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Denis Villeneuve Knows How the Fremen Get Off the Sandworms in ‘Dune 2’: ‘I Found a Way…I Can’t Wait to Put That on Screen’

'Dune 2' director Denis Villeneuve said he 'found a way' for the Fremen to get off the sandworms and that he 'can't wait' to put it on screen.

Riding a sandworm across the desert planet of Arrakis is something most “Dune” fans have undoubtedly wanted to do at one point or another, but it begs the question: how would one actually get off the giant annelids? Villeneuve confessed to getting “repeated queries” about this “crazy Uber system,” with fans asking how Fremen dismounted the worms upon reaching their final destination. “Everything that we shot in the deep desert was not easy because I wanted a level of realism that required us to create giant structures or shadow makers in order to make the light believable.

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