Film and television adaptations: Dune (1984 film), directed by David Lynch. Dune (2000 miniseries) Children of Dune (2003 miniseries) Dune (The first film in a planned duology, directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set for a Christmas 2020 release.) Video game adaptations: Dune (1992) Dune II (1992) Dune 2000 (1998) Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001).
'“The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own.
Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? Yet, I occurred.” -Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah'Recommended Dune subreddits:- a sub for sharing and appreciating Dune related artwork- focused discussion of the prequels and other Dune books by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. The New Dune Adaptation Filming has!Hey folks, seeing as how there are so many posts regarding the movie regularly hitting the front page of this subreddit - often with the same questions and answers being repeated in the comments - I decided to put together something a little more comprehensive. I was just having this conversation at work like an hour ago. Its bothersome to me how many people feel like they are owed something from filmmakers just because they may love a franchise. I miss the time before the internet when if we wanted info about a film we would need to buy a Starlog or Fangoria.
I actually enjoy the idea of going to see a film without any foreknowledge. Plus I hate having to see all the bullshit comments or YouTube videos about how these people would have made things better. I really don't care what some dude who works at Lowes has to say about the cinematic quality of any film. I hate having to see all the bullshit comments or YouTube videos about how these people would have made things better. I really don't care what some dude who works at Lowes has to say about the cinematic quality of any film.so don't watch their videos.personally i love hearing different ideas for how a story could have gone. The youtuber known as 'Nostalgia Critic' has a pretty good series of videos called. His version of SW:Return of the Jedi was really great in my opinion, it gives me goosebumps every time he describes his proposed ending.The vast majority of the insightful comments left on probably were written by the 'guy/girl who works at Lowes' and not some movie industry veteran.
The crazy shit Zimmer did with that pipe organ in Interstellar would be so cool in Dune.But for me, what's gonna make or break the soundtrack is whether or not they work in some Middle Eastern inspiration into it. Remember that the Fremen are 'Zensunni Wanderers'.
They speak a late dialect of Arabic. There's gotta be some Arabic influence on their musical themes or else it's just gonna sound like they're.
Playing Toto for some odd reason. (don't get me wrong, I fucking LOVE the Lynch films' soundtrack, but was Toto really the right choice?
They weren’t on Earth anymore, anyway. They were on a deadly, dust-dry battleground planet called Arrakis. In Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi novel, Arrakis is the only known location of the galaxy’s most vital resource, the mind-altering, time-and-space-warping “spice.” In the new film adaptation, directed by Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, Chalamet stars as the young royal Paul Atreides, the proverbial stranger in a very strange land, who’s fighting to protect this hostile new home even as it threatens to destroy him.
Humans are the aliens on Arrakis. The dominant species on that world are immense, voracious sandworms that burrow through the barren drifts like subterranean dragons.
For the infinite seas of sand that give the story its title, the production moved to remote regions outside Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, where the temperatures rivaled the fiction in Herbert’s story. “I remember going out of my room at 2 a.m., and it being probably 100 degrees,” says Chalamet. During the shoot, he and the other actors were costumed in what the world of Dune calls “stillsuits”—thick, rubbery armor that preserves the body’s moisture, even gathering tiny bits from the breath exhaled through the nose. In the story, the suits are life-giving.
In real life, they were agony. “The shooting temperature was sometimes 120 degrees,” says Chalamet. “They put a cap on it out there, if it gets too hot. I forget what the exact number is, but you can’t keep working.” The circumstances fed the story they were there to tell: “In a really grounded way, it was helpful to be in the stillsuits and to be at that level of exhaustion.”. It wouldn’t be Dune if it were easy. Herbert’s novel became a sci-fi touchstone in the 1960s, heralded for its world-building and ecological subtext, as well as its intricate (some say impenetrable) plot focusing on two families struggling for supremacy over Arrakis. The book created ripples that many see in everything from Star Wars to Alien to Game of Thrones.
Still, for decades, the novel itself has defied adaptation. In the ’70s, the wild man experimental filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky mounted a quest to film it, but Hollywood considered the project too risky. David Lynch brought Dune to the big screen in a 1984 feature, but it was derided as an incomprehensible mess and a blight on his filmography. In 2000, a Dune miniseries on what’s now the SyFy channel became a hit for the cable network, but it is now only dimly remembered.“I would not agree to make this adaptation of the book with one single movie,” says Villeneuve. “The world is too complex. It’s a world that takes its power in details.”Villeneuve intends to create a Dune that has so far only existed in the imagination of readers.
The key, he says, was to break the sprawling narrative in half. When Dune hits theaters on December 18, it will only be half the novel, with Warner Bros. Agreeing to tell the story in two films, similar to the studio’s approach with Stephen King’s It and It Chapter Two. “I would not agree to make this adaptation of the book with one single movie,” says Villeneuve. “The world is too complex. It’s a world that takes its power in details.”. For Villeneuve, this 55-year-old story about a planet being mined to death was not merely a space adventure, but a prophecy.
“No matter what you believe, Earth is changing, and we will have to adapt,” he says. “That’s why I think that Dune, this book, was written in the 20th century. It was a distant portrait of the reality of the oil and the capitalism and the exploitation—the overexploitation—of Earth. Today, things are just worse. It’s a coming-of-age story, but also a call for action for the youth.”. The director has also expanded the role of Paul’s mother, Lady Jessica.
She’s a member of the Bene Gesserit, a sect of women who can read minds, control people with their voice (again, a precursor to the Jedi mind trick), and manipulate the balance of power in the universe. In the script, which Villeneuve wrote with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts, she is even more fearsome than before. The studio’s plot synopsis describes her as a “warrior priestess.” As Villeneuve jokes, “It’s better than ‘space nun.’ ”. In an intriguing change to the source material, Villeneuve has also updated Dr. Liet Kynes, the leading ecologist on Arrakis and an independent power broker amid the various warring factions. Although always depicted as a white man, the character is now played by Sharon Duncan-Brewster ( Rogue One), a black woman.
“What Denis had stated to me was there was a lack of female characters in his cast, and he had always been very feminist, pro-women, and wanted to write the role for a woman,” Duncan-Brewster says. “This human being manages to basically keep the peace amongst many people. Women are very good at that, so why can’t Kynes be a woman? Why shouldn’t Kynes be a woman?”. As fans will know, there’s a vast menagerie of other characters populating Dune.
There are humans called “mentats,” augmented with computerlike minds. Paul is mentored by two bravado warriors Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck, played by Jason Momoa and Josh Brolin. Dave Bautista plays a sinister Harkonnen enforcer Glossu Rabban, and Charlotte Rampling has a key role as the Bene Gesserit reverend mother. The list goes on.
In the seemingly unlivable wilds of Arrakis, Javier Bardem leads the Fremen tribe as Stilgar, and Zendaya costars as a mystery woman named Chani, who haunts Paul in his dreams as a vision with glowing blue eyes.