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Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' Delayed To October 1, 2021 (variety.com) 54

Posted by msmash from the tussle-continues dept.
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have delayed the release of "Dune," the sci-fi epic from director Denis Villeneuve. It will no longer premiere Dec. 18 and is now slated to debut in theaters Oct. 1, 2021. From a report: The move was expected after the studio pushed "Wonder Woman 1984" back from early October to Christmas Day, putting the comic book sequel's big screen debut one week ahead of "Dune." In normal circumstances, but especially during the pandemic, Warner Bros. wouldn't cannibalize ticket sales for a fellow studio release. Also accelerating the news: James Bond sequel "No Time to Die," which was originally set to launch at the end of November, was pushed back to 2021. That decision prompted Regal, the second-biggest U.S. theater chain, to close down its venues after reopening in August. If major movies continue to vacate their release dates, other circuits may be forced to shut down again as well.
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  • Oh man... I probably will not live that long... . What a bummer....

    Pretty sure I'll get Covid this winter and sail off into the ether... Co-Morbidity and all. Hope I can get this network finished for my employer.

    Was really looking forward to this. Guess I'll re-watch the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series....

    • That's ok. You'll have time to read up on the 10,000 years of human future history you'll need to really connect with the spice-world problems the characters are going through anyway.

  • I can wait (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Local ID10T ( 790134 ) <ID10T.L.USER@gmail.com> on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:13PM (#60575476) Homepage

    I can wait for a good film.

    Do a good job with the production, tell a good story. I am in no hurry to go to a theatre.

    • If they can match the look and feel of the 1984 film with a script more faithful to the original book, then it will be a winner. The 2000 miniseries stayed truer to the story, but was pretty dreadfully cast and acted, whereas the 1984 film had "weirding modules", which was about as ridiculous in the Dune universe as midichlorians was to Star Wars.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by mccalli ( 323026 )
        Are you telling me that Muad'Dib no longer needs the weirding modules?
      • I was lucky enough to see the 1984 movie before I discovered the book. So I quite enjoy both. I kind of feel for people who encountered Dune the other way around, as the movie had to have been a massive disappointment.
        But you are right on about the miniseries, I only got about an hour in before I had to give up the acting was just so bad.

        • I thought the movie was pretty bad for reasons other than its unfaithfulness to the book (to be fair, that is just too much book to contain in a single film and so much of the politics/history in the book is hard to explain visually without unwieldy amounts of exposition).

          I just thought the acting, cinematography, and effects were garbage. And I really like Lynch's other work. However, I must admit that I feel the same way about most 80s sci-fi films. But when you compare them to the top notch visual experi

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by aitikin ( 909209 )

            I thought the movie was pretty bad for reasons other than its unfaithfulness to the book (to be fair, that is just too much book to contain in a single film and so much of the politics/history in the book is hard to explain visually without unwieldy amounts of exposition).

            I just thought the acting, cinematography, and effects were garbage. And I really like Lynch's other work. However, I must admit that I feel the same way about most 80s sci-fi films. But when you compare them to the top notch visual experiences of the era: Star Wars, Alien, Terminator. . .things like Dune and Blade Runner just seem sub-par. Perhaps, since I don't really remember the 80s, I just missed the era and it's hard to appreciate them when all the films I grew up with in the 90s were so much more advanced.

            I never watched the miniseries, but I thought that a TV series would be a better way to tell the Dune story. It would also need to deviate from the book even more to make it fit the medium. But to really do Dune right, I think it would take more money than any production company would be willing to throw at it.

            I always feel like the actors were trying to give it their all, but didn't realize just how ridiculous it was going to be in the final cut. I feel like this is the time that Lynch completely jumped the shark. It doesn't help that he dedicated 3/4s of the movie to what was "Book I" and then put "Book II" and "Book III" into the last 1/4.

            Personally, I'm more looking forward to The Sisterhood [imdb.com] as it could be very interestingly done. Of course, it could be a total flop as well.

      • If you want something faithful to these books, let's me remind you that Liet-Kynes is a woman in Villeneuve's Dune.

      • While I do personally like the 80's version (and the 00s version), the worst part wasn't the weirding modules...it was the fact that by the end it turned Paul into a some sort of god that can summon rain at the end.

        He wasn't evil or sadistic like the harkonen...but he did cause a lot of people to die for the golden path...and on top of that he didn't even follow through with the golden path out of guilt and forces the burden on his son.

        • Yes, I did not get the rain thing at all. If I had liked the film, this would have spoiled it for me. I particularly didn't like the cheap special-effects, I remember when I saw ships landing somewhere, which was clearly an overlay like in some fifties alien movie. Not being too faithful to the book is almost inevitable, look at the Lord of the Rings, but also technically it was not state-of-the-art.

      • If they can match the look and feel of the 1984 film with a script more faithful to the original book, then it will be a winner.

        Right? If they don't have Sting holding a box containing a bald cat taped to a rat then I'm not interested!

        Honestly I don't know how they could ever hope to recreate that look and feel.

        • Honestly I don't know how they could ever hope to recreate that look and feel.

          Just getting the vistas and lighting right would go a long, long way in that direction. But realistically, it's going to have to look different from that for lots of reasons.

          • Just getting the vistas and lighting right would go a long, long way in that direction. But realistically, it's going to have to look different from that for lots of reasons.

            Still no catrat. And no deepy-unfortable-looking Sting.

    • Sounds like its not being delayed to put more spit & polish on it, but to not follow too closely on the release of another blockbuster. Just maximising revenue. Which is too bad, those of us who aren’t into superhero crap haven’t had a lot of great movies the past few years, but this was one of the ones I was looking forward to. Oh well... the past years I haven’t really had that feeling either, you know, the feeling of looking forward to a movie. So I can savour that feeling for a lit

      • Yea, the previous delays have made me wonder if they are have had to re-editing based on current social situations and decided it would be best to wait a year...well that and $$ because of theater closings.

        I have a feeling the virus outrage theater and cringe level of finger pointing on both sides will be dialed to down after US elections are done...but I've been wrong before and the year isn't over yet..

    • I, too, am afraid of dying from coronavirus, since I am in the top-risk category due to a birth abnormality.

      Frankly, I do not know if I will survive thru May 2021, much less October 2021, and have planned accordingly.

      At least we’re both 700k uids ;-)

  • I guess it still needs more Spice (Score:3)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:27PM (#60575498)

    Sorry, I had to.

  • Might not be the best idea. (Score:3)

    by Gravis Zero ( 934156 ) on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:42PM (#60575536)

    I could be wrong here but it seems like delaying a film with an anticipated release is a bit of a gamble. It only takes on insider to leak a film onto the internet.

    • Re:Might not be the best idea. (Score:4, Funny)

      by theshowmecanuck ( 703852 ) on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:52PM (#60575564) Journal
      We can only hope someone helps them learn that lesson.

      • Why wish that on a studio producing something you actually want? Do you not realise there's a pandemic on? It's not like the industry is enjoying losing a fuckton of money.

        Just look at Tenet, and actually IMO incredibly awesome film, quite anticipated, well received by critics and audiences, and a huge box office flop because surprise surprise people aren't all that excited about a movie date night with COVID-19. For all it's anticipation Tenet made as much money locally as some true turds, pulling ahead on

    • I'm actually pretty shocked that none of these delayed movies have leaked yet... They have to be breaking some kind of records at this point.

    • I could be wrong here but it seems like delaying a film with an anticipated release is a bit of a gamble. It only takes on insider to leak a film onto the internet.

      Sure the fanatics will download a leaked release and watch it, then fail to go to the cinema only if it's bad. But if it's bad, it's probably not going to do well anyway. Other than that, chasing leaks just isn't on the radar and those people form the majority of the cinema going public.

  • Disney is going to buy a theater chain (Score:4, Interesting)

    by blackfeltfedora ( 2855471 ) on Monday October 05, 2020 @07:23PM (#60575642)
    With the revocation of the Paramount Decrees and the theaters hemorrhaging money I predict Disney buys a chain and uses it for exclusive Disney/Marvel/etc film releases.

    • My prediction is that Netflix moves first, so that they can always premier things in a real theater and be eligible for Oscar nominations. They already rent theaters for this purpose, but it may become cheaper to buy.

      • But for that purpose, Netflix would only need a dozen theatres or so at best. They could even get away with a single theatre in Hollywood, maybe? What are the rules to be eligible for Oscar nominations?

        • The minimum showing is seven consecutive days in LA County, at least three times a day, with at least one showing between 6pm and 10pm (with a few categories having exceptions). Netflix won't need a whole chain for eligibility per se, but they would want a hedge against the nostalgists changing the rules in a way to specifically block Netflix. They'd also have a great PR counter-attack, in that the self-styled defenders of film could be characterized as attacking an entity that actually tired to keep theate

  • Maybe this just helps us delay the pain of another disappointment.
  • Dune was hideous when it was first serialized in Analog. Nothing will improve that steaming pile more than burying it.
  • Disappointing, but would really prefer Jodorowsky's Dune. I recently watched the documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] and the concepts looked amazing.

    • Jodorowsky's version would have been drastically different from Frank Herbert's. More of a mythical epic(14 hour script according to some) inspired by the book. if you read the Metabarons you'll see what he would have turned Dune into. It would have been interesting for sure, but it would barely be Dune as we know it. I'd rather see The Incal be made into a film.

  • Hang on...? (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Hang on... Dune was released in 1984 - so we're having another go at it now? Did we run out of new stories and ideas? I can't wait for the remake of BMX Bandits.

    The other irony here is that Dune was released in 1984 and the remake is being delayed by "Wonderwoman: 1984" which is going out on Christmas day (as apparently we're using that as the canary down the mine to see if people are ready to go to cinemas again - which I'll be honest, I wouldn't bother to do for that film, doubly so on Christmas day, but

  • Slashdot is as usual a bad place for positive movie discussion. I absolutely loved (and love) the one from the 1980s. The first book was great... discovered it well after the 80s. This new movie looks excellent... definitely comes across as a mix of the old movie and the books like someone mentioned, so I'm all for it.

  • Once the media isn't trying to throw rocks at the president for destroying the multiverse, people can get back to living.

    Surprise! I'm going to live my life now anyway!
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