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(io9) Strange "Dune" remake gets a hotshot new director...wait, I'm sorry, we have to endure another Dune remake? But, whoever controls the rights controls the Duneiverse, I suppose   (io9.com) divider line 113
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2010-01-04 11:00:06 PM
Another remake of Dune? Well it gives me an excuse to post this.

i23.photobucket.com
 
2010-01-04 11:03:42 PM
Claymation Dune.

LET'S HAVE IT.
 
2010-01-04 11:35:23 PM
I don't think it will ever get better than David Lynch's movie. Yeah ... I know that's fightin words to some ... So be it. It's the only thing Lynch ever did that was worth a damn anyway.
 
2010-01-04 11:52:56 PM
The way to do Dune right would be for HBO to produce it as a mini-series with about 100x the budget SciFi had for theirs.

I didn't see Taken, so I don't know anything about this guy. He was the cinematographer on the first Transporter movie, but the to do Dune "right" doesn't mean making the battles bigger or better, but the political intrigue and peculiar culture more vivid.
 
2010-01-04 11:53:56 PM
bighasbeen: but the way to do Dune "right"

Boom goes the dynamite.
 
2010-01-04 11:59:07 PM
bighasbeen: I didn't see Taken, so I don't know anything about this guy

Taken was the money. It was violent as hell but it was also smart. Qui Gon outsmarted the bad guys while popping a cap in their ass.
 
2010-01-05 12:04:17 AM
Mugato: bighasbeen: I didn't see Taken, so I don't know anything about this guy

Taken was the money. It was violent as hell but it was also smart. Qui Gon outsmarted the bad guys while popping a cap in their ass.


See, I had an inkling that I would like it, but on general principles I avoid any abducted white girl movies.
 
2010-01-05 12:08:43 AM
bighasbeen: Mugato: bighasbeen: I didn't see Taken, so I don't know anything about this guy

Taken was the money. It was violent as hell but it was also smart. Qui Gon outsmarted the bad guys while popping a cap in their ass.

See, I had an inkling that I would like it, but on general principles I avoid any abducted white girl movies.


Well it's set in Europe and the kidnappers go after mostly American travelers and the blunt truth is that white girls are more in demand so there really wasn't any other way to do it.
 
2010-01-05 12:33:59 AM
bighasbeen: The way to do Dune right would be for HBO to produce it as a mini-series with about 100x the budget SciFi had for theirs.

I didn't see Taken, so I don't know anything about this guy. He was the cinematographer on the first Transporter movie, but the to do Dune "right" doesn't mean making the battles bigger or better, but the political intrigue and peculiar culture more vivid.


Morel is one of Luc Besson's corral of directors. He has been a cinematographer for several of Besson's projects, and he knows how to shoot tight, on budget, and is firmly in the camp of Besson's new breed of French Action Movie Director. Very much hands on, very involved, and he knows how to shoot action scenes, and on the hop. The crazy ass parkour scenes in District 13? Thank Morel's camera work. Great guy to have to frame a shot, and to plan a shot. He is very much in the Besson school for building stories with emotional content, as opposed to just explosions.

He may have a chance to do this fairly well. I'd rather see Dune done as an HBO series--because I think that the execs there would do it right, but if Morel is involved, that would mean that Besson would be a consultant in fact, if not actually titled for the film, and that is chock full of WIN in my book.
 
2010-01-05 12:34:32 AM
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
 
2010-01-05 12:41:15 AM
bighasbeen: Mugato: bighasbeen: I didn't see Taken, so I don't know anything about this guy

Taken was the money. It was violent as hell but it was also smart. Qui Gon outsmarted the bad guys while popping a cap in their ass.

See, I had an inkling that I would like it, but on general principles I avoid any abducted white girl movies.


You missed out. It was very well done. Built the film from relationships, and maybe it's the fact that I'm a father, but building the relationships up made the whole thing sing. Famke Jansen played the perfect ex-wife, with a great deal of nuance. Liam Neeson was introduced as a father first, and a retired spy later. It was one of my favorite films of last year, period. Action or otherwise. Mind you, I liked Red Belt for the same layering of characters with action.

Taken wasn't just a thug with guns, and this is very much in the same Luc Besson written vein of Leon or Wasabi of surprising depth of emotion in what are essentially action films. Morel is very much one of his proteges and I think that the approach worked very well in this case.
 
2010-01-05 12:57:42 AM
bighasbeen: The way to do Dune right would be for HBO to produce it as a mini-series with about 100x the budget SciFi had for theirs.

I didn't see Taken, so I don't know anything about this guy. He was the cinematographer on the first Transporter movie, but the to do Dune "right" doesn't mean making the battles bigger or better, but the political intrigue and peculiar culture more vivid.


I think this is about right too. But it takes a very special touch.

How many Hobbit flicks were fired off in one format or another and LOTR got the closest to creating a real feel for the stories.

I don't really expect this to go any better than Lynch really.
 
2010-01-05 01:51:22 AM
www.dvhardware.net

/Oblig
 
2010-01-05 01:53:00 AM
chemical_angel: I don't think it will ever get better than David Lynch's movie. Yeah ... I know that's fightin words to some ... So be it. It's the only thing Lynch ever did that was worth a damn anyway.

No THOSE are the fighting words. I can understand disliking most of his work, but if you can't love Blue Velvet, the first season of Twin Peaks and the first 2/3rds of Mullholland Drive I don't want to know you!

Elephant Man was alright too.
 
2010-01-05 01:57:45 AM
Mugato: Another remake of Dune? Well it gives me an excuse to post this.

St. Alia of the Knife grew up right purty.
 
2010-01-05 02:00:22 AM
will this be just the first of the frank herbert 'dune' novels or all six of the original frank herbert 'dune' novels done as a miniseries?

james gandolfini as the baron harrokonen, anybody?
 
2010-01-05 02:05:01 AM
I saw David Lynch's Dune after reading the first few books and his adaptation was imperfect to say the least. That being said, the style of the movie was so overwhelmingly powerful that I really have no conception of how I originally viewed the book. It was one of the few adaptations where the director expressed a vision of the source material that I preferred to my own vision, at least in the style department.
 
2010-01-05 02:10:33 AM
JasonOfOrillia: I saw David Lynch's Dune after reading the first few books and his adaptation was imperfect to say the least. That being said, the style of the movie was so overwhelmingly powerful that I really have no conception of how I originally viewed the book. It was one of the few adaptations where the director expressed a vision of the source material that I preferred to my own vision, at least in the style department.

I read all the books after seeing the movie. So, I think the movie is just as good as the book.
 
2010-01-05 02:27:02 AM
Dune is my favorite scifi book, but I really can't say that another adaptation of it excites me very much. I'll probably watch it if it happens, just...why? There's already two at least decent ones (I much preferred the scifi channel mini-series).
 
2010-01-05 02:42:56 AM
If the remake is truer to the book regarding close combat ( ie. hardly any guns), I'll be happy...

It's a minor nit that I had both with the David Lynch film and with the Sci-fi miniseries.

/ Sardaukar used shields and blades...
// Fremen fought with crysknives, no shields...
/// using a lasgun around a shield is a VERY bad idea...
 
2010-01-05 02:45:06 AM
Bill Frist: chemical_angel: I don't think it will ever get better than David Lynch's movie. Yeah ... I know that's fightin words to some ... So be it. It's the only thing Lynch ever did that was worth a damn anyway.

No THOSE are the fighting words. I can understand disliking most of his work, but if you can't love Blue Velvet, the first season of Twin Peaks and the first 2/3rds of Mullholland Drive I don't want to know you!

Elephant Man was alright too.



Also throw in The Straight Story and Wild At Heart.
 
2010-01-05 02:57:13 AM
Bill Frist: chemical_angel: I don't think it will ever get better than David Lynch's movie. Yeah ... I know that's fightin words to some ... So be it. It's the only thing Lynch ever did that was worth a damn anyway.

No THOSE are the fighting words. I can understand disliking most of his work, but if you can't love Blue Velvet, the first season of Twin Peaks and the first 2/3rds of Mullholland Drive I don't want to know you!

Elephant Man was alright too.


Dune and Elephant Man are Lynch's most coherent movies.

Here's a story: There is a cardboard sheet in a museum somewhere in France which has suggestive cutouts (in the crotch area). There are childlike paintings on it. It's by Picasso, and I'm pretty sure Picasso stuck his member through that cutout.

Every time I think about a David Lynch movie I think about that particular work by Picasso.
 
2010-01-05 02:59:25 AM
People really overrate the weirdness of Lynch. Sometimes he is incoherent, but stuff like Twin Peaks or Blue Velvet shouldn't really be blowing anyone's mind (i mean except in how awesome they are.)
 
2010-01-05 03:11:40 AM
Bill Frist: People really overrate the weirdness of Lynch. Sometimes he is incoherent, but stuff like Twin Peaks or Blue Velvet shouldn't really be blowing anyone's mind (i mean except in how awesome they are.)

Blue Velvet is a good movie, but it gets weird. I think Mulholland Dr is a reissue, and is a movie I've never heard a satisfactory explanation of the plot.

I don't remember anything about Twin Peaks because I've had too much wine since then.
 
2010-01-05 03:24:41 AM
I wish we had Star Trek level computers cause I would love to see the style of Lynch's film married to some of the closer adaptations of the book done in the SciFi mini-series. Just toss them in and tell the computer to mix it together so I could watch it.
 
2010-01-05 03:25:36 AM
It certainly gets weird, but I think some weird is good. Dune has plenty of weirdness.

Mulholland Dr. is an odd case. I think the first 2/3rds are farking fantastic beyond belief, but the the last 1/3rd which sums up the plot sucks. However, most peopel don't seem to know that the first 2/3rds of the film was a TV pilot. It was gonna be a new twin peaks. The show got turned down and Lynch had to toss on some random ending.

So yeah, the ending isn't really satisifactory because it was supposed to be a long TV series, not a film.
 
2010-01-05 03:35:32 AM
They should get this guy, he wins awards:

twitter.aryans.us
 
2010-01-05 03:37:57 AM
Bill Frist: I think the first 2/3rds are farking fantastic beyond belief,

Including the vacuum cleaner scene? What is that about? And why is Billy Ray Cyrus in that movie? The guy who throws up his coffee is Angelo Badalamenti who wrote the music. What does the cowboy represent?

Most people think it's a dream movie. Ah hah! I've figured out Mullholland Dr! I think that's ludicrous. But it's a darn good movie nonetheless.
 
2010-01-05 03:46:48 AM
Sun God: Including the vacuum cleaner scene? What is that about? And why is Billy Ray Cyrus in that movie? The guy who throws up his coffee is Angelo Badalamenti who wrote the music. What does the cowboy represent?

Most people think it's a dream movie. Ah hah! I've figured out Mullholland Dr! I think that's ludicrous. But it's a darn good movie nonetheless.


I'm fairly convinced it's the mashup of thoughts in the dying mind of the blond, after she blew herself away. But yeah, it's highly subjective.

The vacuum cleaner scene was just good laughs.
 
2010-01-05 03:53:54 AM
GhostFish: The vacuum cleaner scene was just good laughs.

Amazingly, there is a website:

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/10clues.htm

You know what's scary? It is that beast thingy coming out behind the dumpster. If you aren't scared by that, you're on some form of medication.
 
2010-01-05 04:06:00 AM
Newsflash: it's not a "remake" if it's being based directly on the book. "Remake" would only apply if it were based directly on the first film.

The All-Powerful Atheismo: They should get this guy, he wins awards:

Dune may have been a POS, but I challenge most folks to watch Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive and not love them.
 
2010-01-05 04:11:31 AM
WFern: Dune may have been a POS, but I challenge most folks to watch Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive and not love them.

You forgot Lost Highway.
 
2010-01-05 04:18:51 AM
chemical_angel: I don't think it will ever get better than David Lynch's movie. Yeah ... I know that's fightin words to some ... So be it. It's the only thing Lynch ever did that was worth a damn anyway.

I thought I was the only one.
 
2010-01-05 04:29:07 AM
bmfderek: I thought I was the only one.

It was the end of Sting's career. He then thought he was the only person on Earth who knew about music and then made some of them.
 
2010-01-05 04:40:02 AM
wait, I'm sorry, we have to endure...

No, you don't have to...but you will...and you will biatch about it...
 
2010-01-05 04:50:51 AM
I've heard that the reason Lynch's version of Dune had some problems during production, mainly along the line of Lynch wanting to make as close an adaptation of the novel as he could and the studio wanting him to just make it into another space opera a la Star Wars. Which, from what I heard, was why there where things like the sound weapons stuck into the movie. I don't know if any of this is true or not but it would explain why Lynch had himself credited as Alan Smithee on some versions.

The only other thing I want to say is the Lynch's version had the stillsuits perfect. The SciFi miniseries' suits sucked. Like the movie or hate it you have to agree the the Stillsuits in the Lynch film were 100% spot on.
 
2010-01-05 04:59:46 AM
strategothird: The only other thing I want to say is the Lynch's version had the stillsuits perfect. The SciFi miniseries' suits sucked. Like the movie or hate it you have to agree the the Stillsuits in the Lynch film were 100% spot on.

That's hard to evaluate.
 
2010-01-05 05:05:54 AM
Sun God: strategothird: The only other thing I want to say is the Lynch's version had the stillsuits perfect. The SciFi miniseries' suits sucked. Like the movie or hate it you have to agree the the Stillsuits in the Lynch film were 100% spot on.

That's hard to evaluate.


not really.
the novels specifically mentioned head covering in stillsuits. lynch's stillsuits lacked head gear.
so, the former assertion is complete bullshiat.
 
2010-01-05 05:19:57 AM
DerekSD: the novels specifically mentioned head covering in stillsuits. lynch's stillsuits lacked head gear.

That's because a leading actor needs to show his face. Happens all the time. When was the last time you saw Tom Cruise hide his face?
 
2010-01-05 05:27:38 AM
When you look at DUNE as a David Lynch movie (even the Alan Smithee recut), it
comes out much better than when you try to think of it as an adapation of
the novel.

But, really: the world needs this like it needs another collective hole in
our heads. Escpecially since it means that Herbert's idiot pimping children
will get money from it.
 
2010-01-05 05:34:23 AM
I want to see God Emperor as a movie just because the giant hybrid worm squashing people would be amusing.
 
2010-01-05 05:55:06 AM
Let's see if they can at least get the eyes right this time. They don't farking glow.
 
2010-01-05 06:06:24 AM
Sci-Fi version for the authenticity.
Lynch version for capturing the feel.

i can has BOTH?
 
2010-01-05 06:29:04 AM
Just read the damn book.
 
2010-01-05 06:31:41 AM
BalugaJoe: Just read the damn book.

Right, because we all have to do it your way. Sorry! i'll tell them to stop trying to make money and entertaining people.
 
2010-01-05 06:58:07 AM
chemical_angel: I don't think it will ever get better than David Lynch's movie. Yeah ... I know that's fightin words to some ... So be it. It's the only thing Lynch ever did that was worth a damn anyway.

Well sir, I have to disagree. Worst movie ever.

www.trendgrinder.com

/amazing book though.
 
2010-01-05 07:01:03 AM
"Dune is my favorite scifi book, but I really can't say that another adaptation of it excites me very much. "

Agreed, why can't they just tell the next chapter of the story instead. Telling the next part of the story worked out pretty good for those Lord of the Rings guys, give it a try.
 
2010-01-05 07:03:17 AM
Kurmudgeon: "Dune is my favorite scifi book, but I really can't say that another adaptation of it excites me very much. "

Agreed, why can't they just tell the next chapter of the story instead. Telling the next part of the story worked out pretty good for those Lord of the Rings guys, give it a try.


This is a good point. How 'bout they just make a miniseries from book 4 on? I want to see stranded space jews.
 
2010-01-05 08:08:17 AM
They should give it to George Lucas, I bet he'd make a damn good Dune movie.
 
2010-01-05 08:11:17 AM
the original lynch dune (not the recut "alan smithee" version) is actually a pretty great movie. and it boasts some of the best production design in any movie ever. the sets and costumes are incredible.
 
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