Dune Remake Could Mean 3D Sandworms 589
bowman9991 writes "The new Dune remake is becoming as epic as Frank Herbert's Dune series itself. Now that director Peter Berg has been ousted, new director Pierre Morel has decided to throw out Peter Berg's script entirely, starting afresh with his own ideas and vision. 'We're starting from scratch,' said Morel. 'Peter had an approach which was not mine at all, and we're starting over again.' Morel also reveals that 'It's the kind of movie that has the scope to be 3D.' He's also keen on sticking to the original material and recognizes that he must try to delete the images associated with David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune from the public's consciousness."
Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nice! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
The difference in Dune is that only the eyes are blue.
How many remakes have their been? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why not just use Herbert's screenplay? (Score:4, Funny)
I keep trying to imagine Dune like Lord of the Rings but I keep needing to interrupt myself to go to the bathroom...
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, I've read all the original books (written by Frank himself) and I still don't think I could summarize the plot.
Public's Consciousness? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wasn't the SciFi network mini-series good enoug (Score:3, Funny)
Wasn't the SciFi network mini-series good enough?
Good enough to do what:
- to ensure no further remakes are made out of shame?
- to strengthen the eye muscles of anyone who'd read the book by either rolling their eyes or attempting to close them after they've already been shut?
- to harvest a few gigawatts of electricity from the wild dynamo of Frank Herbert rolling in his grave?
Before they made that movie they should've considered whether they needed to add any more disgrace to the Herbert estate. Hasn't Brian Herbert done enough damage already?
Re:Needs a sidekick (Score:5, Funny)
Mesa think isa great idea.
And, you know what? I know we're trying to be more faithful to the original work, but this whole "butlerian jihad" bit really seems a minor point... How about we add some robots, huh?
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Rampaging cult overthrows galactic government.
Done, now was that so hard? :-)
Re:How many remakes have their been? (Score:5, Funny)
no, but you can get atrophy.
Re:Why not just use Herbert's screenplay? (Score:2, Funny)
you need a fremen suit, duh...
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
Re:Why not just use Herbert's screenplay? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
Pshaw! Who'd ever go to see a movie like that? That's crazy talk!
Re:Still gonna suck. (Score:5, Funny)
Battlefield Earth all but proved that great sci-fi books are often unfilmable.
Re:ain't broke, don't fix it (Score:4, Funny)
It's 's' unless it's American English. No, I don't mean it in the Microsoft way of dictation, but rather the international standard. Honestly, only Americans could bastardize the word bastardise.
Well what do you expect? They took the 'u' out of honour as well.
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
NO! The risk of him creating a Dune Jarjar is too great.
Call Michael Bay!
Re:Hmmm... (Score:1, Funny)
It could be a sandworm with legs!
"Mesa Wormy Worms! How is youusa?"
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
That would be easy, just get George Lucas to do it.
NO!
Surely you mean "Dune Not Want"?
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait about a decade, all the details will slip away and your entire memory of it will look something like this:
Kid goes to a different planet, some fat dude wants to kill him, he runs away and hides with crazy cave-people who drink their own piss, something about a big worm, then he comes back and kills everybody, oh and there's a huge spaceship and some lizard-looking dude who lives in a giant bong, anyway he kills the emperor and becomes the king of everything and then his little sister is creepy for awhile.
The second book I remember as follows:
Uh, there's a weapon that's kind of like a nuke except it just melts down instead of exploding and the kid gets hit by it and his eyes melt but he can see anyway, a bunch of other stuff happens too probably?
So you see, time makes summarizing anything easy!
Re:Hmmm... (Score:1, Funny)
Rampaging cult overthrows galactic government.
Done, now was that so hard? :-)
So Star Wars
Re:3D, who cares (Score:5, Funny)
People will start to care if they made a 4D Dune movie composed of prescient visions.
Re:Hmmm... (Score:1, Funny)
If you judge the 1984 version as poor as a movie, so be it. If you judge it as poor for not being a faithful adaptation of the book then you've missed the point of film.
I think I'm entitled to the latter criticism when the ending is changed to be completely the opposite of what Orwell wrote.
Terry Gilliam got the spirit right when he wrote Brazil.
Re:Hmmm... (Score:2, Funny)
it will be like "a day in the life of Yoda" vs. the original Star Wars trilogy.
11:00-woke up.
12:00-hangover wore off enough to leave house
1:00-Wondered through swamp
2:00-Meditated for 6 hours
8:00-Went clubing
9:30-Got two girls upstairs
10:00-Oh shit oh shit I killed one!
10:15-Jedi mind tricked the cop. Got off free.
11:30-Returned home, punked, went to bed.
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe it was my age when I saw it, but to me I don't care what's in the books - the Lynch movie is what the Dune universe is to me
Good grief, this is like saying Cheeze Whiz is what defines cheese for you. I'm sorry for you.
Re:Get over it (Score:4, Funny)
In Canada, we just accept both spellings and get on with our lives.
Re:Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
No...that's not crazy talk.
THIS is crazy talk:
Ostrich muffins creme-filled tires blue basket marshmallow glimmer frog Natalie fried-rice puppy barrel monkey!!!
Re:Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
I think he meant Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Re:Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ain't broke, don't fix it (Score:3, Funny)
What the hell are you talking about? There's no "u" in "honor"! Can't you recognize that? ;-)
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
True. Let us slay the infidel honorably. Draw thine knife, kafir!