"Visually, you can imagine the animal as a 'sandworm' from the 'Dune' science fiction novels ... is closely related to the modern-day checkerboard worm lizard, which is endemic to North Africa.

There's a new cinematic worm in Hollywood. The movie adaptations of Frank Herbert's novel Dune introduced audiences to the Shai-Hulud, massive sandworms native to the desert planet of Arrakis.

Even though Dune: Part Two is a continuation of the story ... new weapons, and the worms are much more than they were in the first, so a sonic sense of the worms had to be created.” ...

in terms of how would you actually get atop the worm, the timing. And there’s that great moment when Paul’s running across the sand dune and jumps aboard, and how would you stay on and the goggles and ...