Extra Sauce
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The legendary status of the franchise will do some of the heavy lifting. A great movie and competent marketing should take care of the rest.
Also it would help if the production doesn't cost 200 million.
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Denis Villeneuve eyed by Legendary to helm the Dune movie
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The legendary status of the franchise will do some of the heavy lifting. A great movie and competent marketing should take care of the rest.
Also it would help if the production doesn't cost 200 million.
That's kinda my fear. You could very easily film a simple story for Dune, but at least for me that's not why I like Dune. Dune has been about big ideas and frankly it can get a little fucking weird but thats why I love it. Here's hoping it doesn't turn out to be another Avatar.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
That was because Jodorowski was fucking nuts in what he wanted to do with the film. The script was a comic drawn by Moebius that was bigger than a Chinese phonebook.
if they make that one book into more than one movie...looking at the book itself:
you either break the movie into 3 parts each movie following a "book" of the novel
book 1 "dune"
book 2 "muad'dib"
book 3 "the prophet"
OR you split the movie into 2 parts with movie 1 ending @ chapter 7 of "book 2" - where paul and mother are captured by the fremen. be a decent "cliffhanger" spot to end the book.
now granted that would mean that movie one would be a bit...boring since it is almost all "Setup" for the latter half of the book.
you either break the movie into 3 parts each movie following a "book" of the novel
book 1 "dune"
book 2 "muad'dib"
book 3 "the prophet"
OR you split the movie into 2 parts with movie 1 ending @ chapter 7 of "book 2" - where paul and mother are captured by the fremen. be a decent "cliffhanger" spot to end the book.
now granted that would mean that movie one would be a bit...boring since it is almost all "Setup" for the latter half of the book.
More_Badass
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It just might be happening. Fucking amazing
Awesome. Just hope Blade Runner delivers (I think it will). DV's on quite the run right now after Arrival.
Lmfao. Villeneuve's face + Tarantino peaking through really makes this.
Garmonbozia
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The movie is going to have at least ~3 hours of runtime if they are going to follow the book closely.
And holy crap, Lynch's version is 2h 17m long. It sure felt longer than that.
fierrotlepou
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This guy.
HeisenbergWW62
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Denis is a god among men. Hope he still directs The Son with Jake Gyllenhaal
Edit: and please please please get Roger Deakins
Edit: and please please please get Roger Deakins
I expect a lot of hate but Dune should be an anime/animation re the animated scenes from kill bill, not a live action movie
There is so much internal dialog in the books, that when you translate it into a movie/series it comes across as some over budget soap opera with garbage acting. Animation allows for that kind of introspection without it coming across as weird and gross
Maybe it will be good, but I have serious doubts
There is so much internal dialog in the books, that when you translate it into a movie/series it comes across as some over budget soap opera with garbage acting. Animation allows for that kind of introspection without it coming across as weird and gross
Maybe it will be good, but I have serious doubts
Dune has always felt like a Netflix/HBO TV series to me, but if they are planning to do a big film then I wouldn't be too shocked to see the first arrive in the anticipation of a trilogy. Studios love trilogies.
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Book is weird there. 15 year old Paul is physically manly and VERY mature intellectually - with these weird blips for the first few chapters, where he thinks deep thoughts, but blurts out the occasional "teen" answer for the first couple of chapters. Then he's Lawrence of Arabia after the Bene Geserit "human" test. The value you'd get out of a 15 year old would be gone by the seocnd act. I thought McLachlan was actually fine, age wise. Smooth skinned and youthful, but regal looking.
You can never have enough sci fi movies.
Except no one really watches anime. Everyone watches movies. Dune deserves an acutal real audience.
Melon Husk
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Neat 
Arrival, BR2049 and now this, hopefully each more epic than the previous. Casting is everything to me for a Dune movie, eager to see what happens... I feel like Adam Baldwin would be the perfect Duncan Idaho or Gurney Halleck.
Arrival, BR2049 and now this, hopefully each more epic than the previous. Casting is everything to me for a Dune movie, eager to see what happens... I feel like Adam Baldwin would be the perfect Duncan Idaho or Gurney Halleck.Vulcano's assistant
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looking forward to those visions of the future.
A bad adaptation is easily "filmable." You can easily make a Dune movie about non-ironic hero worship, or one where Space Arabs are once again played by water-rich white folks (Sci-Fi Channel's Chani could sustain a tribe for weeks!).
Lots of issues begin to pop up when you try to fit what Dune was actually about into the Hollywood blockbuster mold, especially if the studio wants to develop the series into a "cinematic universe" (with increasingly challenging protagonists and a new cast for every other sequel... and god help us if they try adapting Herbert Jr.'s fanfics).
We already have one beautiful, but hollow adaptation. I'm not sure if we need another.
I mostly agree with what you've said about the Lynch film, I just wish could have listed, I dunno, Yueh instead of Chani. That bit of casting was "acceptable" in the '80s, but it doesn't look quite so perfect today. So I guess I'm willing to high five you with a crysknife behind my back.
Is this the part where we spit in each other's general direction?
Nope.
Orgy time.
It's OK. Some loved it, but I thought it was just OK. Definitely pleased that I saw it in a theater. Plenty of beautiful cinematography.
For reference I am 100% with you on Sicario. That's a far better film mo.
Langdon Alger
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This is actually a good idea for a reboot for once.
PhoncipleBone
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Kyle MacLachlan should be Duke Leto. Just for a joke.
Hyperactivity
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I bet a decent amount of book 1 can be shortened. Sort of introduce the bene Gesserit, have the family quickly go onto fine, briefly talk about the atreides feud with (shit it's been so long), and then give the latter half to the battle and Paul being found...
Oh wait you said that already...
Spiral Insanity
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I just don't have any confidence in Legendary.
There's also this.
Hyperactivity
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Could you imagine if they ever get to the god emperor? And managers to do him well? Im not sure if it's possible
That reminds me, I don't think I finished book 4, but I would have to strat from the beginning at this point.
It's gonna be sean bean, I can already see it
That reminds me, I don't think I finished book 4, but I would have to strat from the beginning at this point.
It's gonna be sean bean, I can already see it
I'm waiting for Blade Runner before crowning him that way.
More_Badass
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Steve Jobs, Interstellar, Batman Begins, Pacific Rim, and so on?
I think they have a good track record with their decent to great films
Dash_Riprock
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There is hope. Now just move as FAR away from the God awful Lynch aesthetic as possible. Also, no piss awful 80s rock soundtrack.
Ban this filth.
Dash_Riprock
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Give me the funny hats of the miniseries. I'd take that over Lynch.
And on a more serious note, I hope they get actual middle-eastern actors to play the Fremen this time around.
PanSexual_Peacock
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As much as I love Denis, wouldn't Dune be better suited for TV?
Freeza Under The Shower
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Having never read the novel myself:
one shot suggestion that I really like in that one is the pan over the galaxy, going from one space battle to another around nameless rocks, and in the center of it all: Arrakis.
Instead of telling the viewer about spice and "spice must flow", that shot is a good way to immediately show what spice is, what it means, and that the dry sand ball is the eye of the storm. (storm being appropriate with the Lynch movie at least).
I have to confess that I've been meaning to use it too.
Um, not sure the Fremen are ever described as Middle Eastern. Certainly in my head, they were arabs with piercing blue eyes, basically more raba versions of the "Afghanistan GirL" from Nat Geo, but were they actually ever described as Middle Eastern?
The most "accurate" version of Dune we have gotten is arguable the SciFi channel version but it was the most low budget and unambitious and by the numbers. Lynch got a lot of things wrong but the general tone and aesthetic of his film was pretty spot on. The casting was great as well
Dune isn't a space opera. Barely any of it actually takes place in space and is often in passing.
You can't be serious. Space Operas are not defined by how much of the story take place in space itself.
More_Badass
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I always classified space operas as "galaxy scale". Space battles, sweeping scope and scale, and whatnot. Dune sounds much more intimate and less of a grand scope than say Star Wars
Basically Dune is a sci-fi epic, but it isn't a space opera IMO
firehawk12
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Hire Jodorowsky please.
theepicoftyler
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I can't wait for the inevitable mainstream media backlash to the sequel.
shira
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Assuming he's signed on for a cinematic universe it would almost have to be. Thats some serious Hayden ChristianSen expectations without the Tom Holland support net.
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