Sci Fi Gives Green Light To "Children of Dune"

fooguy writes "Our friends at the Sci Fi Channel have given the Green Light to begin production of Children of Dune. According to the release, 'The miniseries begins production in Prague in April 2002 and is slated to air in 2003. Dune adapter John Harrison wrote the script, based on "Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune," the second and third novels in Frank Herbert's six-volume Dune Chronicles series. Richard P. Rubinstein comes back on board as executive producer. The sequel will continue the story of the Atreides family and recount the fall of Paul's empire, with the future resting in the hands of Paul's heirs, his twin children."

Comments

Re:Better news than the novels

[Amazing Quantum Man]

I hope, at least, that they get the design of the Weirding Modules directly from the book this time.

There ARE NO FUCKING WIERDING MODULES IN THE BOOK!!!!!

Re:No movie to compare to

[jspey]

"God Emperor of Dune! was the best one. The whole point of the first three books, besides telling a story was to set up book 4. The series wouldn't have been as good as it was if it wasn't for the ideas he put forth in book four and carried out through the last two. He really goes out of his way to drive home both the advances and the risks of all the exploration that gets done after "God Emperor".

Mr. Spey

Re:It wouldn't surprise me...

[bravehamster]

Yeah, yeah, I knew as I soon as I submitted it that someone would comment on that. What I should have said was "Hollywood, which is not very well known for risk-taking or being offensive, has since 9/11 become so annoyingly non-offensive and cautious about certain things that it's actually starting to offend me." Better? ;)