Posted on 09/20/2020 5:14:36 PM PDT by tbw2
I heard the news of a “Dune” remake due out in 2020. I saw the endless comparisons to the disastrous movie that came out in 1984. Sting goes shirtless! Picard is a warrior! The ending nullifies the entire freaking point of the book by making the deliberately bred super-human and culturally manipulative character magically conjure rain.
The interesting chasm I discovered was when I said in response to this news, “Another Dune remake?” To which others said, “What other Dune movie?” I know Syfy has made a number of B-list sci-fi movies, but their Dune remakes a decade ago were works of art.
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The sleeper has awakened.
I couldn't agree more. The SyFy series will be the benchmark on how I grade the new movie.
I heard about it, then watched the preview.
Paul Atreides looks effeminate, like a soy boy. Don’t like it.
I liked the three part series that came out in 2000. Wasn’t perfect, but I liked it. Didn’t like the movie with Sting.
I subject it is infected by social justice given that they gender-swapped Liet Kynes.
“disastrous movie that came out in 1984.”
WTF?
You need to be REALLY high, and then watch it.
The Floating Fat Man is mind blowing.
The Beast.
Alicia Witt, before Hallmark.
Young and smoking hot Francesca Annis.
Draft Spaten and some Kona Gold in yer Hookah
I am sure they will do a fine job of the special effects, but things like the casting of Liet Kynes as a black woman just pisses me off and makes me not want to see it.
Apologists may rationalize it and say Liet Kynes is a bit part, but I am someone who would see it because I read the book.
Fidelity means something to me. It isn’t that they cast a black woman, I would be just as irritated if they had cast a young white boy or Asian woman. It was a white man in the book.
Why would they change for any reason other than pandering?
get woke go broke.
This is dead before it even starts.
I liked Francesca in Partners In Crime.
Always a different hat it seemed.
I wish more classic sci-fi novel series would get a high end tv series treatment today. The right way to do something like Dune, the Demon Princes or the Berserker series isn’t a movie in 2020. Or in the case of Dune a pair of movies.
Of course trusting them not to make random characters homosexual for no reason beyond ‘inclusion’ would be asking a lot. So on the other hand maybe it’s better they stay away.
Freegards
LOL! Loved the book but that flick.... and directed by David Lynch too.
Modern politics wouldn’t allow the evil Baron to be homosexual, either.
My question is that whoever is playing Feyd Rautha isn’t listed in the cast, so is the character not even in the movie? Seems weird as he’s Paul’s foil.
They’ve been out of original ideas for years. Can only make re-makes now.
Looks good. I’m looking forward to it. But they cast Imperial Planetologist Liet Kynes a woman. I don’t know how the purists will react/are reacting to it.
FWIW, I enjoyed David Lynch’s movie from the 80’s, even though it felt incomplete and rushed. The two Sci-Fi Channel miniseries from the early 00’s covering the first trilogy I thought well done on balance—even excellent in places—despite the cheap production and uneven casting. I like it better than Peter Jackson’s treatment of Tolkie’s material.
The documentary called “Jadarworky’s DUNE” that was released some years back was also very entertaining and enlightening concerning the efforts he and others made in getting Frank Herbert’s book to the big screen.
The mini-series was a great format. I wish they’d bring it back, and don’t understand why in this day of “binge watching” they haven’t.
I thought it would have been the perfect way to do the Hunger Games. The movies, while they conveyed some aspects of the story well, made my feel that if I hadn’t have read the books I wouldn’t have understood what was going on.
I think that the young Actor who playing Paul Atreidies is perfect for the job. If you’ve read the book, you will know that Paul was a 15 year old boy when he came to Arakkis. The actor who’s playing him looks young enough to do so.
The director of this film is working with modern technology, and a blockbuster budget. It’s going to be 2 films, and we might actually be able to see the world of Dune the way that Frank Herbert imagined it.
.yeah, I’m looking forward to it. But, I don’t know how well anybody could pull it off. So much of Dune takes place inside the the character’s heads, the inner monologues, that it’s hard to translate to the screen Lynch tried to use voiceovers but it didn’t really work. I hope they get the Baron right. I didn’t think either of the previous efforts did the Baron well. Lynch made him this buffoonish cartoon character and the Sci-Fy version was too laid back. He’s a great villain and key to getting the story right.
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