A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

not really a big fan of how they took an already white-folks-heavy cast and then washed everyone’s faces out for this pre-trailer so it looks like they’re all literally the same shade as chalamet

I haaaaate Chalamet. His voice alone has un-sold me on this.

Surprised to see Zach Galifinakis working again.

not really a big fan of how they took an already white-folks-heavy cast and then washed everyone’s faces out for this pre-trailer so it looks like they’re all literally the same shade as chalamet

can I blame Annie Leibovitz for this

Annnnd we got trailer.

Someone once said, “he who controls the spice controls when the Dune trailer drops.” We control the spice.

This is the EXCLUSIVE look at the #DuneMovie trailer. pic.twitter.com/38TcAtWnAp

— Twitter Movies (@TwitterMovies) September 9, 2020

...I was not expecting the Pink Floyd cover, and I am not joking.

tweet that still applies from yesterday:

mfw Dune trailer releases tomorrow pic.twitter.com/CaiM39tJWy

— dune opinions account (@fellawhomstdve) September 8, 2020

i am looking forward to this but i wish it wasn't so damn dark and dreary looking. like a big grey slab.

not sure i can handle two hours of meaningful chalamet stares

probably marks me as naive, but I was honestly not expecting so much fanservice, even in a trailer!

yeah i imagine that Floyd cover was a nod to Jodorowsky's Dune, huh.

I kinda appreciate how we finally get ornithopters that actually LOOK like ornithopters, in my mind.

dragonflies and worm do look good.

looks very....brown

Ween would have been more appropriate than Floyd

They at least evaded the problem the DeLaurentis production had with footage of sandworms deemed pornographic.

Honestly, it still seems too indebted to the 1984 release. Like Deneuve's 2049, a depopulated version of the original. I honestly don't know how one could honor the innovations of Herbert to written sci-fi (a focus on ecology, an interest in non-Western human culture/history) without taking pretty strong detours from the source material, and this isn't that.

it's only part one lads

he's going to hobbit this mfer

unless it flops / doesn't hit hard enough

Aren't they filming this like LoR? All the live action for two films at once?

from a scan of the wiki page, doesn't seem that way.

it's gnna be five films, the middle three nothing but worm stuff back and forth, back and forth, the worms getting bigger and bigger

This looks pretty cool despite the muted color palette, but it will take a lot to outdo the Lynch version, warts and all.

whispering and pugs and eyebrows is all i ask

the middle three nothing but worm stuff back and forth, back and forth, the worms getting bigger and bigger

I was thinking more like

https://www.sagindie.org/media/MeAndYou-kids.jpg

[opening of Dune trailer]

[Arnold Schwarzenegger as Baron Harkonnen]: SPICE to meet you!

— 🐢 (@smashedmcdouble) September 9, 2020

Also I'm seriously envious Geoff Barrow didn't recognize the music:

That’s literally the worst trailer music I’ve ever heard...

What song is it?

It sounds like a gospel version of
The back street boys https://t.co/MXhY0QR9Ot

— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) September 9, 2020

music for trailer, DUNE 2: SARAUKAR DRIFT:

i've got a worm you can ride it if you learn / it's a nice worm
i'd give it to you if i could / kwisatz haderach

SARDAUKAR ffs

xxp lol he's not wrong

this looks pretty good to me, someone who has read the first dune book but isn't particularly invested in it and also really liked blade runner 2049

don't really like Villeneuve and blade runner 2049 was bad Imo but will watch the hell out of this

the shai-hulud looks good

i read dune #1 for the first time earlier this year and really enjoyed it while simultaneously thinking its just one of those books that if/when attempting to render it visually will just fundamentally always look & seem silly. That being said this looks pretty watchable and non-silly so I'm cautiously optimistic. Cant blame them for going super grim and monochromatic and somber bc theyve gotta fight against all that inherent silliness.

actually they don't have to and probably shouldn't but

Silliness?! In a giant worm flick?!

http://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop%2Ch_1133%2Cw_1685%2Cx_293%2Cy_0/v1592785618/shape/mentalfloss/61181-universal_pictures_home_entertainment.jpg

i have never read Dune, i think it’s finally time to attempt now that i’m trapped indoors

trailer looks cool
also OSCAR ISAAC

i'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that Dune, cracked in your 40's, is likely not gonna be a lot of fun

I read it early this year, at 35, and enjoyed it

I read it less than 10 years ago (I am 48) and enjoyed it a lot more than when I tried and gave up in high school.

yeah i read it for the first time around 40 and i liked it. i've never been a big sci-fi reader either.

I'm mad that they skipped past "All that you eat" on the shot of the worm eating the spice harvester.

Ween would have been more appropriate than Floyd

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:50 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Or TMBG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxXVhdmdZc

my spouse just finished dune for the first time in her mid-30s and liked it a lot

hi, new to ILX, but after watching trailer all the "unneccessary" talk wayyyy upthread is OTM imho tbqh.

also: did they show the guild navigator(s) in the trailer? must've missed them.

holy shit, I had it playing in the background a while ago and in the back of my mind I thought, is that a slowed down spooky Pink Floyd cover, can't be, seems too on the nose even for one of these epic event films. And then just now I got to watch it properly all the through and, yep, slowed down spooky Pink Floyd.

xxps Maybe I'm Wrong About Dune!
I should probably try rereading it; my only memories are junior high school ones.

i (29) read dune for the first time this summer and liked it a lot!

guild navigators aren't even in the book - not that I wouldn't love to see them.

im not much of a reader of sci fi, had always been dune-curious but had been scared off by ppl saying its super dense, super boring, etc, but i dunno i got caught up in it and found it pretty fun