So apparently they are doing a comic adaptation of the the first third of Dune that came out this week.
Dune 2018 (19,20,21...)
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$35 CAD?!? Why, that's like $4.50 US! Outrageous!
(Just kidding - definitely WAY too high...)
(Just kidding - definitely WAY too high...)
"Adapted by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson"?
Thanks...I hate it.
Also, has anyone seen the art of it? Oof! Don't get me wrong, the artists themselves are competent enough, but this is 'Dune'; it should rate quite a bit more than just competent. Get someone who can handle avant-garde, epic scope and subtle character drawing. This smacks of minimum expense on the part of The Estate to cash in on the movie.
Thanks...I hate it.
Also, has anyone seen the art of it? Oof! Don't get me wrong, the artists themselves are competent enough, but this is 'Dune'; it should rate quite a bit more than just competent. Get someone who can handle avant-garde, epic scope and subtle character drawing. This smacks of minimum expense on the part of The Estate to cash in on the movie.
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They said they didn’t change anything.
Pfft.
I picked up my McFarlane figures on Wed but haven't posted about them because, honestly, I haven't even opened the box they are in yet, for reasons posted in the Misc. forum. They're in a box in the living room. The 4 reg, the Baron wasn't included. Still waiting for my Amazon order to come in before I decide which ones I'm opening and which I'm leaving boxed.
now being reported that Dune along with a number of other big films will get a simultaneous cinema and streaming release next year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12...s-to-hbo-max-us-cinemas-at-same-time/12949876
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12...s-to-hbo-max-us-cinemas-at-same-time/12949876
When I separated from my wife I left pretty much everything I owned at the house.
A couple months ago I asked my Ex for my Dune DVDS before the movie "came out". This was when the date was still Dec 18th, and while I was sure it was going to move I figured, whatever, better to ask for them and have them than not ask for them and not have them.
Last Tuesday she dropped off all my Dune DVD's and Dune books, along with a bunch of other DVDs and some books she thought I might want to read, at a mutual friends house.
That night our house burned to the ground.
So pretty much the only thing that survived the fire that destroyed every item that belonged to my past self are my various copies of Dune.
That was also the day the McFarlane Dune figures arrived for me to pick up from the local comic book shop, which I haven't had the heart to open yet.
A couple months ago I asked my Ex for my Dune DVDS before the movie "came out". This was when the date was still Dec 18th, and while I was sure it was going to move I figured, whatever, better to ask for them and have them than not ask for them and not have them.
Last Tuesday she dropped off all my Dune DVD's and Dune books, along with a bunch of other DVDs and some books she thought I might want to read, at a mutual friends house.
That night our house burned to the ground.
So pretty much the only thing that survived the fire that destroyed every item that belonged to my past self are my various copies of Dune.
That was also the day the McFarlane Dune figures arrived for me to pick up from the local comic book shop, which I haven't had the heart to open yet.
Frank Herbert's son, Brian, visited the set and declared this to be "The definitive adaptation/"
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/frank-herbert-son-visited-dune-181210656.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/frank-herbert-son-visited-dune-181210656.html
Yeah, he says this everytime a new piece of news regarding the movie comes out. Pretty sure you'll find some variety of the same quote at least three different times since the Empire magazine covers.
Keep in mind he is a producer in the film AND "co-authored" the tie in graphic novel, and the HBO series following up the film, if it is successful, is based on his novel.
This isn't me bad mouthing the movie - I have high hopes. I'm just saying his future financial security is based on the success of this movie, so he'd be saying the same thing even if he hated it.
Keep in mind he is a producer in the film AND "co-authored" the tie in graphic novel, and the HBO series following up the film, if it is successful, is based on his novel.
This isn't me bad mouthing the movie - I have high hopes. I'm just saying his future financial security is based on the success of this movie, so he'd be saying the same thing even if he hated it.
Yeah, Brian Herbert isn't exactly what you'd call an ideal judge of what constitutes the definitive anything when it comes to adapting his father's work. He'd be equally as enthusiastic about it if the movie is just two hours of a blancmange slowly drying up in the noonday sun, so long as there's a royalties check in it for him.
One of the reasons the rights were in limbo after the Morel film failed was that Brian, via the Herbert Partnership, wanted House Atreides to be adapted as the next movie, not Dune. I still believe the HBO max series being based on Sisterhood was the compromise that allowed this version to be made. Brian gets his books adapted as a prestige HBO show, and Warner Brothers gets to make the movie they wanted to make.
Meh, Brian Herbert called the 2000 miniseries "the definitive adaptation" back in the day and before that he tried to make his Dune novels consistent with the Lynch movie.
Such a weird choice making Lynch's diseased Baron "canon" in his and KJA's novels.
Yet, not the weirdest choice in those books.
