Screenwriter Eric Roth wrote the screenplay for Dune in an old MS-DOS program that isn’t available anymore called Movie Master 3.09.<\/p>\n
Roth\u2014known for his work on Forrest Gump, Munich, and most recently Dune\u2014revealed in an interview in 2014 that he does all of his screenwriting using the MS-DOS program Movie Master 3.09.<\/p>\n
“I work on an old computer program that’s not in existence anymore. It’s half superstition and half fear of change.” Roth says in the interview.<\/p>\n
He wrote the screenplay for Dune in 2018. In 2020, while on a Barstool Sports podcast<\/a>,<\/strong> he explained that he is still using Movie Master for all his work, including Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.<\/p>\n Roth opens an MS-DOS window after booting up his Windows XP computer to run Movie Master.<\/p>\n He also uses what looks like an original beige IBM Model M keyboard \u2014 a true connoisseur.<\/p>\n “So now I’m in DOS. Nobody can get on the internet and get this,” said Roth.<\/p>\n “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 computers because you can’t even email mine or anything.”<\/p>\n “You can’t get to it except where it is. It has 40 pages, and it runs out of memory.”<\/p>\n Roth says that the 40 page limit of the software helps him to organise and structure his work into acts, “I realise if I hadn’t said it in 40 pages, I’m starting to get in trouble.”<\/p>\n Roth says<\/strong><\/a> that he is a bit of Luddite when it comes to writing.<\/p>\n