Merkel Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Fantastic. Now please keep Brian Herbert as way from the project as possible. He's a no talent hack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTJeff Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Dune is my favorite novel. Villeneuve is a great filmmaker, and he's probably one of the few guys out there who's take on this I'd want to see. However, the material from the books isn't very audience friendly for a big budget movie if they adapt it faithfully. It's not like Good vs. Evil in Lord of the Rings, where the heroes are most pure and innocent and virtuous characters who always try to do what's right and the bad guys are essentially evil incarnate. But I'm willing to see where this goes. However, even David Lynch took out some of the darker and edgier material from the original novel. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merkel Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 http://variety.com/2017/film/in-contention/playback-podcast-denis-villeneuve-arrival-1201982092/ At the 45 minute mark, he talks about Dune, calling it "the movie of his life" and a childhood dream. Before that he talks about Blade Runner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valonqar Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 He has the right sensibility to bring out more cerebral aspects of the novel. I still think this cannot be done as one movie. Split would be justified. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTJeff Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) On 2/10/2017 at 7:08 AM, Valonqar said: He has the right sensibility to bring out more cerebral aspects of the novel. I still think this cannot be done as one movie. Split would be justified. I agree. I think Villeneuve is one of the few directors who could get across the books' more cerebral, psychological and trippier aspects. However, I'm still skeptical they would do the movie without making major changes and altering a lot of what takes place. Dune is a cool sci-fi saga, but it's not like action-adventure of the week type stuff like Star Wars. It's not a PG-13 story. Edited February 12, 2017 by UTJeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valonqar Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 13 minutes ago, UTJeff said: I agree. I think Villeneuve is one of the few directors who could get across the books' more cerebral, psychological and trippier aspects. However, I'm still skeptical they would do the movie without making major changes and altering a lot of what takes place. Dune is a cool sci-fi saga, but it's not like action-adventure of the week type stuff like Star Wars. It's not a PG-13 story. Agree and that's why I don't expect it to become SW-size hit. It's going to be fairly big but it definitely isn't a 4 quadrant thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTJeff Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Honestly, I feel they'd be better off just doing it Game of Thrones style. Legendary acquired the TV rights as well FYI. IMHO, movie isn't necessarily the only way or even the best to adapt material. Just saying, if you are making a movie you are spending upwards of $150-$200 million, if not more, and you have to make compromises to the executives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Eric Roth is writing a draft. http://variety.com/2017/film/news/dune-reboot-writer-eric-roth-denis-villeneuve-1201998001/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valonqar Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) It's imperative that they are stingy with the budget cause this is not nearly as commercial as they think. Characters are very unlikable (the main hero basicially becomes a Space Bin Laden) , there are too many of them, plot is complicated, universe is complicated. It's a tough read let alone sit (Lynch, Sy Fy mini series) Edited April 5, 2017 by Valonqar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 You can't pull it off with a stingy budget. I disagree about the characters too, unless you're talking about later in the series (GOD EMPEROR, say). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) Be stingy with the budget and you have already lost. Do the opposite and you may succeed. Edited April 5, 2017 by Elessar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valonqar Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Tele Came Back said: You can't pull it off with a stingy budget. I disagree about the characters too, unless you're talking about later in the series (GOD EMPEROR, say). Children of Dune. The twins are insufferable menopausal dwarfs, Alia is more Baron than herself which is ridiculous, Duncan idaho is whatever (why does this guy gets cloned over and over?) and Paul is a limp dick. Blade Runner shows that Villeneuve can't keep the budget in check. Edited April 5, 2017 by Valonqar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, Valonqar said: Children of Dune. The twins are insufferable menopausal dwarfs, Alia is more Baron than herself which is ridiculous, Duncan idaho is whatever (why does this guy gets cloned over and over?) and Paul is a limp dick. Blade Runner shows that Villeneuve can't keep the budget in check. That's Book 3. Plenty of space for them to make several movies before they decide if they ever wanna deal with the loopier aspects of the saga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valonqar Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 I think that they'll just do Dune. It's the best book by far and I don't expect budget/profit ratio to be good enough for more movies. I think this will be the Mad Max situation. Not a flop but not a hit but good critical reception. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 1 hour ago, Valonqar said: Blade Runner shows that Villeneuve can't keep the budget in check. ? 1 hour ago, Valonqar said: It's imperative that they are stingy with the budget cause this is not nearly as commercial as they think. How do we know how commercial they think it is (I imagine they pooled interest of a large amount of people in every top market and have as good as an idea of the commercial appeal you can have and know that it is far from an automatic and that execution will be crucial), it is still one of most sold book of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valonqar Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 I hope they race-bend the smurf out of this movie. It's a lily white book but the characters don't have to be cause it really isn't important. So instead of usual fan casting, they go with Ashwaraya Rai, Idris Elba, Asian Fremen (their blue eyes are spice saturation anyway, they are not really blue), etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 1 minute ago, Valonqar said: I hope they race-bend the smurf out of this movie. It's a lily white book but the characters don't have to be cause it really isn't important. So instead of usual fan casting, they go with Ashwaraya Rai, Idris Elba, Asian Fremen (their blue eyes are spice saturation anyway, they are not really blue), etc. It's 8000 years in the future, you'd figure pretty much everyone would be blended into a nice multi-ethnic mix anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valonqar Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Tele Came Back said: It's 8000 years in the future, you'd figure pretty much everyone would be blended into a nice multi-ethnic mix anyway. Exactly. Everyone wrote characters as white in the 60s and 70s but that's not important for the plot. Robert Neville in IAL book is white but how many actors could keep one's attention alone on the screen? Big Willy, Denzel, Leo, Hanks and? So Smith was a perfect choice. Charisma trumped description and rightly so. Imagine 1 hour of only a charisma vacuum that fits the description and a dog. uh-oh. Edited April 8, 2017 by Valonqar 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Futurist Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Wonder if they will change some names or words because in the Lynch s films and I imagine the book, there are many references to Muslim holy wars aka Djihad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wild Eric Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 https://theplaylist.net/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-but-dune-20171109/ Still happening, and is his top priority. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...