Warner Bros. has revealed the logo for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Dune adaptation at a French convention, and it’s really striking.
The logo, positioned above the image of a sand dune, uses a curved U-shaped icon positioned in four different ways in order to spell out Dune in a stylish manner. A lens flare element in the final shape helps create a more obvious letter E.
Images of the logo have not been officially released by Warner Bros., but photographs taken at the convention have made their way onto Reddit and the wider internet.
While not offering a close look at the film, this title treatment does allow an insight into the film’s potential aesthetic. It’s clean and futuristic, which could mean we’re looking at a particularly sleek vision of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic. This would be in direct contrast to David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation, that was rather baroque in its art design, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed version which featured horror-like design work by a pre-Alien H. R. Giger.
Fans of the book have amusingly pointed out that a few more of the U shapes could be dropped in to spell out Duncan, in reference to popular Dune character Duncan Idaho. Duncan will be portrayed by Jason Momoa in this new adaptation.
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Dune releases December 18 this year, and is the first of a two-part adaptation of the original novel. It is also the first release of a larger Dune-based franchise planned by Warner Bros., with reports saying a TV series based on the Bene Gesserit order – Dune: The Sisterhood – has been ordered as a direct-to-series show.
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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.
Source: IGN.com Dune Has a Really Interesting New Logo