A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

Sure is getting a lot of the technical Oscars here.

Timothee Chalamet's sparkly Judi Dench jacket and salamander's bare chest = look of the year

Poor JK Simmons.

hope the sound team won an award or two, the doc made them seem like the most endearingly dedicated nerds <3

the won the sound award (there's only one now) as they should have

Meantime the prequel TV series continues being a thing:

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dune-prequel-series-hbo-max-johan-renck-director-1235242651/

The “Dune” prequel series at HBO Max has brought Johan Renck onboard to direct the first two episodes.

Renck will also serve as an executive producer on the show, currently titled “Dune: The Sisterhood.” It was ordered straight-to-series at HBO Max in June 2019. Previously, “Dune” director and co-writer Denis Villeneuve was attached to direct the pilot for “Dune: The Sisterhood,” but his work on the “Dune” sequel film will prevent him from doing so.

The show is set 10,000 years prior to the events of “Dune” and follows the Harkonnen Sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit.

good to know that the vastness of the known universe across millennia only runs to three families of note

Well you know

feel like there's another sci-fi ish franchise where the entire universe revolves around a few families

Yup, Weyland and Yutani

kickstarter for ridley to introduce alucard harkonnen-butler into the xenomorph mythos

If I see the name Brian Herbert attached to so much as the on-set craft services I am kicking the series to the kerb

They list executive producers further down in the article. It's crawling with Herberts.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_small/7/72648/2048210-erbert.jpg

So it looks like the additions to the cast for the sequel are:

Austin Butler as Feyd, noted earlier
Florence Pugh as Irulan
Christopher Walken as Shaddam IV

And announced today: Lea Seydoux as Lady Margot Fenring

no complaints!

Yeah it's pretty solid -- will be interested to see if Margot's husband Hasimir gets cast too, and also who will play Harah, which is about the only other notable role from the novel I can think of remaining...well except for Alia of course and I do wonder how exactly they'll handle her.

i think i'm one of the only people to have watched the truly awful syfy Children of Dune miniseries (james mcavoy! susan sarandon!). they pronounce the girl's name "Cheney," it's a wreck

― goole, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:11 (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

im watching the very end of it right now (it was on LEGEND channel)

omg steven berkoff as stilgar

everyone is very pretty and golden

I was not able to make it very far into this series when it came out, none of it felt right to me

yes they didnt find a way to make leto ii power-running thru the sand look non-stupid

I finally saw the movie last night as it is on streaming for HBO. Beautifully done. It is one of the best looking science fiction movies I have seen in years. The invasion sequence was really well done.

I'd love to see the director and designers of this movie take a crack at Moorcock's Elric. There was something about how the buildings looked that made me think they could do a pretty wicked looking version of Melnibone.

So the spinoff series is kicking in

https://spaceba✧✧✧.ma✧✧✧.host/@junkyardmess✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧/109388759771034033

More direct!

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRCC_8Nihn/

I also managed to see this movie this week and was very pleasantly surprised. It's both visually stunning and surprisingly well cast. Not only the principals, but the smaller roles--Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam, for example, and Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Liet-Kynes turn in solid performances. Unlike earlier efforts, this film did not betray my imagination.

People liked this???

Maybe it's just not for you?

it's just the plot of Dune with all the stuff from Dune it it, inert and unthrilling and unmemorable, stacks up very poorly next to Tenet, Alita Battle Angel, Jupiter Ascending, Dora and the Lost City of Gold…

Maybe it's just not for you?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, January 13, 2023 1:13 PM (three minutes ago)

this is ilxor isn't it

stopped taking you seriously after Tenet tbh

I didn't realize anyone had started taking me seriously?

lol I disliked Dune but Tenet as a counter was def a surprise. I have not seen Dora

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well of course that doesn't matter! But Nolan is a complete hack cunt and all his movies are absolute nauseating shite and I cannot brook any other opinion.

Dora is a fun tween/young teen oriented action-adventure with positive messages about friendship, fitting in, and anticolonialism!

Dune is an unpleasant older teen/adult oriented action-adventure with confusing and kinda racist messages about ecology, fitting in, and anticolonialism

hibidtae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQ5iQ-NbFA

not a captain save-a-Nolan myself, the Batman movies are bad and Inception was the definition of "mid" but Tenet had me hooting/hollering, figuratively.

this is ilxor isn't it

Sir, this is a Wendy's

I used to think Villeneuve was as bad as Nolan in many ways, but recently re-watched Sicario and Enemy and the Blade Runner sequel, he's very good at what he does. Which is definitely not a compliment I'd offer to Nolan.

A rewatch with subtitles will help, but my general reaction throughout Tenet was "I don't know why you have a gun to her head but I trust you have your reasons"

Dune is an unpleasant older teen/adult oriented action-adventure with confusing and kinda racist messages about ecology, fitting in, and anticolonialism

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, January 13, 2023 2:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

all true and yet whenever i see an adaptation of it i'm like "this is rad. worm big"

ya whatever messages may be encoded in the story are swathed in the dreamiest of vibes by villenueve, to the point of cozy suffocation, and i am hungry for those vibes

but if a silby isn't feeling it that's cool too

can't deny worm big

if they get to God Emperor and don't cut the All-Lesbian Army I will give this enterprise one quantum of credit

god this stupid series gets so stupid Frank Herbert was high as a kite

Seeing how Timothee Chalamet was cast to play Paul Atreides one must expect the dreamiest of vibes to waft from the screen like zephyrs on a summer's day. It's built-in.

I saw the Lynch version at the cinema when I was 12. A formative moment that I will never get to talk about on desert island discs!

That's why we are here. I also saw it in the theater when I was 9 and it was equally formative. I love that film and love all things David Lynch, and yet I think this new one might be a better film (though less endearingly bizarre). Beyond the dreamy vibes I also quite enjoyed all the very large spaceships, vehicles, and weapons constantly clunking on everything.

Dune was the one Lynch film I wish he hadn't made