Frank Herbert’s Dune 2000 - Sci-Fi  I Adventure I Drama I Fantasy

Have you seen Moebius’ take on Feyd-Rautha?? I love the 2024 film but the femboy appreciators were robbed in this way. They really said ‘one mountain cannot contain two twinks*

alia atreides & marie fenring.

hilda koe / yoshitaka amano / frederick cayley robinson / edvard munch / dolce & gabbana fw 2006 by steven maisel / arthur hacker / federico zendomeneghi / john collier / elizabeth nourse

“I’m following someone, and it triggers a Holy War.”

Lady Jessica and Paul Atreides in Dune (2021) // The Road; The Shadow; Too Long, Too Narrow, Maria Martins (1946)

saint alia of the knife

[They] think to trick me by making me distrust your mother. They don’t know that I’d sooner distrust myself.

Lady Jessica & Duke Leto Dune, Frank Herbert

REBECCA FERGUSON — Dune: Part One (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve — Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

“Once I put myself in their skin, and get rid of all the onion skins, the levels between the inside and the outside, I feel I can then help create the bridge from the actor to the character. I did psychological studies on each of these characters. Lady Jessica is basically a concubine but a very intelligent one and a highly trained Benne Gesserit. Not only does she have a mystical side but she also has an intelligent, old soul side. I wanted her outfits to be both compellingly nun-like, but also appropriate for a courtesan, which is also what she is. I had to embody all of those somewhat contradictory things in her costumes.

So I went to Goya, who is one of my favorite painters. I’ve always felt there are two painters from the past who would be filmmakers if they lived today. One is Goya and the other is Giotto. I took from both of them — Giotto more for the nun-like Benne Gesserit; and more Goya for Lady Jessica, because there’s a deep, Spanish romanticism in his paintings, especially The Clothed Maja. That’s where I got the idea for the laced dress for her. I didn’t use Spanish lace, but I had a lace made that looked very much like the future, but with a real romantic touch from the past.” - Jacqueline West, Costume Designer on Dune

Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica in Dune (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve

‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ by Stan & Vince Stan Manoukian & Vincent Roucher). Privately commissioned prints.

"There were a couple of scenes [in Dune (2021)] that were all about the training technique. There was one scene that I was quite sad they cut away. There are physical training methods, where Jessica teaches Paul the art of fighting with the knives that he later uses on Jamis [the Fremen warrior played by Babs Olusanmokun]" - Rebecca Ferguson for The Hollywood Reporter

Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica and Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides photographed by Chiabella James on set of Dune (2021) | "The Art and Soul of Dune" and "Dune: Part One : The Photography"

I've been putting off drawing Alia for too long......