I learned today for the first time that a remake of the awesome book (and decidedly less awesome early 80s movie) Dune is being made, and is currently in post-production with a release date of December 18, 2020.
The cast includes many I don't know, but the ones I do know seem excellent for their roles. It's damn near a Marvel reunion...
Jason Mamoa as Duncan Idaho (the swordmaster of House Atreides)
Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck (weaponsmaster of House Atreides, played memorably (and surprisingly) by Patrick Stewart in the original movie
Stellan Skarsgard as Baron Harkonnen
Dave Bautista (better known as Drax the Destroyer) as "Beast" Rabban, the nephew of Harkonnen
This film is also only going to cover the first half of the book, which is good. It's really not possible to cover the whole thing in one 2 or 3 hour movie.
Anyway -- I love the book and a really good film would be great. What say you about all this news? Or am I just the last to known (as would be typical, to be honest!) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pants:
I haven't seen the new one yet (seeing it tomorrow), but I imagine they didn't go much into the Baron's sexual preferences. Tough to have an evil pederast villain in this day and age.
Not at all. Of course, the key scene where that comes into play that may or may not make the cut would be in the second part.
The Emperor was discussed but not shown. There was also no mention of the Fenrings, but again they wouldn't appear until part 2. The scene where Jessica finds the note from Lady Margot was not in the movie. [Reply]
Really good take on a really tough to film book (which I've probably read 15 times, it's my favorite...)
Spoiler!
Although I understand the necessity of world building for those who haven't read the novel, I did not particularly like the first 15 or 20 minutes. It felt felt forced and disjointed in comparison to the remainder of the movie.
However, from the gom jabbar on, i thought it was great. Stayed fairly true to the novel while at the same time maintaining some forward momentum in an effort to keep a 2020's audience entertained. Although I'm sure it's still too slow for some folks.
Originally Posted by srvy:
If you had read the books you would understand how bad Lynch F'ed up that movie and the mini-series tried but failed. I really hope this one clicks.
Lynch's Dune was both awful and awesome. It is one of those "good bad movies". I am referring to the theatrical version, with the pared down exposition, not that fuckawful abortion of an edit made for television release. The TV cut was "extended" to allow for more commercial slots, and included the worst exposition ever captured on film. FFS, much of it was accompanied by horrible drawings and matte stills too shitty for use in the theatrical release. When I saw that cut I wondered if that was the version Roger Ebert watched and described as the worst movie ever made?
I liked the SyFy mini series. They did the best job covering this admittedly difficult series of books (well, at least the first two). [Reply]
Still very different from my own mental images from the text, but much better and accessible. At least it's not distractingly weird in and of itself, just distracting for someone with strong existing mental imagery.
The gom jabbar scene was great. The overall cinematography wasn't all that flashy or anything, but Chalamet's presence and expressiveness along with the score really knocked it home, . . . legit lumped up and almost had to bow out for a moment.
One weird, thing that was massively distracting once I actually noticed. Never in my life did it even occur to me to enunciate 'Muad'Dib' as Mahdy. Many more syllables in my own head, . . . something along the lines of Mwah-DEEB-uh. Didn't even register that's what they were referring to at first. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
He hasn't taken the name Muad'dib yet. What you heard was Mahdi, the messianic figure put into place by the Bene Gesserit.
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
He hasn't taken the name Muad'dib yet. What you heard was Mahdi, the messianic figure put into place by the Bene Gesserit.
They did show the mouse a couple of times, though. [Reply]
