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Would anyone want a Dune remake?
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I say give it to Joss Whedon. Despite Serenity's commercial failure, it was a damn good science fiction movie, and I think Whedon has a grasp on the weirdness required to make Dune both faithful to the novel and a nice homage to Lynch's version.
Either him or Stephen Soderbergh. I thought he did a great job with Solaris.
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Originally posted by: Jay
Now that we live in a time when studios have a goal to turn everything into a trilogy or franchise, Dune could definitely get the budget/cast/director/treatment it deserves.
I say give it to Joss Whedon. Despite Serenity's commercial failure, it was a damn good science fiction movie, and I think Whedon has a grasp on the weirdness required to make Dune both faithful to the novel and a nice homage to Lynch's version.
Either him or Stephen Soderbergh. I thought he did a great job with Solaris.
Now that we live in a time when studios have a goal to turn everything into a trilogy or franchise, Dune could definitely get the budget/cast/director/treatment it deserves.
I say give it to Joss Whedon. Despite Serenity's commercial failure, it was a damn good science fiction movie, and I think Whedon has a grasp on the weirdness required to make Dune both faithful to the novel and a nice homage to Lynch's version.
Either him or Stephen Soderbergh. I thought he did a great job with Solaris.
I had not even thought of Joss Whedon, but I agree. My interest of Dune stemed from my interest in Firefly. I do not know why, but there is something about Dune that I like, and when I watch Firefly I think of how good Dune could have been if it was done like Firefly. Whedon did not rush character development so he could have more action he let the story develope naturally, and Dune is a story that can not be rushed in its presentation. I wonder if Whedon is a fan of Dune?
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A new adaptation of the novel would not be a remake anymore than adapting any other existing book.
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Herbert's level of involvement kind of helps to ignore things like the weirding modules, but as a friend of a friend of mine replied, "Frank Herbert was also drugged out of his mind in the last years of his life. What's your point?"
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
I thought the SCI-FI channel's TV miniseries of DUNE was more or less the remake.
I thought the SCI-FI channel's TV miniseries of DUNE was more or less the remake.
THEY EVEN DID CHILDREN OF DUNE. THEY WERE BOTH DONE AS A MINISERIES. THEY STAYED FAITHFUL TO THE BOOKS. WHY REMAKE THEM AGAIN ???
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No thanks. I'll pass.
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Originally posted by: Marvolo
Maybe someone like Peter Jackson who would stay as faithful to the source material as possible.
Maybe someone like Peter Jackson who would stay as faithful to the source material as possible.
I had sparkling water coming out of my nose when I read this. Painful. Anyone who thinks PJ was faithful to LOTR needs to read the books again. I also worry that PJ would take his director's cut hubris to the hilt with something like this and produce a film even more bloated and overlong than King Kong was.
I like the idea of getting Joss Whedon invloved, and I also liked the miniseries approach. I'd like to see an adaptation of Dune financed by HBO, Showtime of Cinemax with a similar approach to that taken by Rome.
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I had sparkling water coming out of my nose when I read this. Painful. Anyone who thinks PJ was faithful to LOTR needs to read the books again. I also worry that PJ would take his director's cut hubris to the hilt with something like this and produce a film even more bloated and overlong than King Kong was.
I like the idea of getting Joss Whedon invloved, and I also liked the miniseries approach. I'd like to see an adaptation of Dune financed by HBO, Showtime of Cinemax with a similar approach to that taken by Rome.
Originally posted by: Marvolo
Maybe someone like Peter Jackson who would stay as faithful to the source material as possible.
Maybe someone like Peter Jackson who would stay as faithful to the source material as possible.
I had sparkling water coming out of my nose when I read this. Painful. Anyone who thinks PJ was faithful to LOTR needs to read the books again. I also worry that PJ would take his director's cut hubris to the hilt with something like this and produce a film even more bloated and overlong than King Kong was.
I like the idea of getting Joss Whedon invloved, and I also liked the miniseries approach. I'd like to see an adaptation of Dune financed by HBO, Showtime of Cinemax with a similar approach to that taken by Rome.
Peter Jackson deviated alot from the novel yes, but you try adapting a 1,000 page novel. Some things that work on paper do not work on film.
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Only if it was directed by Lynch and even more insane then the first film.
It would also have to have another epic rock score or I am not interested.
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Marvolo said:
Would anyone be interested in a competant director trying to adapt this book again?
This implies Lynch isn't/wasn't a competent director who had complete control over how his adaptation was made. The problem with this, however, is
A. Lynch isn't incompetent, just unconventional (Well, Inland Empire was a piece of ugly shit, but I'm remaining hopeful that that was just an unlucky fluke and he'll do a better job on his next big project.).
B. He didn't have full creative control over the movie he made. The movie that was released was far shorter than he wanted it to be, resulting in lots of unwelcome and unnecessary truncation.
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True. But I wish Lynch would settle down and release his own Director's Cut one of these days. Before the audio in all the missing footage rots away!
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ATMachine said:
True. But I wish Lynch would settle down and release his own Director's Cut one of these days. Before the audio in all the missing footage rots away!
Yeah that would be nice but given how badly things went for him on that film i get the impression he would just like to pretend that it never happened.