How? For one thing, the “Prelude to Dune” series is neither consistent with Legends of Dune or the Frank Herbert canon, and really adds nothing to the series.
For another, outside of the first four1 Frank Herbert books, the rest of the canon is awful.
1 As noted elsewhere, some other people mistakenly believe that this number should be three.
Yep, to all that.
I’d think another problem for film makers would be Dune’s (the book) ending. SPOILER ALERT!!!: Dune ends with a hand-to-hand battle between Paul and Fayd Rautha. That sort of thing does not amount to a Hollywood blockbuster ending, which explains Lynch’s movie ending (the idiotic conjuring up of rain by Paul).
YOU KEEP YOUR “FACTS” TO YOURSELF, “NATURALIZED” “CITIZEN”!
I agree that it’s a book about ideas. But then Denis Villeneuve did Arrival, which is a movie about ideas and their effect on society where a lot of the action happens in the main character’s mind. I would argue that if anyone is going to direct Dune, Villeneuve is our guy.
the script for the Dune XXX remake parody?
Hey baby, how would you like to “ride the worm?”
Looks like my sleeper has awakened.
This might be crazy, but how about THIS for a trilogy.
From the outset until the Atreides are wiped out, but for Paul and Jessica fleeing into the desert.
From Paul claiming his place among the Fremen to the end of Dune Messiah. (This lends it the form of tragedy, but otherwise faithful enough)
Children of Dune AND God Emperor. Basically take God Emperor and structure in Children of Dune as flashbacks.
Paul claiming his place with the Fremen through the Stoneburner/wandering off into the desert is a LOT of ground to cover in one movie.
I would think it more likely to mimic the Siffy “Children” miniseries and combine Messiah and Children… The problem there being the loss of almost all the main characters between movies 2 and 3.
Consider that the movies can be a good 3 hours long and not be excessive for the genre.
(LOTR is 9 theatrical hours total, 12 on the extended Blu Ray. 4 hour cuts!)
But I agree that basically the best thing would be to flesh out the original Dune book into three equally-balanced episodes, then Messiah/Children could be three in its own right if they’re still cooking, perhaps with God Emperor as the last of them.
Until there’s a Greg Bear movie, maybe you can scrape by on this:
http://www.cgsociety.org/cgsarchive/challenge/eon/
(3d graphics contest on the theme of the book Eon, from About a decade ago.)
Works for me! I had the same idea for the first two movies.
Rendezvous would be a little … bare, no? How about the city and the stars?
Isn’t that pretty much exactly what the Mini-series did?
Welcome eye candy! Thx.
For my money, the internal dialogue of the characters just isn’t necessary for any adaptation. It didn’t work in the Lynch version, and one didn’t miss it at all in the miniseries version. Basically the inner dialogue is just “character subtext” – something to be conveyed in performance.
DAMN! I was going to post a video of the live-action stuff and claim it was an early 90’s film.
Dune is from 1984. And based on Arrival, expectations are in check. Not a big fan of it.
As much as I like Children, I think God Emperor would work better as a frame story where Leto reveals the Golden Path (as long form flashbacks to Children) to Siona. Xanatos Gambit style.
It would change the book canon but no movie would be able to avoid changing canon somewhat anyway.
