Topic: Dune

Who else is excited for the Movie? The new trailer looks phenomenal and I ama huge fan of the book. Any other Dune Fans here.

I’m very excited for it. But I have to say, I thought there was a new game coming out that I wasn’t aware of and opened this thread so fast 😅

I'm ready for a new take on the Spacing Guild folding space from IX. I hope it's good.

I avoided the 80's movie for so long. But it's pretty awesome. Love the beginning.

Never read the book but the movie looks real nice, Can't wait for it to come out. the story itself from the trailers already gots me hooked.

@Snatcher the first book is worth picking up, especially if you have interest in the story

@Pirate1 Ok I will think about it, thanks!

Honestly the trailer makes the movie look really subdued and dull, in terms of the cinematography and lighting. It looks like they sent Timothée Chalamet to war and then filmed him. But that’s not gonna stop me from seeing the film, and I think it has serious potential.

The book was a bit draggy for me, but the whole idea is brilliant and carried on through it, was good, but didnt carry on with the rest, anyone think I should?

Loved the 80s movie as the visuals were BRILLIANT for the time

Can't wait for the new one, on purpose have avoided the trailers as want to go into this film completely fresh

I'd recommend the original six Frank Herbert books. They're towards the more literary end of SF and not always the easiest reading - God Emperor is especially challenging - but combine to make one of the most wonderful and terrifying imagined universes in fiction.

Brian Herbert, his son, and Kevin J. Anderson also wrote several other books based on notes that he left, but they're nowhere near the same standard.

Fairly certain I am the biggest DUNE fan on the entire staff. Allow me to present my credentials:

2020 original tribute EP:

2019 original tribute album:

2008 original tribute album:

Made for my alternate reality NL feature:

I often replay both DUNE (from Cryo) and DUNE 2 during the Summer holidays. Sure, I know them by heart but I still find them a blissful experience. I've read all the books up to "God Emperor of Dune" and watched the Davyd Lynch movie way before I had the proper age to fully grasp it. The Sy Fi miniseries is also very good.

As for Dennis Villeneuve DUNE, the delay hit me hard, it was one of the only things that would save 2020 for me. Now were are mere months away, October will be an incredible (Metroid Dread, Switch OLED, "DUNE", Foundation (starts in late September) and last but not least my birthday!). Dennis was able to do something impossible with Blade Runner 2049, deemend by many asn an impossible sequel so I am fairly confident that he will be able to make the most incredible DUNE ever. I am mostly curious to see my younger friends having no clue whats going on that trailer and I must continue not to spoil them. They will got bu the big-name cast but when they leave their first session, they will be absolutely aching for the second one because the plot and character have such a timeless appeal. Even if everything somehow fails they are still not one the three different soundtracks from Hans Zimmer coming up as soon as September.

Time to boot up DOSBOX me thinks...

Dune is one of my all-time favorite science fiction properties. But I find it difficult to be excited about Denis Villenueve's version of Dune when it's only half of the first book. I figure this movie will end shortly after Paul and Jessica escape their execution in the desert after the Harkonnen reclaim Arrakis.. However, I think the production quality will be higher than any previous movie adaption.

Blade Runner 2049 exceeded my expectations, so assume this movie will as well.

Probably slightly ahead of that point since in this latest trailer we can clearly see Paul and the Fremen warriors already disrupting spice mining operations, not only in the scene where the Fremen are seen rising from he sands to engage Harkonnen troops but also the lasguns blasts destroying an harvester and possibly its carryall with it . What I find oddly bizarre is that [spolier] Jamis seems to have been spared by Paul and is seen alive after the rescue [/spoiler] and the complete absence of Feyd-Rautha in this first movie, not even in the imdb credits dispelling rumours that might be a special secret cast .

Dune is one of my favorite sci-fi stories so I'm definitely excited for this. Alexander Skarsgard looks stunning as Baron Harkonnen

@Magician Honestly I'd rather this be a two-parter than trying to cram such a detailed story with heaps of lore and characterization into a single film even if it was like 3 hours

That's exactly why the 80's movie fell flat on its face

@TheFrenchiestFry

Agreed.

My concern is Denis Villenueve's Dune falls flat and the second half is never delivered.

@Shiryu

I thought I read a headline a while back that leaked Feyd was going to be Tye Sheridan?

With Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villenueve managed to make a very beautiful film that I loved as much as the original. However, he totally missed the mark for managing to recreate the dystopia. Almost like he watched the original and the only thing he took away was 'cooool!'.

I'm sure Dune will have some wonderful cinematography. Really looking forward to it! MUAD'DIB!!!

For what it's worth, Dune was originally presented as two stories, Dune World and The Prophet of Dune, when it was serialized in Analog magazine.

I'm not sure if the film will be following the same structure exactly but there's at least a strong precedent for making it as a two-parter.

To go off at a tangent, is anyone familiar with Jodorowsky's attempt to make a Dune movie in the 1970s? It never got into production, but a massive amount of concept work was done and, for the most part, it looks fabulous. There have been a few books published and a documentary was made a few years back.

Villenueve will doubtless be a lot more pedestrian in his approach, but at least he's going to get it finished.

@Matt_Barber that was a good documentary. I would have loved to see how that all ended up.