like if they say "we wanted to make sure we got the sandworms juuuust right", it's gonna suck, badly
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 2 February 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
let lynch do it again
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
trailer better have exactly zero BRAAAAMMMMS in itif there's a BRAAAAAMMMM with sandworms coming out of the ground trying to eat an ornithopter then basically, fuck everything
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link
haha you know that's exactly what it's going to be like
― the late great, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
It'll be told from the sandworms' POV
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
ryan gosling running towards the screen, jumping, the sound DROPS OUT, he grabs onto a vehicle escaping, a sandworm JUMPS out of the ground behind him, jaws snapping (and a second, smaller but lengthier jaw snapping after him ever closer), and that "dying engine" sound kinda comes up on the soundtrack.
title card
DUNE
tagline -- some things were never meant to be unearthed
― nomar, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link
SPICE
MUST
FLOW
coming summer 2019
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link
Uh.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-new-dune-movie-is-being-written-by-the-man-who-wrot-1794046167
Variety reports that Eric Roth, who won an Oscar for his adapted screenplay for Forrest Gump, has been hired to adapt the Frank Herbert novel Dune for director Denis Villeneuve. Roth also wrote The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Insider, Munich, Ali, and many, many more. So even though you say the words “Forrest Gump” and some people get nauseous, Roth is still a writer who is respected and has worked with some of the best filmmakers of all time: Fincher, Mann, Spielberg, and Zemeckis, just to name a few.This is good news.
This is good news.
Is it now.
Even if Roth has previously only written one science fiction film: Kevin Costner’s The Postman.
IS IT GOOD NEWS NOW.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
to be fair, i suspect most of the problems with the postman were caused by costner's ego
i'm more concerned that this guy's track record suggests we'll end up with a solidly middlebrow dune which won't satisfy anyone. what's the point in a dune which isn't batshit?!
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
"...and Brad Pitt as Leto."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
when I think of the best guy to helm a mushroom fueled sci fi epic I think of the dude who wrote forrest gump
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
nerds everywhere increasingly ambivalent
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
we're talking Robocop remake ambivalent
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 April 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
I note that this fellow, who is indeed an industry pro (to a fault, perhaps) also wrote The Horse Whisperer and The Concorde...Airport 79.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 April 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link
I feel like if Blade Runner 2049 bombs maybe this doesn't have to happen
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 July 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
At least not with that screenwriter either.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 July 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
Well, it's still happening and...this is actually a smart idea.
https://www.avclub.com/denis-villeneuve-says-hes-now-making-two-dune-movies-1823660070
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
this guy started out so promisingly, and now it's nerdstuff til he's done
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
Gotta get paid. To be fair this is top tier nerd stuff, imo.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
nertz to that, other filmmakers alternate lucre with arthouse
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
Kinda having it both ways simultaneously now. As much as you can for Mega Budget sci fi. I’m glad he’s around and doing these things.
― circa1916, Saturday, 10 March 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
LONG LIVE THE CHALAMET
Timothee Chalamet (@RealChalamet) in talks to star in Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' https://t.co/CLKsqLD7jV pic.twitter.com/k6r8WvadDU— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 16, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
I'm trying to think of who they could cast to plausibly lose a duel to T.C. Paul Dano?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 July 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Smart move
I have just received Draft #4 of the DUNE screenplay from Legendary Pictures. This is for the first movie, covering approximately half of the novel DUNE. I'm very excited and pleased about this, and I'm beginning to burn the midnight oil. pic.twitter.com/nIfgb2zJ2J— Brian Herbert (@DuneAuthor) July 23, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
Feel like Brian Herbert being very excited and pleased about the dune screenplay is a bad sign.
― Dan I., Thursday, 26 July 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
Oh my god yes, get him away from it!"DuneAuthor" as his Twitter handle, what a nerve.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 26 July 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
If I wanted to read the Dune series should I stop at Chapterhouse or are their post Frank Herbert books worth reading?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 July 2018 03:34 (six years ago) link
The consensus is that the post-FH books are pretty weak fanfic at best. Certainly when I picked one of them up in a bookstore I found the writing cringeworthy, and apparently the stories are not much chop ("you know how they ended up banning thinking machines? well here's a story where a thinking machine went bad and t was bad for humanity so they fought back and outlawed them").
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 26 July 2018 04:42 (six years ago) link
Ok so basically like ‘Solo’ then, got it, thanks.
I never got further than ‘Children’ and that was years ago. I wouldn’t mind revisiting them.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 July 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
I think I have about 150 pages or so left to read in Chapterhouse Dune. I stopped reading it about 20 years ago, every once in a while I have the urge to go back and finish it. I still have the book on the bookshelf with the bookmark where I stopped.
― silverfish, Thursday, 26 July 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
Dave Bautista as Beast Rabban
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dave-bautista-joins-timoth-e-chalamet-denis-villeneuves-dune-1174273
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
(Kinda brilliant, really -- that was the only role I could guess would work for him and behold. Also enough of a blank slate character in the book that they can really go to town.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
And Stellan Skarsgard as Baron Harkonnen
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/stellan-skarsg-play-villain-legendarys-dune-1174870
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
This cast is getting more and more interesting by the day. Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/charlotte-rampling-joins-timothee-chalamet-dune-1176429
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:57 (five years ago) link
I saw the Lynch version for the first time last year and was surprised to find that it was a faithful and fairly straight-ahead adaptation of the book, hampered by apparently not having shot enough scenes, or else having had the connective tissue edited out by the studio and replaced by voiceover in a panic
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
anyway I'll watch this for Timothee
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:08 (five years ago) link
Herbert’s characterization beyond Paul and Jessica is pretty light,- even everyone’s favorite character, Duncan Idaho is barely in the book, so there’s a lot that casting can bring to the table. I like it so far.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
somebody should write this up
― stuck in the Lidl with EU (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
Oscar Isaac potentially in as Leto.
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/oscar-isaac-dune-reboot-1203109822/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
the first mildly enticing detail of this farrago tbh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Οὖτις in as a Sam Elliottesque narrator.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
“Now this big ol’ dusty planet wasn’t the kind of place folks were fit to survive on...”
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
Sometimes the you ride the warm, and sometimes the warm rides you.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
There were a lot of scenes filmed that were cut from the theatrical release - the wiki page gets into some of the details. Of all the cut scenes I've always been hoping that the banquet scene would resurface. It's somewhere out there sitting in a vault - I saw some stills at the 1984 Worldcon promo presentation about three months before the release.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
with Count Fenring and the rest of that? that'd be great- i reread the book recently and forgot all about that part of it.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
in the book paul is like some suburban white kid's wet dream, total mary sue, and harkonnen is so cartoonishly evil that he comes off as parody... with that being said, the world building is fantastic enough to justify adaptations. i think this movie could really be great if the characters get fleshed out. cast is promising, fingers crossed
― boobie, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
Not confirmed but...interesting rumor.
http://collider.com/zendaya-dune-reboot
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
all the stunt casting that’s engineered to elicit a twitter response isn’t going to change the fact that Villeneuve is gonna make this movie with all the personality of a loaf of Wonder Bread https://t.co/Md8VsfoBbR— Awards Tse-son (@CarmanTse) January 30, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 January 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
Kinda true, that.
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 31 January 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
If Deakins shoots it, I'll just enjoy the view.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
gilliams lens makes it worse than the plot tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 March 2024 09:56 (six months ago) link
it was horrifying and i’ll never watch it again but it was an interesting contrast to pan’s labyrinth in that both dealt with children dealing with unimaginable horrors, but tideland really felt like it was _her_ story told by herself (i don’t know if it would be tolerable told in any other way) while labyrinth felt very much like an adult telling the story.
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 31 March 2024 17:14 (six months ago) link
There's some fun in it too, I recall Jodelle Ferland being good in it (she will be 30 this year, how is that possible? I'm turning to corpsedust)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 20:54 (six months ago) link
Tideland is much older than I thought. Ferland has mostly been in horror films and television
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 21:00 (six months ago) link
Saw the first film for the first time yesterday, really liked it. It was all good and didn’t feel like it was as long as it was. Easily my favourite part was when the desert mouse is shown and our small tortoiseshell cat froze and stared at the screen and tried to get a better look. 10/10 motion capture, obviously.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:16 (six months ago) link
Rewatched it last night in anticipation of seeing the second part. I enjoyed it more, probably in part because I watched it on a TV with good sound as opposed to my iPad with headphones. It's visually stunning, and even if it's mostly vibes, well, so is the book (which I now need to read for the fifth (?) time).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:21 (six months ago) link
i dont mean to gripe but if ever movies needed watching at the cinema its these
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 April 2024 15:32 (six months ago) link
Thanks be to Odeon Luxe reclining seats in respect to that.
― nashwan, Monday, 1 April 2024 15:42 (six months ago) link
i was hoping 1 would have gotten a general theatrical re-release but if it did I missed it. I would not mind wasting an entire day watching these back to back in a theater.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 1 April 2024 15:53 (six months ago) link
otm. they did put part 1 back in theaters briefly, but at least in my area it was over & done with a week or two before part 2 came out, so there was no chance to double feature them, which was frustrating.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 1 April 2024 16:03 (six months ago) link
I finally saw Dune part 1 on an airplane, surely not the ideal viewing configuration, but it exceeded my somewhat modest expectations. I loved the book as a young sci-fi fan, and enjoyed the Lynch film. This version is perhaps better. It does a good job of finding the core of the story and building suspense in the right places. The pacing seemed about right. It wasn't as ponderous as I had been led to believe.
― o. nate, Monday, 1 April 2024 16:09 (six months ago) link
here was actually surprisingly little up-close spice-related action or even conversation
― mark s, Saturday, October 23, 2021 3:36 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
kind of weird to adapt dune and barely touch on melange
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:36 (five months ago) link
well there was a lot of different things mixed in there tbf
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:53 (five months ago) link
Melange definitely better than her sister Beyonce
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:42 (five months ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-inspired-by-dune-13th-march-2024
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:29 (five months ago) link
^^^ music inspired by the book
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:30 (five months ago) link
Saw the first film on Netflix a couple of days ago. Initial thought is this would've annoyed me if there was no sequel. It literally fucking stops.
Will watch the followup if it's still playing somewhere. Imagine waiting years for this. Not me mate
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:47 (five months ago) link
The music was very funny when the subs were trying to convey..
Low tense musicTense musicDramatic musicLoud dramatic musicYodelling
Now forget but I wanted to make a poll on these
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:49 (five months ago) link
amazing issue to take with a movie that has sequels baked in but yeah ok
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:07 (five months ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:52 (five months ago) link
The music in the first film is probably the closest I can think of to a film using the score as pure sound effects.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:26 (five months ago) link
eraserhead is the original dune the movie
― mark s, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:28 (five months ago) link
god emperor leto ii: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603aa393a223fc1ceb1a5cf8/1622405909416-0ZCXOILXPS34DV6QDHUT/Babyraserhead.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:29 (five months ago) link
what we need is prequels
“i don't like sand. it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere”
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:28 (five months ago) link
I finally finished this and was surprised that Feyd was not also a skarsgard, because the actor was doing a pretty good skarsgard impression, and made me wish Jessie Armstrong had adapted Dune as the next season of Succession.Also, House Skarsgard sounds like a credible Dune faction.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:45 (five months ago) link
Zendaya and Timothee - bad actors, zero chemistry for their great love that ends in betrayalall the charismatic actors from the first one are dead (papa Atreides, Khal Drogo, the Dr from Strange New Worlds) or sidelined to glower and yell (Rebecca Ferguson)the Harkonnens and Emperor just let all 500k mujahideen roll up 100 yards away from the emperor's ship because they couldn't see them over a hill?whole lot of dragging in the middle - could have either been an hour shorter or split into three normal length movies
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 May 2024 04:03 (four months ago) link
the gladiator scene with the lesser Harkonnen who looks like an extra from Fury Road - oh you tried to KILL ME by... not completely drugging one of the guys who's been in a dungeon for months. Seems more like changing the video game difficulty from rookie to easy IMO than a real test
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 May 2024 04:13 (four months ago) link
Wasn’t that kind of the point tho
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 May 2024 05:29 (four months ago) link
Lesser Harkonnen seemed pretty serious about it and that was his rite of passage to take over from Drax
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 May 2024 05:36 (four months ago) link
It was political theatre tho, like yeah he was supposed to make a big show if it but it wasn’t a CONTEST it was a SHOW, like Barron Trump “running” in 2032.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 May 2024 06:00 (four months ago) link
Hard agree that Ferguson got the short end of the stick this time around. She deserves better than to look arresting & spew portents.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 May 2024 06:01 (four months ago) link
Zendaya and Timothee - bad actors, zero chemistry for their great love that ends in betrayal
The ending was hilarious.
"Sorry, love of my life, gotta marry this white girl for politics, you understand...you'll be sticking around for the holy war, though, right?"
*Zendaya makes her default pissed-off face, leaves to catch the bus*
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 02:55 (four months ago) link
I think it would be cool if they did special editions of these with extra scenes, if they exist. The second one in particular feels like it had a bunch of stuff chopped out, everything happens very abruptly.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 03:57 (four months ago) link
Sure, but it'll have been chopped out at the "getting the book down to two films" stage of writing, I'd expect.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 07:23 (four months ago) link
Denis says “non”: https://collider.com/dune-deleted-scenes-denis-villeneuve/
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 07:50 (four months ago) link
Really enjoyed the second film. This might actually get me to reread the book for the first time in like 25 years.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 08:21 (four months ago) link
milo z so otm about this. what a drag! pretty to look at, but man not much there for me
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:22 (four months ago) link
Watched this last night in the cinema at a pretty well stuff screening given that its been released months ago! Its kinda impressive.
Anyway, by the end of this Chani is like an exiled communist at the end of a partially successful Islamic revolution.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 May 2024 07:11 (four months ago) link