I thought the Lynch film was really cool. I can't wait till it comes out on Blu-Ray. (Hopefully that'll be soon!) Although the Guild Navigators really freaked me out. 
Dune - To Be Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken)
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I am VERY happy to hear this news! Taken was a good film. I was concerned that the long delays and Berg's departure was going to put this back on the backburner. Are they going to use Josh Schwartz's draft? Or get a new writer? I hope we get this out before 2012 and I hope it's as good as the John Harrison mini-series' were.
Here are two trailers for From Paris With Love, if you want to see what the director of Taken does with a much bigger budget. Of course, upon seeing it, you'll either love that he's directing Dune or want to vomit. 
I think they're going to turn it into a big action/adventure movie and concentrate more on big space and ground battles. It'll follow the basic story of the novel, I'm sure, but I expect it to be more of a popcorn movie than previous efforts myself.
I was sort of excited when it was rumoured Niall Blomkamp was being considered for the director.
Now? Eh. I'll wait and see. Peter Berg's blithe comments about the movie being a muscular action/adventure epic came merely days before the announcement he was fired. I'd like to think that's not a coincidence, but I'm probably wrong.
Now? Eh. I'll wait and see. Peter Berg's blithe comments about the movie being a muscular action/adventure epic came merely days before the announcement he was fired. I'd like to think that's not a coincidence, but I'm probably wrong.
I don't think Berg was fired. He was just no longer available since he had other projects lined up that got prioritized over Dune.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Though the Lynch one is long and plodding, I can't shake that vision of the Dune universe from my head.
I'm 36 so that movie has that freebie that we give it in our youth where it felt more real, like space was really vast and this was the far, far future on a strange planet.
Much the same way that TOS feels more like it's happening far away in the reaches of space as compared to TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise. Not necesarily because it portrayed space better, but the way stuff seemed bigger and better when you're young.
Same for Star Wars and its prequels I guess.
I'm 36 so that movie has that freebie that we give it in our youth where it felt more real, like space was really vast and this was the far, far future on a strange planet.
Much the same way that TOS feels more like it's happening far away in the reaches of space as compared to TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise. Not necesarily because it portrayed space better, but the way stuff seemed bigger and better when you're young.
Same for Star Wars and its prequels I guess.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Robert Pattinson as Paul Atriedes
Carrie Ann Moss as Lady Jessica MILF
Liam Neeson as Duke Leto Atredies
Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Shaddam
George Wendt as Baron Harrkonnen
Seth Rogan as the Beast Rabban
And then we roll dice to see which remaining character(s) will be changed into minority roles.
Duncan Idaho will be a black man...because the character dies. Harry Lennix as either him or Gurney Halleck.
Carrie Ann Moss as Lady Jessica MILF
Liam Neeson as Duke Leto Atredies
Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Shaddam
George Wendt as Baron Harrkonnen
Seth Rogan as the Beast Rabban
And then we roll dice to see which remaining character(s) will be changed into minority roles.
Duncan Idaho will be a black man...because the character dies. Harry Lennix as either him or Gurney Halleck.
i still like the original, but there is much that could be done better.
haha, about a year ago i was wasting time looking through the DvD section at Best-Buy, saw Dune there and without paying much attention to the packaging picked it up just for the hell of it. later when i made it to the register (luckily the attendant had a bit of taste, and also lacked much tact...
) but he looked up before he scanned the bar-code and asked me "are you sure you want this? you know this one is the sequel right."
i wasnt even aware there was one, and after looking it over more closely i decided to still purchase it anyway. i wish i had taken his advice...
What the hell is this about the constant stream of Dune remakes? Can't they ever get it RIGHT?
haha, about a year ago i was wasting time looking through the DvD section at Best-Buy, saw Dune there and without paying much attention to the packaging picked it up just for the hell of it. later when i made it to the register (luckily the attendant had a bit of taste, and also lacked much tact...
) but he looked up before he scanned the bar-code and asked me "are you sure you want this? you know this one is the sequel right."i wasnt even aware there was one, and after looking it over more closely i decided to still purchase it anyway. i wish i had taken his advice...
Probably because at its heart it wants very much to be the novel, and Lynch's bizarre sensibilities are a surprisingly good fit for the material. Really aside from the Harkonnens I don't have any problems with Lynch's film aurally and visually, it's just a disjointed mess. I can't see anyone improving upon it, though.
That's not too bad a list. Haven't seen Pattinson in anything, though, so I can't comment on his effectiveness as an actor. It's a little top-heavy with name actors, but then, so go all fan lists. Wendt and Rogen do suggest playing the Harkonnens for comedy, though, which I'd rather avoid.
He's not an actor.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
My list was mostly a joke, though the way directors work with the same actors again and again (Scorsese and DiCaprio, Burton and Depp), Liam Neeson wouldn't surprise me.
Dune can't be compressed into a two hour film... and the studio will probably interfere with this one until the cows come home. I'm not exactly excited about another adaptation.
Pattinson was a guy I think Berg half-jokingly suggested for the role. I know he gets a lot of flack for his starring role in the Twilight films (justifiably, for all I know) but maybe he's got something. After all I though the similarly maligned Zac Efron was good in Me and Orson Welles.
Look, Paul is 15 in the novel. They either get a total unknown or cast some promising young star, though damned if I know any.
And he really would not be a bad call. May not be who I'd pick (though I can't get Jurgen Prochnow out of my head for whatever reason) but I'd roll with Qui-Gon.
Look, Paul is 15 in the novel. They either get a total unknown or cast some promising young star, though damned if I know any.
And he really would not be a bad call. May not be who I'd pick (though I can't get Jurgen Prochnow out of my head for whatever reason) but I'd roll with Qui-Gon.
John Schneider as Duke Leto, Annette O'Toole as Lady Jessica, and Tom Welling as Paul. 
haha, about a year ago i was wasting time looking through the DvD section at Best-Buy, saw Dune there and without paying much attention to the packaging picked it up just for the hell of it. later when i made it to the register (luckily the attendant had a bit of taste, and also lacked much tact...
i wasnt even aware there was one, and after looking it over more closely i decided to still purchase it anyway. i wish i had taken his advice...
I'm not quite sure what you ended up getting from this description. The Scifi mini Children of Dune is the only thing I can think of which qualifies as a "sequel", and frankly it's the best on-screen realization of the Dune universe to date: It has most of the strengths of the 2000 miniseries, but with a decent budget.
When I first looked at this thread, given the context with all the talk about Sci-Fi's Dune mini I thought that this guy directed that horrible Taken miniseries that Spielberg produced! I don't have a horse in the Dune race so to speak, but just the memory of the Taken mini horrifies me to this day. What a boring turd.
35 here and I love Lynch's take, esp the extended DVD version. I've seen part of the mini-series, and thought it did benefit from having more breathing room, but honestly what I think it would take to properly tell the story is a tv series. The new BSG was often called a novel for television by many folks, and I think Dune is another type of story that would greatly benefit from the expanded breathing room. Even a 13 episode run of hour long eps would probably cover it.
Robert Pattinson as Paul Atriedes
Carrie Ann Moss as Lady Jessica MILF
Liam Neeson as Duke Leto Atredies
Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Shaddam
George Wendt as Baron Harrkonnen
Seth Rogan as the Beast Rabban
And then we roll dice to see which remaining character(s) will be changed into minority roles.
Duncan Idaho will be a black man...because the character dies. Harry Lennix as either him or Gurney Halleck.
FEYD (Woody Harrleson) What's shaking Baron?
BARON (George Wendt) All four cheeks and a couple of chins.
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