Dune is set 10,190 years After Guild (AG) so more than 8,000 years. The timeline is uncertain but it's probably set at least 20,000 years hence. Also thinking machines are haram (taboo) so technology would have to adapt. Potentially, much knowledge was lost in the Butlerian Jihad 200 years Before Guild (BG).
I doubt we'll get an adaptation of Heretics of Dune. We'll be extremely lucky to get Dune Messiah. If WB were tempted to adapt BH&KJS's books first after Dune part 2, that would be a tragedy. There are a few good ideas in their stuff but it's mostly akin to bad fanfic that contradicts FH's novels. Their misinterpretation of the existential threat to the human race caused by the thinking machines is bad enough but there are equally, if not more, egregious examples.
That's something that's been at the back of my mind. While there's a lot of great stuff in later Dune novels, there's also some stuff that's goes right off the rails, IMO. If there are to be a string of Dune movies, I wouldn't mind if they start deviating from the books, but keep the basic narrative of a galactic jihad and the dangers of a cult of personality.
Sean Young was such an incredibly unFremen looking woman in my mind. Way too white and too clean and round a face
I know it's wrong for me to say this, but one of the memories that has stayed with me all this time when I saw the '84 Dune at the theatre is of some audience members laughing when Paul referred to Young's Chani as beautiful. As a kid at the time, I thought they were simply being mean, but in hindsight, some of them might have been reacting to the dialogue, the acting, or the movie in general...
The story still plays out essentially the same. To me spoilers are for things where the audience can't possibly know what is going to happen. Such as in the movie Titanic. The ship sinking is not a spoiler. What happens to Rose, Jack, and the Jewel would be. So sure, the unique scenes can be spoilers, but when you have a movie made from a book overall spoilers aren't possible. It is like the ship sinking in Titanic. People should know. So not a spoiler in my book. If they change the ending from the book or the 1984 movie to a third and unique ending, that would be worthy of spoilers, but that is part two. A lot of the fun in commenting on a movie adaption is how it is the same and differs from the book or other adaptions, both in terms of plot and in quality. From what I've seen this does not differ significantly in plot.
. Then go about posting whatever you want in thread titles and non spoiler threads and those of use who feel you can spoil a movie will report you to the mods and let them decide.
If God Emperor is not suitable for adaptation as a standalone movie - unless it's drastically altered in some way I can't imagine - then Heretics and Chapterhouse certainly are also. I've only read those last two once and I have never been eager to revisit them. Of course, Frank Herbert never got to complete his final book. All we have is the dreadful drivel of a conclusion by BH&KJA, Sandworms of Dune, that completely miss the point - whether deliberately or accidentally - and which contained at least four dei ex machina. I will never accept that Frank Herbert intended Daniel and Marty to be Omnius and Erasmus, even had he conceived of those latter two characters, which seems unlikely. If someone wants to turn BH&KJA's books into a TV series, I say have at it but I won't be watching to see Paul run off to join the space circus or Jongleurs, whatever.Hard to top Sci-Fi's Children of Dune, the finest work of TV sci-fi ever IMO. What I would have done to see MacAvoy as the God Emperor, he would have killed in the role! But as you say, GEOD would make for a poor movie, and straigh up probably a poor TV series as well. Imagine watching 3500+ years of people plotting against Leto II and failing!
If they want sequels to Dune a HBO mini-series is the best way to go. Dune is very cinematic, albeit hard to do. The next 3 books... less so.
No, they should not. My dad didn't.