Quote from: E. Shaw on Mar 22, 2024, 02:26:15 AMI was watching Dune and thought, those Harkonnen armor and outfits looked like Giger's designs and the Engineers, and then I learned Giger worked on a Dune Attempt, and some of his designs featured in the film!
Lots of fun connection points between
Alien/
Prometheus and various iterations of
Dune.
Denis Villeneuve's first
Dune seems to have mined a bit from H.R. Giger's art for the Harkonnen castle in Alejandro Jodorowsky's ill-fated
Dune movie, which also served as the basis for the Engineer temple in
Prometheus.
And as for the Harkonnens/Engineers themselves... in
Prometheus, Elvis was actually one of the design touchpoints/inspirations for for the film's Engineers (alongside the Statue of Liberty and Michelangelo's David statue).
Full circle, eh?
Also a fun little anecdote, Giger's Harkonnen castle got some play in this cute Japanese ad: