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The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS

  The Oscar winning screenwriter of ‘Dune’ writes in an MS-DOS program
  that can only hold 40 pages in memory.
  [64]Matthew Gault
  by [65]Matthew Gault
  October 26, 2021, 1:00pm
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  Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

  In the brutal future of Frank Herbert’s Dune, computers are outlawed
  and high level computations are done by specially trained and bred
  humans called mentats. In Herbert’s world, there’s something elegant
  about old solutions to new problems. Good then that Oscar winning Dune
  screenwriter Eric Roth banged out the screenplay using the MS-DOS
  program Movie Master.
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  Roth writes everything using the 30-year-old software. “I work on an
  old computer program that’s not in existence anymore,” Roth said in an
  [66]interview in 2014. “It’s half superstition and half fear of
  change.” Roth wrote the screenplay for Dune in 2018 and explained he
  was still using Movie Master [67]on a Barstool Sports podcast in 2020.
  That means Dune was written in an MS-DOS program.

  In the video, he pulled up a DOS window in Windows XP and booted up
  Movie Master 3.09 on an ancient beige mechanical keyboard. “So now I’m
  in DOS. Nobody can get on the internet and get this,” Roth said. “I
  have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in
  their computers and then I have to work through their computer because
  you can’t even email mine or anything. You can’t get to it except where
  it is. It has 40 pages and it runs out of memory.”

  Writing is fundamentally about putting your ass in the chair and typing
  the words. Eliminating distractions (I’ve checked Twitter at least five
  times while writing this short blog) is a key to success. Nothing
  eliminates distractions like a stripped down simple program with no
  internet access. Roth also said the 40 page limit helps him structure
  his screenplays.“I like it because it makes acts,” he said. “I realize
  if I hadn’t said it in 40 pages I’m starting to get in trouble.”

  Roth isn’t the only writer to use older programs to write in. George RR
  Martin has used the MS-DOS program [68]WordStar to slowly write every
  single Game of Thrones book.
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