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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 (six years ago)
(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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
somebody should write this up
― stuck in the Lidl with EU (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 03:37 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
the first mildly enticing detail of this farrago tbh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:34 (six years ago)
Οὖτις in as a Sam Elliottesque narrator.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:40 (six years ago)
“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 (six years ago)
Sometimes the you ride the warm, and sometimes the warm rides you.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:53 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
Not confirmed but...interesting rumor.
http://collider.com/zendaya-dune-reboot
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 21:30 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
Kinda true, that.
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 31 January 2019 23:12 (six years ago)
If Deakins shoots it, I'll just enjoy the view.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2019 23:49 (six years ago)
Deakins is not involved
― Number None, Friday, 1 February 2019 08:48 (six years ago)
Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/josh-brolin-joins-timothee-chalamet-dune-1186144
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:11 (six years ago)
he may be ugly enough, but is he lumpy enough?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:19 (six years ago)
josh brolin is hansy imo
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:20 (six years ago)
Gurney NOT ugly enough and NOT lumpy enough—Dune certified rotten!!!
― Dan I., Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:24 (six years ago)
And Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho!
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/jason-momoa-dune-reboot-legendary-1203140272/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:35 (six years ago)
My favorite thing about "Dune"? There's a character named DUNCAN IDAHO.
Was Herbert munching on breakfast one morning, glancing sleepily at some boxes on the kitchen counter: mashed potato mix here, cake mix there...? "AHAAA!!"
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:53 (six years ago)
Momoa angling for a multi picture deal
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 15 February 2019 01:18 (six years ago)
God preserve us from the sequels
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Friday, 15 February 2019 01:19 (six years ago)
Bro of Dune
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2019 01:57 (six years ago)
I remember a party in college where my wasted sci-fi nerd cousin learned our friend Duncan was moving to Idaho and lost his shit and nobody else knew what he was talking about or why he was yelling DUNCAN...IDAHO! at everyone.
― joygoat, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:23 (six years ago)
Release date
Spice is life. Denis Villeneuve's DUNE, starring everyone who's anyone in Hollywood, drops Nov. 20, 2020 and will be available in IMAX & 3D.— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) February 16, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 February 2019 02:34 (six years ago)
ok now that they got the cast out of the way, who's doing the production design?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 16 February 2019 02:59 (six years ago)
Cast not quite out of the way yet! This is a very inspired call: Dastmalchian playing Piter de Vries.
https://deadline.com/2019/02/legendary-dune-david-dastmalchian-1202560175/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 19:02 (six years ago)
Can he out-Dourif Dourif though?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 19:29 (six years ago)
Impossible on the one hand, but on the other, Dastmalchian is a perfect actor to cast in something that requires a Brad Dourif-level of performance, so I'm completely good with this.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 19:47 (six years ago)
He can only aspire to a line reading as good as "Their BODies must NEVer be FOUND" with accompanying hand gestures.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 19:55 (six years ago)
no Feyd Rautha, huh
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:04 (six years ago)
Oh he'll be cast at some point.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:06 (six years ago)
well sure it's hard to come up w/ someone Chalamet can defeat in a duel
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:07 (six years ago)
BTW answering an earlier question:
If IMDB is accurate, that'll be Patrice Vermette, who worked with Villeneuve on Sicario and Arrival but not Blade Runner 2049.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:07 (six years ago)
Nice short interview with two of the younger Sisters:
https://gizmodo.com/dune-prophecy-episode-2-spoiler-interview-aoife-hinds-faoileann-cunningham-2000528804
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 19:27 (seven months ago)
Very Game of Thrones “can we fit some boobs into this exposition” episode
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 02:34 (seven months ago)
it's that winning HBO fomula
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 02:35 (seven months ago)
*formula
lol i was thinking the same thingalso i was like “they snort stuff in Dune now?”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 02:41 (seven months ago)
Doing rails of spice off a stripper’s butt
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 02:43 (seven months ago)
Dune: Anora
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 November 2024 02:47 (seven months ago)
Heeeeeeey it’s Atia of the Julii
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 December 2024 02:59 (seven months ago)
The CGI in that last scene was shockingly bad for a big budget production.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 9 December 2024 04:01 (six months ago)
Seen worse. Anyway this was — no pun intended — a very good slow burn of an episode.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 December 2024 05:28 (six months ago)
Air jail, not just for bad dachsunds anymore
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 16 December 2024 04:12 (six months ago)
How to hang around.I appreciate how this being a six episode season means nothing has really dragged and we’re almost done, even while having space to introduce a new character to immediately complicate things further.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 December 2024 06:15 (six months ago)
Second season happening!https://tvline.com/news/dune-prophecy-renewed-season-2-hbo-1235390594/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 December 2024 14:34 (six months ago)
streets are saying robert pattinson is in talks for scytale...
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 April 2025 20:29 (three months ago)
Hmm, interesting choice if so! Thinly sourced report:https://deadline.com/2025/04/dune-3-rob-pattinson-1236363305/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2025 20:39 (three months ago)
We allegedly have Leto II and Ghanima:
https://deadline.com/2025/06/dune-3-casts-nakoa-wolf-momoa-ida-brooke-1236436045/
"Son of mine."
"Yes, my charismatic father?"
"See, I'll be playing me all over again but you'll be playing a kid who eventually becomes a giant worm."
"...okay."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 June 2025 22:32 (three weeks ago)
Anyway, let’s get Duned:
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dune-3-title-imax-cameras-1236448953/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 July 2025 17:18 (six hours ago)