion tomb, Moreeb Dune in the Liwa area, Wadi Rum, Hungexpo and the Fiume Road Graveyard can be pinned and visited. The Varga Márton garden and the Namibian coast are named by the sources without an address, so they are not pinned.
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Where it is now
5 places you can visit in Italy, Budapest and the deserts, plus two named without an address.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An exhibition ground with a changing fair calendar; entry depends on the event held. The photograph shows the grounds, not the production.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An open cemetery near Keleti station, reached on Metro line 2. Burials have stopped; walk the paths and respect the graves.
The Hungexpo exhibition grounds in Budapest, seen before the Dune shoot. Mister No · CC BY 3.0 Albertirsai út, Budapest
Hungexpo, Budapest
Most of the Budapest shoot used sets built at Hungexpo, a convention centre of about 9,600 square metres (103,000 square feet), and at Origo Studios.
An exhibition ground with a changing fair calendar; entry depends on the event held. The photograph shows the grounds, not the production.
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The Pantheon of the Workers' Movement at the Fiume Road Graveyard, 1968. Fortepan, ID 23159 (Lechner Nonprofit Kft. Dokumentációs Központ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 Fiumei út, Józsefváros, Budapest
Fiume Road Graveyard
A Budapest location for the film was the Pantheon of the Workers’ Movement, a mausoleum in the Fiume Road Graveyard.
An open cemetery near Keleti station, reached on Metro line 2. Burials have stopped; walk the paths and respect the graves.
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Stay
A room in the dunes.
A desert resort in the Liwa area, listed by Abu Dhabi’s tourism site.
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Liwa, Abu Dhabi
A desert resort in the Liwa area, about 90 minutes from Abu Dhabi, as listed by Abu Dhabi’s tourism site. Pictured: Moreeb Dune, 2023.
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Walk in, or hire a jeep.
The Brion tomb’s owner, plus live results for Wadi Rum, Liwa and Budapest.
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Memoriale Brion
Altivole, near Treviso
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7 of 7 places · 7 of 7 stories
The Brion tomb
San Vito d’Altivole, near Treviso, Italy
The pre-shoot
A two-day session at the Brion tomb in early July 2022 comes before principal photography; the tomb doubles for the imperial court.
Liwa, Abu Dhabi
Liwa Oasis, Western Region, Abu Dhabi
The dunes
Desert scenes in the Liwa area stand in for Arrakis.
Wadi Rum, Jordan
Wadi Rum Protected Area, southern Jordan
The canyons
Jordan’s canyons and rock formations, Wadi Rum among them, are filmed for the desert world.
Hungexpo, Budapest
Albertirsai út, Budapest
Day one
Principal photography begins in Budapest on 18 July 2022, two days early.
Fiume Road Graveyard
Fiumei út, Józsefváros, Budapest
The pantheon
The Pantheon of the Workers’ Movement in the Fiume Road Graveyard is a Budapest location.
Varga Márton Japanese garden
Zugló, Budapest (garden named by the film article; no address given)
The garden
Filming takes place at the Japanese gardens of the Varga Márton Múzeum.
The Namibian coast
Coastal desert, Namibia (no site named)
The last day
A 20-person second unit shoots Namibian coastal desert on the final day of principal photography.