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DP Greig Fraser on the Biggest Challenge Shooting ‘Dune 2’, How He Manages New Tech and Why Denis Villeneuve Thinks ‘He’s a Pioneer’


DP Greig Fraser on the Biggest Challenge Shooting Dune 2, dealing with new technology and why Denis Villeneuve thinks 'He's a Pioneer'

“One doesn’t come out of the womb wanting to be a cinematographer,” says Greig Fraser, the go-to director of photography for such helmers as Garth Davis, Matt Reeves, Denis Villeneuve and more. “I remember being 7 or 8, writing a script about a war film, and we had some toy guns and army jackets, and we thought, ‘Why can’t we make it?’” he says over the phone as he walks home from a shoot in the U.K. on a warm summer evening. Armed with the knowledge of shooting the Volume and using virtual production, Fraser found it helped problem solve on both “The Batman” and “Dune: Part One.”

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