Trivia / 50/50

• Acting for Two: Dune (1984) opens with a summary of the film's chaotic preproduction, with four actors playing all the real persons involved:
  • Links does the sequence's introduction speech (pastiching Irulan's), as well as playing Arthur P. Jacobs, an unammed French producer involved in Jodorowsky's aborted Dune project, and Dino De Laurentiis.
  • David plays David Lean, Dan O'Bannon, and Ridley Scott.
  • Jérémy plays Alejandro Jodorowsky, and David Lynch.
  • Lou plays Robert Bolt, H. R. Giger, and Raffaella De Laurentiis.
  • Outside of this sequence, the episode also features David-Jérémy-Lou cast as three Fremen warriors (in a parody scene mocking the concept of Weirding Modules) and in a parody of the scene Alia meets the emperor (David as Alia, Jérémy as the emperor, and Lou as Mohiam).
• Dawson Casting: Dune has a parody scene where David (an adult man who definitively does look like one) is cast as Alia, who is supposed to be a very young child — if not a toddler (an uncannily intelligent and mature one, but still physically a two years-old child) according to the book and the film (which is itself an example of the trope, as Alicia Witt was eight or nine when the filming occured).
• Prop Recycling: In Dune, one of the rubber hoses used to make the stillsuits is reused to make the circle atop "Alia"'s headdress.
• Similarly Named Works: This show is unrelated with the 1992 action film or the 2011 drama.