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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!
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.
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? :-)
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no, but you can get atrophy.
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Battlefield Earth all but proved that great sci-fi books are often unfilmable.
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!
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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People will start to care if they made a 4D Dune movie composed of prescient visions.
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.
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