skyjedi2005 said:
Fang Zei said:
As for Dune, well, I'm surprised there hasn't been any talk of getting James McAvoy back for a God Emperor of Dune miniseries.
That won't happen they see him as Professor X now.
That's the least of their potential roadblocks, imo.
At the time of the Children of Dune miniseries he was a complete unknown. They needed a big name like Susan Sarandon to anchor everything around, just like with William Hurt in the first one.
It seems like such a natural choice to get James McAvoy back now that he's become a big star. This time, the big name in the cast would actually be playing the main character!
The producers of the two miniseries were trying to get another movie of the first book made several years ago. Paramount got a four-year option on it starting in 2007, with Peter Berg and then Pierre Morel attached to direct, but nothing ever happened.
Frank Herbert's grandson Byron Merritt is the moderator of the official Dune messageboards. Not long after Paramount's option expired, he mentioned that a big name production company (he couldn't say who's) wanted to make the first three books into a film trilogy. But that was already a couple years ago.
It's worth mentioning that Dino wanted David to come back and film the next two books, something which proved all but impossible after the first one flopped hard at the box office.
I kinda see that movie as the Ralph Bakshi LotR of Dune. I think it's gonna take someone as passionate about the material as Peter Jackson and his cohorts were about Tolkien for us to ever see another big screen adaptation.
The recent Jodorowsky's Dune documentary got the director of Waltz with Bashir thinking about a potential animated movie adaptation.
In the meantime, television has become a much more viable medium. With Syfy channel taking on bigger stuff like 3001 and Childhood's End, the Game of Thrones producers doing Red Mars as a series and Jonathan Nolan spearheading a Foundation series at HBO, it would seem like an ideal time to revisit Arrakis.
I'm not gonna lie, though. I'd much rather see this get the big budget, big screen redo like LotR had. But even with the right people it's gonna be tricky getting it made and getting it out there into theaters with a hundred different franchises already competing with each other.
On the other hand, we're potentially getting four whole movies made of Stephen King's The Stand, so I guess anything's possible....