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Dune Remake Could Mean 3D Sandworms
bowman9991 writes "The new Dune remake is becoming as epic as Frank Herbert's Dune series itself. Now that director Peter Berg has been ousted, new director Pierre Morel has decided to throw out Peter Berg's script entirely, starting afresh with his own ideas and vision. 'We're starting from scratch,' said Morel. 'Peter had an approach which was not mine at all, and we're starting over again.' Morel also reveals that 'It's the kind of movie that has the scope to be 3D.' He's also keen on sticking to the original material and recognizes that he must try to delete the images associated with David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune from the public's consciousness."
Nice! I cant wait for a sci-fi movie that's entirely done in 3D where the main character bonds with an idigenous species who dwell on a planet that has a resource unobtainable anywhere else in the universe! They should get James Cameron to direct it!
I'm too lazy to google it- but I do remember watching one for nine hours over three dvds without getting up! Can I have trophy?
I keep trying to imagine Dune like Lord of the Rings but I keep needing to interrupt myself to go to the bathroom...
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Hell, I've read all the original books (written by Frank himself) and I still don't think I could summarize the plot.
I'll probably watch it as soon as they're able to delete the images of Sting in a speedo from my consciousness.
Wasn't the SciFi network mini-series good enough?
Good enough to do what:
- to ensure no further remakes are made out of shame?
- to strengthen the eye muscles of anyone who'd read the book by either rolling their eyes or attempting to close them after they've already been shut?
- to harvest a few gigawatts of electricity from the wild dynamo of Frank Herbert rolling in his grave?
Before they made that movie they should've considered whether they needed to add any more disgrace to the Herbert estate. Hasn't Brian Herbert done enough damage already?
Mesa think isa great idea.
And, you know what? I know we're trying to be more faithful to the original work, but this whole "butlerian jihad" bit really seems a minor point... How about we add some robots, huh?
Bow-ties are cool.
Rampaging cult overthrows galactic government.
Done, now was that so hard? :-)
I may agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to face the consequences of saying it.
you need a fremen suit, duh...
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That's what stillsuits are for.
Battlefield Earth all but proved that great sci-fi books are often unfilmable.
It's 's' unless it's American English. No, I don't mean it in the Microsoft way of dictation, but rather the international standard. Honestly, only Americans could bastardize the word bastardise.
Well what do you expect? They took the 'u' out of honour as well.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
NO! The risk of him creating a Dune Jarjar is too great.
Call Michael Bay!
It could be a sandworm with legs!
"Mesa Wormy Worms! How is youusa?"
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
NO!
Surely you mean "Dune Not Want"?
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Just wait about a decade, all the details will slip away and your entire memory of it will look something like this:
Kid goes to a different planet, some fat dude wants to kill him, he runs away and hides with crazy cave-people who drink their own piss, something about a big worm, then he comes back and kills everybody, oh and there's a huge spaceship and some lizard-looking dude who lives in a giant bong, anyway he kills the emperor and becomes the king of everything and then his little sister is creepy for awhile.
The second book I remember as follows:
Uh, there's a weapon that's kind of like a nuke except it just melts down instead of exploding and the kid gets hit by it and his eyes melt but he can see anyway, a bunch of other stuff happens too probably?
So you see, time makes summarizing anything easy!
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Rampaging cult overthrows galactic government.
Done, now was that so hard? :-)
So Star Wars
People will start to care if they made a 4D Dune movie composed of prescient visions.
If you judge the 1984 version as poor as a movie, so be it. If you judge it as poor for not being a faithful adaptation of the book then you've missed the point of film.
I think I'm entitled to the latter criticism when the ending is changed to be completely the opposite of what Orwell wrote.
Terry Gilliam got the spirit right when he wrote Brazil.
it will be like "a day in the life of Yoda" vs. the original Star Wars trilogy.
11:00-woke up.
12:00-hangover wore off enough to leave house
1:00-Wondered through swamp
2:00-Meditated for 6 hours
8:00-Went clubing
9:30-Got two girls upstairs
10:00-Oh shit oh shit I killed one!
10:15-Jedi mind tricked the cop. Got off free.
11:30-Returned home, punked, went to bed.
Maybe it was my age when I saw it, but to me I don't care what's in the books - the Lynch movie is what the Dune universe is to me
Good grief, this is like saying Cheeze Whiz is what defines cheese for you. I'm sorry for you.
In Canada, we just accept both spellings and get on with our lives.
If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
I think he meant Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
We could get Tim Burton and make them all the same midget.
What the hell are you talking about? There's no "u" in "honor"! Can't you recognize that? ;-)
True. Let us slay the infidel honorably. Draw thine knife, kafir!