I read with interest this morning actor-director Peter Berg’s ruminations on his in-development movie version of Dune, science fiction author Frank Herbert’s epic, complex, and Read the full post.
Aug 6
2009
12:10 PM ET
Peter Berg is directing a new 'Dune' movie? Good luck! You'll need it.
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I’ve heard a rumor that I’ve started that KJA will be asked to write the novelization for the film.
it can’t be done.people talk about the impossibility of lotr and how that was pulled off but that’s different in that lotr was really just an issue of scale and time/money.once the technology caught up to the vision it was a given.not so with dune,the reason being so much of the story relies upon an understanding of a very complex society that has some shadows of our own but mostly is completely new and foreign.reading it is immersive and it simply is not possible to capture that onto film.especially not a film helmed by the director of ‘the rundown’(i mean,seriously?).and rob patterson rumoured as the lead?i can feel the vomit kicking in my stomach already.some things can’t be done and others shouldn’t be done…another swing at a dune film is both impossible and inadvisable.if you cannot add to a piece of art then you only detract from it(ie his son’s horrid exploitation of his last name and his father’s genius).
I so agree with you. Brian and kevin turned the series into a mockery.
When I read the first few, they seemed very cheesy , kinda like the old 60′s Batman series show. With the big POW!, BAM! words popping up…
The new stuff is just plain horrid & brain is doing nothing but being a profiteer on his father’s legacy.