The great thing about being a Dune fan is that you can be a fan of Lynch, SciFi, this new one, or the Jodorowsky version, and still get upset.
Interesting take, but if it’s time for Hollywood to make a sci-fi epic with a nonbinary protagonist it would probably make more sense just to give Ann Leckie’s Ancillary series the screen adaptation it deserves instead of changing Dune, which honestly doesn’t need another screen adaptation anyway.
For all its strengths, Herbert’s Dune universe posits a human society where gender roles are even more pronounced than they are in our world and any hint of homosexuality is pretty much left to the realm of perverts and hedonists. Leckie’s Ancillary universe includes a whole range of human societies with differing norms regarding gender identity, biological sex and preferred pronouns.
Is this Dune production under pressure to be the definitive version? Or is there room for experimentation-- because in ten or fifteen years, some other person will revisit it, and commit their own heretical readings of the source text?
So… Heretics of Dune?
I can’t imagine a Dune V, as it would depend on a Dune IV, and I’m not sure that’s film-able.
