Just read here on imdb that Legendary Pictures has bought the rights to Frank Herbert's Dune. And a few months earlier, I read that Denis Villeneuve wants to adapt Dune into a big-budget sci-fi film. Now that Arrival is a sizable hit and Villeneuve is doing Blade Runner 2. Would you want Villeneuve to adapt Dune?
What is the Goal of the life? It is to create yourself a Soul
~Alejandro Jodorowsky
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While Villaneuve has proven to be a decent sci-di filmmaker, I've long held the belief that David Fincher would make a perfect Dune picture.
I also believe that the only way to do it right would be to split the first book up into three movies. The first one would involve young Paul and end at the point where he and Jessica have their first encounter with the fremen after escaping into the desert. The second movie would entail Paul's growth with the fremen and becoming the Kwisatz Haderach. The third picture would be the war with the worms and house harkonnen.
Also- Daniel Craig for Gurney
I still have yet to watch Fincher's Alien3, but I have it on DVD and I hear it is quite good. However, I have seen his stuff on Stiegg Larsson and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and he is a very good director. Also, I like the idea of Daniel Craig for Gurney Halleck and I love your idea on how to do the movie as a three-parter like The Hobbit. It could be done Peter Jackson-style and have it in long theatrical cuts and extended home release cuts. I really hope that the producers do Dune that way.
What is the Goal of the life? It is to create yourself a Soul
~Alejandro Jodorowsky
I hope they're entertaining.
shareDune would be better served being made into a TV series by HBO.
shareIf HBO made Dune into a show. You can bet on two things:
1. It'd be pretty good - despite gratuitous nudity
2. A Lot of ill informed half-wits will call it a sci-fi rip off of Game of Thrones
I'm rather excited about the prospect of a new production of Dune - We'll always have the imperfect Lynch film (Alan Smithee?) and the decent, yet poorly cast miniseries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2uOzV4glRs
Dune is a grand story that needs to be told in grand scale. It deserves to be seen on a big screen, made by audacious storytellers and filmmakers, not relegated to an intimate, episodic, at-home experience.
shareBlade Runner 1's director is who I wanted to do Dune for years. I think Blade Runner directing is a sign of 'competency' to direct Dune, but I'll need to see BR2 before I can approve of Villeneuve.
Dune, if done right, is 10x better than Star Wars. Unfortunately, if it is true to the book, then it will not attract the audiences of Star Wars. Way too heady for the common filmgoer. I'm not saying it is truly awe-inspiring literature, but it has a lot more going for it than your average Star Wars script or book.
It would have to be split up into 2 films or so, or clock at around 3-4 hours.
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