LEGENDARY ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO FRANK HERBERT’S CLASSIC SCI-FI NOVEL DUNE
>Legendary and the Frank Herbert estate have reached an agreement granting the production entity the film and television motion picture rights to the beloved novel DUNE, one of the most revered science fiction novels of all time. The agreement calls for the development and production of possible film and television projects for a global audience. The projects would be produced by Thomas Tull, Mary Parent and Cale Boyter, with Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert serving as executive producers.
>Set in the distant future, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides whose family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis. As the only producer of a highly valuable resource, control of Arrakis is highly contested among the noble families. After Paul and his family are betrayed, the story explores themes of politics, religion, and man’s relationship to nature as Paul leads a rebellion to restore his family’s control of Arrakis.
>Dune has long been considered the crown jewel of science fiction properties. Its legacy and influence is witnessed in everything from STAR WARS to THE MATRIX and often referred to as the science fiction version of LORD OF THE RINGS with its sprawling world and multi-dimensional politics.
Elijah Reed
They'll fuck it up somehow, nothing makes me excited anymore.
Gavin Turner
They'll just brush over the political stuff, Paul will be aged up to a young adult again, Bene Geserett super awareness and Mentat's hyper logical thinking will be ignored because its too difficult to film.
Carson Reed
Those filthy chinamen will never do it justice
Josiah Stewart
Dune isn't even that interesting tbqh
I don't know why people think its some unapproachable beast. Jodorowsky's Dune wasn't like the book at all.
Jackson Green
>nothing makes me excited anymore Sup Forums in one centanse.
Gavin Allen
I think Lynch's movie is fucking great to be honest with you my dudes
Joseph Bell
>alright, guys, we fucked it up the first 20 times, but this time, FOR SURE
Liam Murphy
>LEGENDARY ENTERTAINMENT
CHINESE DUNE CONFIRMED!
Adam Russell
it's grown on me a lot since it came out. terrible adaptation maybe but great fucking film!
Alexander Sanders
Jennifer Lawrence will be Paul's, perfect Aryan waifu who was the Harkonen he married, will she?
Eli Davis
>director announced >screenwriter hired >screenwriter replaced >casting rumors >rumors shot down when actor's prior commitments make public >screenwriter replaced again >concerns budget to grow to $600 million >director leaves project >10 years go by with nothing to show for it >rights revert to Herbert Estate >repeat
Eli Diaz
Quads confirm the dune curse shan't be broken
Adrian Baker
I really, really, really, really, really hope they don't fuck it up. It would be good to have a good dune movie franchise, instead of just that turd lynch shitted out
Mason Ramirez
...
Cooper Lee
Allow Jodorowski to direct it
Jayden Wilson
If there is even one person from Game of Thrones in it, I'm out.
Sean Bean is fine tho
Elijah Young
nice pasta
Nolan Powell
Leave dune to me
Levi Garcia
Its real this time idiot
Aaron Russell
All I know about Dune is it's a political sci-fi novel with sandworms in it.Never read the book(but i'm planning to), never seen the movie.I'll watch the movie even though lots of people says it's bad and Lynch treats it like his wife's son.My real question is, is series worth watching?Both Dune and Children of Dune?
Isaac Parker
>In September, Arrival/Blade Runner 2029 director Denis Villeneuve expressed an interest in directing a remake to Dune
Landon Collins
The book is very heavy on internalisation, most of the "dialogue" is the characters thinking to themselves. Also much of the background is very peculiar and never really explained, at least in the first book.
Jaxon Williams
Dune isn't science fiction
Leo Bennett
Nothing can beat the 80s movie
I can't accept a Dune movie without the intro with princess Irulan
Brayden Perry
It's not a faithful adaption but it is a very sympathetic one. Lynch expressed most of teh themes very well, and added a bunch of stuff to make it more filmable. The theatrical release was incoherent but the 3 hour director's cut is a magnificent movie.
Landon Watson
it is though
Xavier Parker
What would drive a hothead to say soemthing as dumb as this?
Caleb Brown
>nothing makes me excited anymore. Nice blog post, filthy numale.
Kevin Taylor
Is series worth watching you pieces of shit?
Owen Robinson
Actually yes, it's pretty good. The visual effects are often laughable but it's a much more faithful version than Lynch's movie.
Xavier Mitchell
worst b8 ever
Elijah Brooks
it's not bait. it's fantasy in space.
Hudson Perry
>fantasy in space
A genre also known as....?
Juan Thompson
Is this true? If the new Blade Runner turns out good, I don't see why he shouldn't direct it.
Ryder Stewart
both miniseries are good BUT you have to deal with the crappy CGI and the "theatrical" approach they sometimes have, as in it's not a gritty real naturalistic tv drama of 2016 very faithful and solid watch though
Jack Parker
You can't fit Dune into a movie. Even a trilogy. It would cheapen and simplify everything.
The only way to tell this story is a 4-5 season, high budget television show. Preferably HBO so it's at least handled with a little prestige.
Jeremiah Price
fiction and fantasy are two separate things
Camden Jones
More importantly, who will be the Baron?
Kayden Robinson
Why is Dune considered this good?Fans act like it's the best thing that happened to sci-fi genre.And what's wrong with Lynch's movie?
Charles Moore
All fantasy is fiction by definition. Science fiction is just fantasy with scientific tropes in place of fantastical ones.
Cooper Garcia
>making a film about Jihad post 911
It will never happen without being gutted.
Grayson Bailey
The book is fantastic, as are the sequels by Frank (the ones his son wrote are among the worst things ever created). I love the Lynch movie, some Dunefags don't because it took so many liberties with the source text but it evokes the mood of the books splendidly.
Connor Sanders
>A genre also known as....? Science Fantasy
Matthew Lopez
But why doesn't Lynch like it?I know he's an old grumpy man but what is there to hate it that much?
Camden Hill
Dune is way too Islamic to be made in this current climate.
Hudson Wilson
It was butchered in editing. If you're interested in watching it, try to make sure you get the ultra long director's cut, the theatrical release was fant4stic levels of terribad.
Dylan Adams
Spicediver fan edit is the best way to watch it
Ethan Thomas
Nope. It's Space Opera.
Jayden Hill
I'm amazed Brian Herbert is still writing Dune books
I remember thinking some of those prequel books he wrote after his father died were really terrible
Nicholas Stewart
>I remember thinking some of those prequel books he wrote after his father died were really terrible
They were.
Jeremiah Long
haven't read the book, but i loved the movie
i loved the mythology and atmosphere of the movie and everything
you can even see how much it inspired things like warhammer 40k and star wars when you watch it, except it's even bigger, because the human empire is not just a galactic empire, it's an empire spanning several galaxies, it's the empire of the known universe
Zachary Long
They'll rape the book anyway, but this time without love nor lube.
Cameron Harris
>legendary
Dropped.
Elijah Thompson
Read the book user, you wont regret it.
Bentley Scott
No it's not.
Hudson Sullivan
It's a license to print money. Brian is a TERRIBLE writer, but his books still sell by the million.
Blake Morgan
Yes it is.
Nolan Edwards
No it's not.
Hudson Robinson
Yes it is.
Daniel King
There's fiction and nonfiction. It branches from those two things. Don't be a dingus.
Parker Young
Only shitty science fiction just USES tropes.
Good scifi has ideas, and inspires tropes.
Lincoln Johnson
>Only shitty science fiction just USES tropes. It's still scifi >Good scifi has ideas, and inspires tropes. Just like Dune give birth to shitton of scifi tropes.
Andrew Bennett
No, literature is almost always trope-based. Real experimental writing that doesn't rely on tropes is rare and generally considered exceptionally difficult to grok, for example "Finnegan's Wake".
Elijah Smith
Good story and a good writer, whatever is it scifi or not, are the keys.
Isaiah Allen
Not all tropes are equal, and some tropes are less equal than others.
Cooper Hall
...
Landon Ortiz
>Good scifi has ideas, and inspires tropes. you mean like exactly what Dune did?
Robert Johnson
>Fantasy is a fiction genre that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting.
Cooper Price
>Google 'Dune' >God Emperor of Mankind
Great. So not only did they copy 40k, but they're now going to be the face of new Sup Forumstards spamming edits. Can't wait till the MarySue article on it.
Nicholas Gonzalez
ok and the difference is?
and you draw the line between them where?
Levi Green
Man Leto II really fucked himself up senpai
I seriously don't get the pug. Leto never struck me as a man who would carry around a halpless dog like your middle aged suburbanite.
Jacob Roberts
realism
Ian Morales
How the fuck does this happen?
Jeremiah Hall
3000 years of metamorphosis
Nolan Bell
go on people, cast the movie.
i'd do it but i'm really shit when it comes to casting.
Ayden Thompson
I'm talking for the ones here that are the bookfags.
There are 2 postulates in this story that makes me cringe a little : - Collective couciousness used by the Bene-Gesseritt (I know that Herbert studied Young and believed that, but for fuck sake...). - The both-side-auto-obliteration Laser and Electro-shield (herbert used this shitty explanation to avoid laser pewpew gun fights).
Andrew Hernandez
Is this supposed to be good? Cause Legendary fucks up everything it gets its hands on.
>Godzilla 2014 Terrible. >New Power Rangers movie Looks to be fucking awful.
Parker Thompson
I was going to be like "Oh cool, maybe Del Toro could do it, that would be great" but then I remembered that it's not like that that fat lazy mexican actually MAKES FUCKING FILMS THAT PEOPLE WANT HIM TO MAKE so I guess Villeneuve could take it
Liam White
>LEGENDARY ENTERTAINMENT With their track record it's going to be AWESOME!!
Dominic Peterson
This, its too political and slow paced to be properly adapted as a film. I doesn't needs to be on HBO though, their isn't anything in Dune that wouldn't be completely acceptable on cable tv and HBO approach to cramming sex into everything wouldn't fit the series. More like 40k completely ripped it off they didn't even bother renaming shit like lasguns and The Imperium.
Lucas Watson
Fiction: things that didn't happen happening in realistic ways
Fantasy: things that didn't happen happening in impossible, fantastical ways
Example Hitler didn't turn and fight the soviets, he managed to diplomatically stave off conflict on the eastern front long enough to wear out the allies and defeated the reds on home territory, winning WW2. Possible, plausible. Fiction.
Hitler colluded with aethereal soacegods across time and space to manipulate the nature of reality, summoning colossal arcane beasts to decimate the forces of his enemies. Not possible, not realistic, imaginary. Fantasy.
James Price
>Clitoratz-Haderach.jpg
Nathaniel Wright
Blachat was good pham
Blake Reed
I think God Emperor of Dune is better than DUNE
COME AT ME
Jordan Bell
Everyone knows Book of the New Sun>>>> Dune
Kevin Richardson
Irulan was a Corrino, not a filthy Harkonnen
Paul is a Harkonnen through his unknowing mother though
Adam Robinson
the problem with a series is actors get too old.
i'd settle for a trilogy;
1-from the beginning to when paul joins the arabs 2-first 1/3 training montage, to war beginning 3-the war against the emperor, ends with paul's coronation
Nicholas Reyes
What was this concept art made for? Looks superb
Isaac Flores
Aka his whore mother
Samuel Butler
i agree, for me it's god > messiah > dune > children
Josiah Ortiz
I never even finished Children of Dune and haven't touched God Emperor but I still accept this as fact
Mason Parker
yes but paul will be played by idris elba
Easton Thompson
God Emperor is mostly Leto 2 bitching about how all powerful he is and moping and whining that he has no waifu and eventually the Ixian Jew ruins everything but it was all just as planned
Nolan Cruz
MAKE ARRAKIS GREAT AGAIN
Cameron Murphy
All the supernatural elements are based off rigid developed evolution of humans in Dune. Arguable that it is based off actual sciences. It's not like they have mystical powers. It's all explained, in limited fashion.