John Harrison: Greg was introduced to both Jessica and James. The eponymous children were played by Jessica Brooks and a then-unknown actor called James McAvoy. Saskia Reeves was unavailable, so Alice Krige (the Borg Queen herself) – who had been on Harrison’s radar at the very beginning – took over as Lady Jessica.
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| Courtesy of Ernest Farino.Ī vast majority of the cast who did the first series came back for Children of Dune, with some exceptions. He had more technology at his disposal.Ī complex three-point perspective blue screen shot from Children of Dune. Greg did a lot more blue screen and green screen than I did. By that time, the digital technology for CG was much better. John Harrison: Digital was still fairly cumbersome in terms of the cameras and the recording devices, but the producers wanted to try it. John was producing and had obviously written it, so it was still in the same world, but it was great to have a different head be in charge of it.
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Everyone was in full command of what we’d done before. And it was massive, a lot of names, a lot of world-building.Īlec Newman: Greg came into probably quite a tough environment. I had a weekend to read all six hours of it. That was willing to tackle tricky material. Richard Rubinstein was looking for someone who was excited to work in the digital medium. This was really the first thing on television to shoot in hi-def. Greg Yaitanes (director): I had done stuff for Sci-Fi Channel in America, I was on their radar. I had felt there might be time to do both and all of a sudden, they were like, ‘we got the money for Children of Dune, we got to go now.’ And I was committed to this other project. John Harrison: I had a competing project at ABC. Unfortunately, they hit a scheduling snag. They also decided to film the entire project on digital cameras. The Sci-Fi Channel wanted to reunite the cast and crew from the first miniseries, shooting in Prague, with Harrison again directing his script. Let’s do Dune Messiah as the first night and then do Children of Dune as the next two nights – that’s how I pitched it and that’s how I wrote it. And becoming this religious figure and all of the awful stuff that’s being done in his name and how he wants to shed himself of this. I said we need Dune Messiah to make this transition from Paul having become the emperor realizing what he’s done. Children… came after that and is a massive book. The second book is called Dune Messiah and it’s a very short book. The next two books were still the continuation of the Atreides saga. We had to decide what we were going to do. John Harrison: Within a week, they called me and said, ‘how soon can we have a sequel?’ Luckily, I’d been doing a little bit of research on my own, so I had a pitch ready to go. Julie Cox (actress, Princess Irulan): We all agreed if John was going to do any more, we’d be committed to it.Īlec Newman (actor, Paul Atreides): Nobody had any inkling of whether we’d be asked to do any more.ĭespite Harrison’s advice, the top brass vacillated and didn’t commit to anything until they saw how successful the first miniseries was. John Harrison (writer/producer): I kept saying to everyone, ‘look guys, this is going to work, you better be ready with a sequel.’ Children of Dune came out three years later and once again, we spoke to cast and crew – many of whom returned – about how it came together. Thank you 🙂Īfter the smash-hit, award-winning success of Frank Herbert’s Dune on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2000, it’s not surprising that a sequel followed.
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