A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

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.

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

ok now that they got the cast out of the way, who's doing the production design?

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/

Can he out-Dourif Dourif though?

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.

He can only aspire to a line reading as good as "Their BODies must NEVer be FOUND" with accompanying hand gestures.

no Feyd Rautha, huh

Oh he'll be cast at some point.

well sure it's hard to come up w/ someone Chalamet can defeat in a duel

BTW answering an earlier question:

ok now that they got the cast out of the way, who's doing the production design?

If IMDB is accurate, that'll be Patrice Vermette, who worked with Villeneuve on Sicario and Arrival but not Blade Runner 2049.

All you nerds should stop discussing this movie that isn’t even made yet and go watch Alita

An almost perfect sentence and then.

Alita owns and if you don’t like it you’re a cop

I transcend such definitions, and merely am here to help you achieve your inner Kwisatz Haderach.

I'm here for the Golden Path myself

it's a doozy

...huh.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dune-sisterhood-tv-series-a-go-at-warnermedia-1217286

they're really convinced pt 1 is not gonna bomb huh

Kinda reminds me of that Dark Tower plan that went nowhere.

I caught that Dark Tower movie the other night. having never read the books, I thought it was nonsensical garbage, obviously elided and poorly edited. I can only imagine the disappointment of fans of the series.

Anyway I do like the idea of a Sisterhood show, but Brian Herbert is not exactly in the same league as dad.

They're still making the Dark Tower TV series, in spite of how badly the movie did

seems like a better idea. a movie seemed ill-advised.

"from a script by John Spaihts (Prometheus, Passengers)." Fuuuuuuuck.

behold

DUNC

Peep the gorgeous title art for Denis Villeneuve's #Dune 👀 pic.twitter.com/c3M9Fpe47D

— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) January 29, 2020

Disappointed that’s just fanart

other half of the image says
A N I D A H O

Relieved that's just fanart

pic.twitter.com/MjWaugukLg

— rob trench (@robtrench) January 29, 2020

This is a crew t-shirt with the Dune logo. It could be legit. pic.twitter.com/lpcqim6JHu

— Secrets of Dune (@SecretsOfDune) January 29, 2020

I think that is more/less what the logo looks like. Was just a cleaned up fan representation.

https://m.imgur.com/a/1x13zFE

pls mr villeneuve, dunc on me

I'd rather have the font like that DAAMN in the linked pic, all cockeyed & slapped over the image

*doodlydoodlydoodly*. Behold!

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5e90d6ed52ad2c00089f508f/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/0520-Dune-Timothee-Solo-Lede.jpg

I mean it's a great preview image from the next Wes Anderson or Noah Baumbach or Kenneth Lonergan film uh wait hold on:

“The immediately appealing thing about Paul was the fact that in a story of such detail and scale and world-building, the protagonist is on an anti-hero’s-journey of sorts,” Chalamet said.

In other words, he’s not dreaming of adventure. He’s resisting it. Afraid of it.

"But I don't WANNA be the Kwisatz Haderach!" (Which admittedly IS the plot but not expressed that way...I hope.)

some more boring images here

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/behold-dune-an-exclusive-look-at-timothee-chalamet-zendaya-oscar-isaac

Think Greta Thunberg, only she’s a Jedi with a diploma from Hogwarts.

goddamnit

please don’t make me think about that

I realize there’s no way this can work whenever they film it but always having the stillsuits be “cover the entire body for protection but leave the head totally exposed so you desiccate in a couple of hours in what would be the real conditions” is never not funny.

How long until all these films with ultra filtered color palettes start reading as old fashioned and out of date?

At least the Lynch version looked cool as hell

Hope they didn't film the entire thing in a gravel pit

https://i.imgur.com/yvNqD7N.jpg

Eh... I think I'll be a Harkonnen

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5e94b114b263650008165bdb/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/0520-Dune-Ebmed-02.jpg

appears to be worthy of the most boring novel I have ever finished

Despite liking a good part of Bladerunner 2049 myself I think over all this guy Villeneuve is the bland, beige and dull filmmaker par excellence.

So many films done in the that same corner of Wadi Rum. Every time I expect to see Prince Faisal's encampment.

Yeah did Oscar Isaac wake up each day going "Okay...which big budget SF spectacle am I in today?"

These sets and costumes are reminding me a lot more of the Sci-Fi channel version but more expensive looking.

Looks like there was extra wood veneer left over from the Wallace Corp. HQ sets from Blade Runner 2049. In that context, it read as "this many has enough money for real wood", in this it reads as "Production designer Dennis Gassner really likes Danish modern".

Oops, guess its Patrice Vermette on this (and Arrival)