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."

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Re:that's a matter of opinion

[MightyMartian]

The "memory" thing as you call it was RNA-encoded memory (it was kind of a pop-sci pseudotheory that floated around for a while in the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Niven used it for a story as well). You'll notice if you read the books that none of those ancestral individuals were there until death, basically they're identities got stuck in the RNA of a Bene Gesserit when they contributed their bit at conception. The only exception was the Duncan Idaho golah (clone) that shows up in the last two novels, who was cloned from all sorts of previous Duncan Idaho golahs, including what were obviously scrapings of Duncan Idaho's killed by Leto II (hence that Duncan Idaho did have memories of his death). The whole point of the Kwisatz Haderach was that it would be a male that could both go into the Bene Gesserit spice trance and could also access male racial memories/identities (apparently women could only see female ancestors).

As to prescience, while Herbert never really went into it, it's clear that it was a naturalistic phenomenon in his universe. It isn't magic, but what appears to be a way for a prescient individual to collapse the wave function, which is why prescience ended being so bad, even before Muad-dib came on the scene (the Guild had been using it for thousands of years since the destruction of the AIs), because it essentially locked humanity into a single future.

So while Herbert's Dune universe seems to have some supernatural aspects, that's only because, to some extent, the players treat them that way. The Bene Gesserit and the Guild, in particular, surround their powers in a thick layer of metaphysical mumbo jumbo, but underneath, those powers are rationally explainable (within the context of the universe Herbert creatd).

Re:Hmmm...

[VincentFreeman]

Excuse me, but I'm calling serious bullshit on that!

You call bullshit? Alright, I'll raise one interview with Frank Herbert & David Lynch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zw10o48NoE

Give it a good listen. Fascinating stuff.