Filming took place in many locations at once - Hungary, Norway, UAE, Austria and Slovakia, but most of the scenes were shot in deserts, which is natural given the setting of the film. The main part of filming began on March 18, 2019 at the Origo film studio in Budapest; production also took place in the Jordanian desert of Wadi Rum. The Norwegian peninsula of Stadlandet served as the location for the planet Caladan. Filming also took place near Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, whose landscapes shaped the appearance of the planet Arrakis. Additional filming took place in Budapest in August 2020.

Filming Locations:

Arrakis Desert

In the Movie

Scene where Paul Atreides and his mother set off into the desert

In Reality

The scene was filmed in the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan, also known as the Valley of the Moon, is an incredibly popular location for filming desert scenes. It is here that Paul Atreides and his mother Bene Gesserit, Lady Jessica, land after they escape the Harkonnen attack on House Atreides. Before becoming the location for the desert region of the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune, this beautiful landscape first became famous as the main filming location for the movie Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Since then, Wadi Rum has been featured in Hollywood blockbusters such as Prometheus (2012), The Martian (2015), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and many others.

Caladan

In the Movie

Scene where The royal family prepares to depart from their planet.

In Reality

The scene was filmed with the location "Caladan" and all sea scenes were done in Norway, on the Stadlandet peninsula (Stad or Stadlandet), Myresanden beach. The island served as the location for Caladan, the home planet of House Atreides for 26 generations before they took over Arrakis. In Frank Herbert's Dune, he describes Caladan as an ocean world and the filmmakers found it on the Stadlandet peninsula, surrounded by fjords and located between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea.

Planet Arrakis

In the Movie

Scene where The Atreides family relocates to the desert planet to ensure spice production.

In Reality

The scene was filmed in Rub' al Khali - the largest sand desert in the world and the perfect place to film the endless sand dunes of the desert planet Arrakis. Located in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, it covers parts of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.