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Originally Posted by Water Warrior
but then they made a movie of it and killed my interest in the whole thing.
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I had a small production company in San Francisco. I talked with Herbert about getting the film rights... I thought I/we had some pretty good ideas. But, he sold the rights for $1,000,000 (a record setting amount at the time) to De Laurentiis. Cool with me because De Laurentiis had the bucks to do a really great job, and I loved the book... You can't even imagine how disappointed I was when I saw the film