El Cosmico here, the fine folks over at the Sci-Fi Channel will very soon be heavily promoting their ambitious new mini-series, DUNE.

Our pal Kozmicthrills (no relation) was kind enough to obtain a copy of the December issue of Sci-Fi Magazine, and scan a bit of it for us.

They basically talk about how they're trying to be VERY faithful to the original novel, they show a bunch of photos, there's a poster, and talk about the process of making the mini-series. A nice read, altogether very interesting.

I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm REALLY looking forward to this series. I mean, Vittorio Storaro is the cinematographer. DAMN! Freaking Vittorio Storaro! The cinematographer from THE SHELTERING SKY, THE LAST EMPEROR, and APOCALYPSE NOW!!! Holy crap. At the very least, we know this mini-series is going to LOOK beautiful. Of course, it would have been nice if Bertolucci was the director, but you can't have everything. I'm sure John Harrison will do a fine job.

Anyway, here are the pics from the mag, and if you haven't already, if you have ANY interest in this mini-series at all, you should go over to the Sci-Fi Channel's DUNE Website and explore. There are TONS of beautiful photos, showing off the elaborate sets and costumes, interviews, trailers (in the Events section), and a fairly large and very informative Q and A section with John Harrison (the writer/director), that's definitely worth reading through. Anyway, the pictures there look better than these: