Does it have to be one movie and does splitting it up just mean two bad films?
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Denis Villeneuve eyed by Legendary to helm the Dune movie
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Does it have to be one movie and does splitting it up just mean two bad films?
A lot of the book is basically inner monologues of the characters so its not even dialogue but translating the inner turmoil to something on screen that audiences can understand without dumbing it down. Lynch did this in parts despite executing other areas brilliantly, namely changing what is basically space martial arts system practiced by super humans into deadly space noise.
AuthenticM
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Polytechnique, Incendies and Enemy
Poimandres
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Arrival is good as well.
Basically, he has proven himself to be a very capable filmmaker and given the sorts of people who usually get attached to these kinds of projects he's pretty much best case scenario for the likes of Bladerunner 2 and this.
Dune definitely has the chivalric romance aspect of space opera. The rest of the series also features a lot more of what you think of as space opera.
Either way if there was one director I would trust to do this film(s?) properly it is Villeneuve.
I feel that since Arrival, Blade Runner, and Dune are so thematically and as I imagine visually different, he won't get burnt out from sci-fi in directing those projects.
That is unless he makes several Dune or Blade Runner sequels.
I need God Emperor of Dune in either film or TV format plzzzz
Secret Fawful
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We're like one more project away from Villeneuve being the go-to director to hate on like Nolan. Actually, Dune might be the movie to start that trend.
I think Villeneuve is an amazing pick for Dune, though, just off of the imagery I've seen in Blade Runner 2049. He's got a surreal touch like Jodorowsky.
I think Villeneuve is an amazing pick for Dune, though, just off of the imagery I've seen in Blade Runner 2049. He's got a surreal touch like Jodorowsky.
Atom Heart Mother
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oh god please make this happen
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Couldn't get through the book. I liked the idea, but it was very difficult to read, made me fall asleep all the time. I don't like the excessive focus on world building instead of just telling a story. As a movie I think it would work much better, but not as a direct adaptation. Never saw the old one.
Complistic
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Fear is the mind-killer
AuthenticM
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More_Badass
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Villeneuve and Eggers are my favorite new directors (well new as in I only learned about them recently). The former doing Dune would be incredible. and the latter currently doing Nosferatu is just perfect
Oh, and Saulnier too. Lionsgate wanted him to direct the Sicario sequel, but he had to pass
harriet the spy
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I'm ahead of the pack here
. He is an overrated internet favorite. But I already expressed that feeling in the blade runner thread, incidentally by comparing him to Nolan (others mentioned inarritu, which is also on point). Anyway, he could do a decent job on this. But I actually don't hate the Lynch movie.
Most people I've seen hating on Nolan have done it because his movies have some incredibly dumb stuff in them. I haven't seen the same from Villeneuve so far, in fact, it feels a little silly putting them in the same category in any way
I'm ahead of the pack here
oh wow much ahead you must be proud
Which of his films have you seen? i'll reserve judgement for the next 60 seconds
Since Fury Road I've thought George Miller would make a great director for a Dune movie.
Basically. I'm as big a fan of Prestige/TDK/Inception as basically anyone on the planet, but TDKR and Interstellar had massive groaners that exposed weaknesses Nolan had from the beginning.
People in this thread should call me when DV starts making some boneheaded moves cus i've seen none so far.
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Not just Prisoners and Sicario. Add in Polytechnique, Incendies, Enemy and Arrival and you get the best goddamn director working in Hollywood right now. The man is fire. Hell Maelström was great too.
shira
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He's not the GOAT, but he's definitely hot atm. JC is GOAT until someone beats Avatar.
DV makes films in a way that really resonates with people and you can tell he's like 5 steps ahead of the audience playing a game with you.
F0rneus
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But John Carpenter didn't direct Avatar. And no one has ever defeated him thus far. Maybe peak Argento.
Glass Rebel
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Fuck it, do it.
I found Prisoners a bit disappointing but I left Arrival absolutely floored.
I found Prisoners a bit disappointing but I left Arrival absolutely floored.
AuthenticM
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Marie-Josée Croze is bae
I hope Denis casts her again in one of his movies.
Hell. I think she would make a fantastic Lady Jessica. She's got the eyes and the power.
sidenote: you guys should watch the French film Ne le dis à personne. It is fantastic.
Secret Fawful
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I would agree, with Eggers leading the bunch.
Give it a few years. My point isn't that they're exactly the same as filmmakers, but more that they both started small and I see a gradual incline in scale and budget for both of them, and when a director starts getting more acclaim and more of a name for big budget sci-fi projects, that's when they become a go-to director to hate for many. Though, Villeneuve really feels like a better, smarter, slower Nolan to me, just only from a surface level.
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that's dope but man I hope he doesn't entirely leave behind movies like Enemy, Sicario and Prisoners (or his French stuff)
MagicWithEarvin
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When will GAF turn on Villenueve like they did Nolan?
How can he leave anything behind? The man seem to have no limitations when it comes to genre.
Glass Rebel
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Same as Nolan, when he makes a stupid movie.
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Prisoners got pretty stupid near the end tbh. But everything preceding it was a solid crime mystery movie.
Glass Rebel
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Eh, I was more bothered by Keller going 0 to 100 real quick.
F0rneus
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Pardon my (Quebec) French but...est bae en tabarnac d'hostie. Une vraie bombe, de toe bords cte femme la. She should have been much bigger than she was. She's nearing 50 now and never had that one breakthrough role that she deserved.
Bolivar687
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Heyyo I REALLY liked Sicario and Arrival but maybe we should wait for Blade Runner before we hail him as the prophesied director who would fulfill the promise of Dune on the big screen?
Also, everyone should try to see Arrival before it leaves theaters if you haven't already. You're just not going to get the same intense sense of dread that the movie pushes.
Also, everyone should try to see Arrival before it leaves theaters if you haven't already. You're just not going to get the same intense sense of dread that the movie pushes.
On a side note, as a big fan of the Frank Herbert Dune novels I absolutely hated pretty much all of the Lynch Dune. Absolutely butchered the novel and weirdly made it about shouting his name into guns...
The two Dune mini series were a lot closer to the source material but were really a product of their time and budget. Children of Dune was a little better in this regard.
The two Dune mini series were a lot closer to the source material but were really a product of their time and budget. Children of Dune was a little better in this regard.
AuthenticM
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It's a goddamn shame. She won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 2003, over Nicole fucking Kidman, and yet she is still relegated to supporting roles in every movie she's in. I just don't understand. She must have an incredibly shitty agent.
Fuck this shit. One mediocre movie does not suddenly make 9 great ones nonexistent. You guys are the worst sometimes.
Simo
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Children of Dune's OST is terrific. I also like Lynch's Dune but then I've never read the book despite grabbing a nice hardcover edition from the UK about 10 years ago. Lpp
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I think Nolan has more middling ones than that but yeah it's laughable that people are already admitting they're willing to throw Villeneuve in the bushes after one bad movie.
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whew. you're in for some enjoyable stuff man. Benicio Del Toro is ice cold.
In the case of Nolan that's two stupid movies in a row.
harriet the spy
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I was saying this in jest you doofus (though I do think he is enjoyable but certainly doesn't make 'good' movies). As for your question: All after 2009. Nothing before.
BlackLagoon
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Well, once the Honored Matres show up in book 5 and 6 it certainly seemed far more suitable for hentai...
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you didn't like Incendies or Polytechnique?
Head of Vengarl
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I would so love to see a Dune movie done right.
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