Dune Part 2 2023 (24, 25, 26...)

[kirk55555]

One of the many reasons that the Dune/Children of Dune mini series are, and will remain, the definitive live action adaptations of the first three Dune books is that nobody minded covering up the actors faces in those productions.

They were also better written then the latest movie, better acted, much more faithful to the books and didn't worship Lynch's pile of crap like the new movie does, but having actors that weren't too big to cover their damn faces is definitely a big positive.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

One of the many reasons that the Dune/Children of Dune mini series are, and will remain, the definitive live action adaptations of the first three Dune books is that nobody minded covering up the actors faces in those productions.

They were also better written then the latest movie, better acted, much more faithful to the books and didn't worship Lynch's pile of crap like the new movie does, but having actors that weren't too big to cover their damn faces is definitely a big positive.

The acting in the early seasons is usual Sci-fi channel level terrible and only rescued by a young McAvoy.
The art direction was awful even allowing for the low budget.
A miniseries has more time to play with so a better fit for the type of book readers who cry about every little dull moment that gets cut like Gurneys pointless balicet or the utterly boring Tom Bombadil but the miniseries of Dune was nowhere near as good as a whole.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Pointless baliset? As if!

Otherwise, I agree.

 

[Set Harth]

The acting in the early seasons is usual Sci-fi channel level terrible and only rescued by a young McAvoy.

Early seasons? It was only one season, three episodes.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Early seasons? It was only one season, three episodes.

Well seeing as I mentioned McAvoy I was including the second season. Sorry if my wording was a little off.

If we are just talking about "Dune" then I would say it's all pretty crap and it's only saving grace is it didn't have stupid things like weirding devices or pugs.

 

[Set Harth]

Well seeing as I mentioned McAvoy I was including the second season. Sorry if my wording was a little off.

There was no second season. Technically McAvoy was in all three parts.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

There was no second season. Technically McAvoy was in all three parts.

There is Dune:The Miniseries with 3 episodes and Children of Dune which had 3 also. McAvoy was only in Children was he not.
The post I had responded to was talking about the 2 together and so am I.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert's_Dune
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert's_Children_of_Dune

 

[JD]

Children of Dune was a totally separate production, not the second season of an ongoing series.

 

[Set Harth]

There is Dune:The Miniseries with 3 episodes and Children of Dune which had 3 also. McAvoy was only in Children was he not.
The post I had responded to was talking about the 2 together and so am I.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert's_Dune
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert's_Children_of_Dune

OK, I see it now.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Children of Dune was a totally separate production, not the second season of an ongoing series.

Just made by the same people about the same universe and a story that is a direct continuation.

 

[Reverend]

Just made by the same people about the same universe and a story that is a direct continuation.

Exactly. That's literally how a mini-series works, especially with literary adaptations with more than one entry. You make one, you put it out. Maybe you'll get commissioned for a second, maybe not. Depends how the first one did. Much more in common with a movie sequel than a season of television. Remember there was a three year gap in production of the two series and several key positions were switched out, not least of which the cinematographer and I think the production designer (to say nothing of recasting a key role.)

I mean think about it; if we go by the logic you suggest; 'The Pacific' is just 'Band of Brothers: Season 2', which would obviously be stupid.

 

[Set Harth]

The director was also different!

 

[DigificWriter]

@TimeIsAPredator Miniseries are dramatically different entities than TV series and their component installments are not referred to using the Season or Series terms the way that the component installments of a TV series are.

That is why the BSG TV series from 2004 is listed as only having consisted of 4 seasons and 76 episodes despite being a direct continuation of the BSG 2-part miniseries that was broadcast in 2003.

 

[wayoung]

Microsoft announced a Dune Flight Simulator expansion tie in to the new movie

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[wayoung]

Dune: Awakening interview and footage from PC Gamers PC Gamer show

https://www.pcgamer.com/dune-awaken...nd-and-intense-than-you-would-find-in-an-mmo/

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Yes that's what I got from the books as well. There wasn't a rise of a certain form of technology that started a war, it's just that most people begin to distrust the direction in which AI technology was going, and they fought a war to prevent further development of such technology; and after the war codified that such technology was outlawed except for one planet, Ix.

Computer tech (smart or dumb) isn't made on Ix or by the Ixaians, just devices that are close to a computer without really being one; however, in Dune: House Atredies, it was the making of a fighting mek that reacts to your movements and the making of a Guild Heighliner with fifteeen percent more carrying space, as well as the inciting to riot of their slave class, the suboids, by the Teliaxu over the building of said Heighliners, and the need for research space for the Teliaxu to make artificial spice, that led to House Vernius being overthrown, with an invented reason of their 'violating' the Butlerian Jihad simply because they make complex machines non-Ixians think are computers.

 

[wayoung]

New trailer for Futurama shows a Dune parody on the way

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[The Nth Doctor]

Like I said in the Futurama thread, I hope with Al Gore.

Damn, now I want Al Gore in the second film.

 

[Marc]

New trailer for Futurama shows a Dune parody on the way

the parody must flow

 

[wayoung]

Looks like an all out war against Worms, maybe Shai Hulud is their big weapon.