David Lynch Doing a Personal Re-Edit of Dune? Zowie ...

Okay, I've been open in the past about my dislike for Lynch's Dune - the weakest of his films, in my opinion - but if this is true, I'm so there. So very, very there.

"fantastic news today regarding the recently delayed Dune extended edition dvd--it appears that the release date was pushed back b/c lynch had a last minute change-of-heart and decided to revisit the film (which he had previously claimed he was done w/ forever). this means that we will finally get to watch a lynch-approved director's cut of Dune, which is infinitely better than the previously-announced crappy alan smithee tv edit. considering that lynch should have some 5+ hours of footage to work with during the re-edit process, hopefully this new version will add a significant amount of lynch-y goodness and flesh out the scope of the cool-yet-flawed theatrical version. this was totally one of those things, along with fincher revisiting Alien 3, that i thought would never ever happen. very happy about this...

from:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents"

Big thanks to Jung for the note ...