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The Director of VERY BAD THINGS, THE RUNDOWN and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Is Directing Frank Herbert’s DUNE For Paramount!!
I am – Hercules!!
How “The Kingdom” director Peter Berg was tapped to direct a Paramount remake of “Dune” is no doubt a tale to tell!
I confess much fondness for David Lynch’s 1984 Sting/Patrick Stewart/Alicia Witt version of the tale. A miniseries version followed in 2000.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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I dunno, we'll see...
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That being said, I am pretty stoked for Berg's take on the material. This could be a great movie.
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Fuck all involved with it. What is the secret of the spice? They will get that idiot from Fall-Out Boy for Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, watch
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Berg is the 2nd biggest ADD aesthetic shaky cam offender in town behind Paul Greengrass. Why blow all that dough on cgi and production design when the director is going to make certain that no shots linger longer than 1 second as the frame continually vibrates violently? His movies are all visually incoherent and hopefully he'll stop getting directorial gigs after this mismatch project bombs embarrasingly. Dude never should've quit his day job.
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I forgot how fucking hard it is to read any article that Variety prints. Jesus christ, drop the bullshit lingo and use english. You're not cool. You're fucking VARIETY.
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I love the Lynch movie, having never read the book. And then the miniseries seemed almost the same storywise so why keep going back?
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...Friday Night Lights was exellent, and even the Rundown and Kingdom were solid for what they were.
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I now that the search function on this site is still frelled, but...
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I love Lynch but his version was complete dogshit. The same thing can be said fo the mini-series. I really want a good version of Dune but I don't think Berg is the right man for the job at all. So maybe we fans will finally get a good version or this will just be more crap. I'm used to it by now anyway.
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I love the David Lynch version, but let's face it, it's bat-shit crazy! Let's hope this is good and maybe we'll get a cool, new sci-fi trilogy!
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Dune is UNFILMABLE! I was as exasperated as anyone when morons kept using that word about LOTR, but it's absolutely true. LOTR is dense, complex, and huge. Dune is dense, complex, huge, and with long, trippy-yet-thematically-vital stream -of-consciousness passages and twisty, impenetrable mini-treatises on the politics of corruption, not to mention all the conceptual burden of inventing a sci-fi universe with no computers. Oh, yeah, and several appendices worth of ecological science. Any attempt at condensing all of these is doomed to completely miss the point. Hey, Lynch's version had a lot going for it, including some inspired casting and interesting art design. But it FUCKING RAINS AT THE END!!! Further proof that no one capable of the logistics of getting this movie made can really penetrate it's philosophical core. If Hollywood can't make I, Robot with any of it's philosophical underpinnings intact, Dune doesn't have a chance.
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Mar 18, 2008 2:16:43 AM CDT
Dune is probably the greatest Sci-Fi novel I have ever read
by wingnut1a
I'd absolutely love to see a relatively faithful adaptation of it.. similar to LOTR. That being said, I really like the art direction of the Lynch version, but the theatrical release of it is almost incomprehensable towards the end. I keep hearing legend of a 5 hour version of Lynch's film.. any truth to that?
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damn right about I, Robot.. but there might be a magical screenwriter out there that is up to the task. Let's hope so.
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not David Lynch, 'cause he took his name off of that version. It sucks. You can find it on LD, and it plays on TV every once in a while...
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Stick to the books.
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I liked Very Bad Things, The Rundown was horrible and I haven't seen Friday Night Lights, but none of them make me think of Dune or a director I would want to make Dune. There is only one director that is capable of making an awesome Dune movie and that is Ridley Schott.
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The last good thing Peter Berg did was star in that silly movie "Shocker"... and, no, I'm speaking of any sort of euphemisms alluded towards. I'm speaking of the Mitch Pileggi fronted, Wes Craven Backed cheese fest which, despite all best intentions, had a pretty good metal soundtrack.
Well, none of this is either here nor there. Hopefully all of the above was a happy distraction from the idea that "Dune" is being re-made/re-imagined/re-treaded/re-re'd yet AGAIN!
I sure hope this site didn't switch to "Ain't It Guillable News" format over the commercial break... the above-mentioned "news clip" is about as bad as Bush announcing another four years of his regime via clever manuvering of the Bill of Rights........... meh... you get the idea....... I'm just drunkenly glad, GLAD I say, that someone decided that Dune was worthy of yet another effort... Arakis knows I wasn't able to sleep well since '86 thanks to Mr. Lynch and his Harkkonen bevy of evil-doers like Bluto w/a bad dye job, Sting wishing he'd had that kind of creativity for costumes on his concert tour of the same year, and Brad Douriff giving the tour de fource of his career...
nice eyebrows. And almost none of that crap was in Herbert's books. Gee... can't wait for yet another visual adaptation of this never-finished project!
Weirding module my skinny white ass.
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And yes... I realize not a lick of that made sense unless you're as drunk as I am. Who says that high-minded cinema snobs have to remain basement-dwelling tee totalers? I happen to enjoy Belgian ale... all 9.2% abv of most of 'em... so go bite Peter Berg's shiny non-metal ass.
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Despite being very different from the book I still think it's a worthy adaptation. It was certainly a lot better than the Sci-Fi channel's version (although their Children of Dune was excellent). Regardless of how different the plot was, the main story was there in Lynch's film and the casting/acting was spot on.
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Stop remaking movies and just show me Moebius' storyboard for Jodorowsky's unfinished movie. Just this.
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The Kingdom was an awful movie. Every second of it was preposterous and fake. The maericans are the heroes, the arabs (except for two of them) are totally inept. Yep, way to go. I can only imagine how they will desecrate the book, a book in which the good guys go into a Jihad to fight greater powers, and they do that with terrorists strike. But, hey, let's go GREEN and fuck the story!
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"Wonderland" was an ABC series created by Peter Berg and I did not even get the opportunity to watch one episode. That shit got pulled quick. Did any of you watch it? Was it any good?
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Well, there's six books in Herbert's series and then another six or so in the prequel series wrote by his son and Kevin J. Anderson. I'm just finishing off the last one in Herbert's original series, Chapter House Dune. These books are fucking incredible, but it will take one hell of a screenwriter/director/producer team to pull this off. There were some great visuals in Lynch's version but he just got it all very wrong. The subject matter of Dune is very relavent today with the situation in the middle east. The Fremen are descendant from Arabs with clear indications in their language and culture. And the struggle for the spice is pretty much a mirror of the struggle for oil today. But, whether or not an american film maker will chose to address this or instead just gloss over it to focus more on the action is anyones guess. Personally I reckon that they'll do the latter. The Kingdom was just another example of american/hollywood propaganda in the wake of the war in Iraq. (Much like Vantage Point. Man that movie made me sick!) These books are way too intellectual for your average hollywood big budget shit-fest. But, I'm still gonna hope against all the odds that they will make a good movie. And maybe they could cast Ray Winstone as Gurney Halleck...
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Here comes Peter Berg, auteur and genius filmmaker to show David Lynch where he went wrong. I can understand why people don't like Lynch's Dune but you've got to admit it's a beautiful, strange piece of work. The cinematography and production design are just mind-blowing. The visions/dream sequences are just incredible. There's a tone to the movie that is absolutely spot on. This new version will be a sci-fi shoot 'em up designed to launch a 'franchise' at Paramount. Why make it otherwise? I'll stick with Lynch thanks. Or read the book.
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Peter Berg was the bomb in Shocker.
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What a shame that such a potential franchise is in the hands of this mediocre director.
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Please tell me "Peter Berg" is some Hollywood code for Ridley Scott...
And Zardoz...Alan Smithee is an industry pseudonym for when a Director refuses credit for the film - the extended version IS still Lynch; he simply disapproved of putting the material back in. That said, ANY version of Lynch's version is horrible at effectively translating the themes of the film. Stylistically, the SciFi channel's version may have its faults, but it is a FAR more honest rendering of the novel's political, moral, and spiritual themes. -
I liked The Rundown.
I have no feelings for Dune
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That´s all.
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and deserves the bestest of treatments
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DAMN IT STOP!!! There will never be a worthy Dune movie. Never. It's one of those books that just cannot be adapted well, way too much interior monologue and plotting. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I just do not see how Dune can be made into a movie worthy of the book.
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Descendents of Islam waging a jihad and a gay bad guy? It'll never happen in today's Hollywood. They will politicise it and screw it up horribly.
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this is not only cool but also good news!
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he would have been great for Dune
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you haven't read sci-fi until you read Peter F. Hamilton.
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would be cool, but he's too busy making wack these days to touch it. He was going to make it at one point but couldn't get a grip on it and made Blade Runner instead.
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Sure it's more of a one paragraph synopsis of the hulking original novel, but I found it worked on so many levels to capture the essence of the story. I loved the look, the atmosphere, the creepiness, and even the over-the-top FLASH GORDON-like camp that popped up here and there. I thought it was a truly unique perspective look at the classic piece of science fiction literature. For the most part Lynch didn't change any of the story (he only changed what he had to fit it into a film format), he just let you see the film the way through his eyes. And anybody who knows anything about David Lynch knows you'll never get anything conventional, much less boring from the director. Another thing that makes me love Lynch's version of the film is the story that came out right after about him turning down RETURN OF THE JEDI to do this. He wanted to tackle a fantasy/science fiction story of this magnitude his own way. I really loved him taking that chance. It said to me that he had that much respect for the source. Also, anyone really interested in the look of this movie, there's at least one Lynch book of photography out there with some absolutely gorgeous images from the film. The dark colors and tone of the images just leap off the page. Many of them too have that orangy spice saturated look to them. Oh, and another great takeaway from this film is the brilliant soundtrack from the 80s pop band, Toto.
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Great post, I totally agree. Toto's music is tremendously atmospheric, especially the music used during the folding space sequence.
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do you know where I can track down a copy of the photography book you mentioned, and what it's called?
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So much of what makes Dune such a landmark novel is that we get a real insight to the character's minds through a shitload of internal dialogue which is difficult to successfully translate to film. I remember going to see Lynch's version when it opened in the theater. They at least attempted to provide some of knowledge needed about the setting to be able to enjoy the movie by handing out a sheet of paper with a general explanation of that universe. Admirable idea, but wasn't enough for anyone coming into the movie with no idea at all what it was about. The other thing that bothered me about the previous versions as well is that the novel starts with Paul being a boy and then traces his growth into a man while being forced into living in a foreign environment with the Fremen. In that way, it's also a coming of age tale, which gets ignored as well. It's such a rich novel with so many different threads running through it that gradually unfold over time, that you really cant put it all in one movie and be faithful to the source material.
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Friday Night Lights is a great little film and the series is even better. The Kingdom was dumb fun. So was Very Bad Things and that movie with The Rock. The guy's made no major disappointments so far, in my small opinion. Good for him.
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I don't see it.
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Mar 18, 2008 7:42:34 AM CDT
David Lynch's Dune was made by 8 different directors...
by derlanghaarige
...according to Dean Stockwell in a Starlog-interview back in the 90's, And Lynch had not much control about the other 7. Don't know what that means.
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I know liberities were taken with the source material (I love the novel too, actually the first 3 novels are all great), but the design and music and mood are effing flawless. I've been wondering when someone else would take another shot at bringing it to the screen all CGId and stuff. Could be cool. If they're smart, they'll keep the designs from the original movie and stay far, FAR away from the craptacular scifi network series.
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3 months old!
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...is the same thing I wanted back when laserdiscs were the big artsy medium: for David Lynch to recreate that original four/four and half hour cut of the film that he considered his most faithful attempt.
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I've always wanted Lynch to do this...hopefully one day he'll do something with it, though i'm not hopeful.
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The Butlerian Jihad, Machine Crusade, and oh what was the other one. Either that, or give me House Atreides, Harkonnen, and Corrino.
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What in the films of Berg would make anyone think he would be good for this? He did an OK black comedy about dead strippers, a football movie, a dumb action comedy starring the Rock, and a so-so anti-terrorist action flick. Nothing here cries out "this is the guy to make an epic sci-fi fantasy about political struggles, oil empires, mind expanding drugs and Shakesprerean battles of royal houses."
I think they are going for a dumbed down "hey its got sand and wizard like stuff so make it a Star Wars/LOTR like thing, PG-13, lotsa action, lose the political stuff, like the Arab like Fremen desert dwellers fighting a jihad against the empire."
Who is going to do the screenplay? That may be the last hope for this, but it doesn't look good. This would be more suited to being directed by a Ridley Scott or the Wachowskis or, if not them, even a Luc Besson or Coppola. -
is which writer is gonna adapt this... I really wish they'd put one my things into production so I can get my guild card and take a stab, I've read Dune many many times, I can figure out a draft. C'est La Vie.
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How about an Ace Double paperback movie of The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle by Jack Vance instead.
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I'm content with the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries in 2000. The original Dune has been done. Now I would like to see some of the other books on the big screen like God Emperor of Dune. Let's move forward, not tread on the same water.
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...I fear that when the first trailer for this hits theaters, there will be a collective groan the likes of which even God has never heard.Best of luck to Mr. Berg & Co.
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I am reading Dune right now, for about the 5th time. The book is so great that, chances are, no one will do it true justice. But I won't mind going and watching a big budget movie based on it. See some giant worms, see someone else's take on it, open it up to a new audience, blah blah blah.Plus, I have yet to see a good 'thopter design.
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Why go and make another? $$$$$$$4
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yet I still feel its over-rated, the novel that is. The sequels were clearly lacking in respect to the original, I almost discount them completely. The original Novel had greatness, but not the series. The original book was great mainly because of how detailed it was, this also made the story drag a little. Anyway, do we really need yet another remake? Is there no end to Hollywoods unoriginality? Unfortunately Peter Berg strikes one as a pedestrain, by the numbers director, whom has yet to impress. The Kingdom specifically was a ludicrous film, which treats its audience with severe contempt.
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You hit the nail on the head. This is going to be happy franchise time for Paramount, bland crap like the Potter and Narnia films.
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How cool would it be if they turned over "Dune" and all the sequels to Peter Jackson?
I see this is what Hollywood has in mind with this announcement, to hope to cash in on Dune like they did with LOTR.
Cast? Hopefully a relative unknown is cast as Paul with supporting roles by known actors and actresses. I could really see Viggo Mortensen as Duke Atreides and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Baron Harkonnen. -
Its a myth, it doesn't exist. Pretty sure I read an article where he said as much. The closest thing to a super 4 hour epic cut is the awful "Alan Smithee" cut whose intrusive voiceover makes it almost unwatchable.
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now that could be a cool team to do Dune justice.
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But were talking about the PJ that brought us LOTR right? Not the one who excreted, vomited, and ejaculated the craptacular KING LONG out of his hubris hole.
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The 4 hour cut of Dune has been available for years as a bootleg at any sci-fi convention. I have a copy but I've never been able to get through the whole thing. The beginning alone is a mood killer.
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You're getting confused with the TV version that has been released on DVD with extra footage and a maddening intro sequence with pre-production artwork. Phimseto is talking about the longer 3 or 4 hour unfinished cut that Lynch showed various cast and crew. It wasn't a finished version however so if Lynch wanted to do a longer version nowadays (and he doesn't) he'd have to completely re-edit the whole film. It would still be a cool thing to see though.
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It's Berg's big chance, I guess, and I'm rooting for him. Lynch's version was trippy but we could use another interpretation. I hated the miniseries (never saw the second one). Berg's been doing fun things for a while, and tried making some serious pics the last couple of times out. I hope he can pull it off.
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All I know about Lynch's Dune is that as soon as they turned on their jello-mold shields and basically started looking like two Tholians fighting each other, I turned it off.
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for lacking creative vision, yet whenever a fantasy or sci-fi series is mentioned, all you idiots can think of is "Peter Jackson is the only one who could pull it off!!!" Well, what if the people at New Line had had your limited vision? Jackson would have never gotten LOTR made in the first place. There was a time when he was just the guy who directed some splatter flicks, a movie with puppets shooting heroin and The Frighteners. Maybe Berg is the right guy for Dune and maybe he isn't. We'll see in a year or two. But one thing is for sure - there are other people out there besides PJ that are capable of producing great epic genre goods.
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...whose ABC series _wonderland_ didn't last past the first episode, and was getting good notice at the time about its gritty take on mental illness and its, uh, practicioners. as it featured some of my favorite actors/tresses, esp. ted levine and the brilliant, absurdly underrated michelle forbes (SO effing great on _in treatment_ now...she doesn't win an emmy, i'll do something rash...), its something i've wanted to see for years now. too bad. i guess petey's done some, uh, other things i cannot be induced to give a shit about. including this. except...it doesn't matter in any manner whether mr. berg is "right" for this project. what is surely "wrong" is producer richard rubenstein's desire to remake a title he already remade within the decade (viz. the well-received _dune_ miniseries)! can we now be assured of a _dune_ remake every eight years or so? maybe richie can re-remake _dawn of the dead_ one more time, too? hell, remake the _wonderland_ series while you're at it! cancel it after the first episode! how different would that be from everything else we're now seeing from richie re-make? personally, i want to go back in time and have alejandro jodorowsky's aborted _dune_ project with patrick mcgoohan actually get made. i'm sure that would've been quite the trip. i guess pete could get patrick for dr. kynes or someone now...see above in re: shit, not being induced to give a.
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is one of my favorite films, ever.
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Now thats coming from someone who has never nor ever will read or watch anything to do with Dune. Nothing against the material it's just not my thing. From what I know of it I think Berg will atleast make it visualy entertaining and full of great action, hell I wish they would've given him the next Superman sequel, a property I care way too much about.
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Mar 18, 2008 1:48:31 PM CDT
I wonder what kind of budget Paramount will give it.
by excaliburffolkes
The CGI work alone will cost a fortune if they plan to do this version right.
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After all, Peter Jackson was unproven in the realm of large-scale epics before he did LOTR. Who's to say that DUNE isn't a dream project for Peter Berg? Maybe this is his shot at a huge breakout film.
It's ridiculous when people say, "Pete Jackson should do DUNE," as if only he should be able to do every sci-fi/fantasy epic from now on. DUNE is an entirely different dynamic from LOTR. As much as I love PJ's LOTR, I doubt he has the same passion for Frank Herbert's classic. -
I have never seen an audience react so strongly to a movie then when I watched "Very Bad Things". Saw it at an audience screening so there was a nice mix of people. Just about everyone shows up to a free movie. It was a large, 600 seat theater, and it was packed. Myself and three friends sat in the back. Starting with the dismemberment sequence people began to leave. First it started with the old people, but with each passing plot development, the audience began to trickle out. When Slater knocks off Tripplehorn's character, surprisingly, two of my friends stood up. "This movie ain't just wrong; it's disrespectful", one buddy told me before heading for the doors. By the time the end credits rolled, I would say 35% of the audience had left. Of those of us who stayed, I would say half hated it, but there was a large group of the leftovers that happily applauded. I was one of those people. "Very Bad Things" is not perfect but any movie that derives that kind of reaction from an audience deserves the applause. It was clear that the audience was reacting to everything taking place on screen. It disgusted them. It sickened them. It offended there better sensibilities. But what interested me was it was not a reaction to bad filmmaking, it was a reaction to solid filmmaking; both the direction and the material. It was then I realized Peter Berg was going to be a successful director. Anyone who could offend my friends to the point of walking out was a filmmaker to watch.
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please
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The novel is wayyyy too long and complex to cram into a 90-minute movie. The Sci-Fi Channel did Dune justice in 2000 in a mini-series format, which was followed by the uber cool Children of Dune. I would very much prefer to see the Sci-Fi Channel continue with God Emperor of Dune.
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...Haven't watched 'Children of Dune' yet.
Lynch's 'Dune' was pretty cool. It was strange as all get out, but was entertaining to a young fellow like I was at the time. I also remember thinking that Dune was a rip-off of Star Wars, until I found a paperback citing the copyrights in 1965(!). Then I thought Star Wars was a great rip-off of Dune. They really shot themselves in the foot by coming out with that movie after SW. I'd imagine that Dune likely would have been better received than it was, though probably in a 2001:ASO kind of way.Speaking of Dune, Lynch and SW: Could you imagine what Jedi would have been like with Lynch at the helm? Yowza! That would have been a trip, huh? Oh, what could have been. (good or bad) -
Lynch's version, while well designed, got the characterizations all wrong. Seriously, the Harkonnens didn't seem very formidable. It's a wonder they had enough brains among them to put together the plan that took down House Atreides. The weirding modules were just stupid, as were the Gumby shields.The mini-series just felt completely lifeless, as though the makers were more concerned with accurately adapting the different scenes of the novel than with making a cohesive narrative. Most of it was miscast. (Paul was too old. Stilgar was too pudgy. Chani was too curvy. Baron Harkonnen and Piter were not intimidating in any way.) The giant backdrops might have worked up until the early '60s, but using them nowadays is just laughable. And those costumes were atrocious.I'm not about to say that Berg is the best choice for this movie. I agree with everyone who'd rather see Ridley Scott--hell, I'd like to see a more unconventional choice, like Shekhar Kapur or Alfonso Cuaron--but I have liked the Berg films I've seen, and I'm willing to give him a chance. That said, Peter Berg, if you fuck this up, you will meet the Martinez gom jabbar!
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Aren't there like at least 10 sci-fi epics worthy of big budget treatment that haven't been made twice already?
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I'd like to see that redone. And 2010.
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...would be a better novel to adapt to the screen. Although I would love to see Jodorowsky's whacked-out version of Dune with the awesome H.R. Giger art design and Salvador Dali as the Emperor.
Has anyone out there read Norman Spinrad's The Men in the Jungle? Although it has some dated 60's slang, it's a terrific book with great characters and story. And although it's about Vietnam and Che Guerava's attempt to form a revolutionary society, it could easily be applied to the current mess in Iraq. It's also one of the most violent books I've read. I'm serious. Pick it up and read it if you get a chance. -
So there's not much chance of him starring in the film, short of a seance. And not much chance of Jodorowsky directing the film either. Still, I really would love to see Jodorowsky's version, even if it's a complete mess of a film.
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And Berg SUCKS. Just because he likes to slip in a little backwards guitar indie soundtrack garbage once in a while doesn't distract anyone from the fact that he's an uncreative twat and totally wrong for Dune. Sheesh, what a waste of this story.
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of Herberts works. The Dune Messaiah part was an almost perfect rendering of the book. In both spirit and content. The guy who played Paul seemed much more in tune with the character than he did in the Dune mini, as did the actress playing Chani. The new Stilgar was perfectly cast, and Alic Krige was an inspired choice to play Lady Jessica. I can't imagine the book being done better than that. The Children sections were gorgeous, James McAvoy was excelent as Leto II, perfect blend of vulnerability and weird creepiness. More of Krig's Jessica, who flat sells her mother daughter scenes with Alia and her grandmother scenes with the twins, and also a good scene with Irulan. Duncan was great. Some complained about Alia, but she fit the role she was meant to play. I thought the actress did well. And Duncan was another perfect casting choice. He projected a great sence of conflict.
The one off note was Susan Surandon chewing senery as the villainess, but she didn't get much screen time.
The Lynch version of Dune was choppy and skipped over so much was impossible to follow. Great cast and I loved Piter, Yue, Halleck, Leto, Gaius Helena Molheium and Jessica in particular. And the Emperor Paul was solid too, and Liet, Sean Young was surprising affective as Chani too. The Barron was a joke though and not a good one. He actually acted dummer than Raban.
The Alan Smithee version, yes had voice overs, but it was a more complete story and had the author narrating which was just cool.
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or Cueron. Hell Chris Nolan could probebly make a kick ass Dune. But please get somebody with a proven track record for an epic of this scale. This isn't the kind of thing you want somebody cuttng their teeth on.
And while, some might argue that was exactly what PJ did in LOTR, he had a plan and ong track record of solid lower budget genre and effects films, so at leasdt that put him in the ball park. -
For me, Lynch's Baron steals the movie. He was one of my favorite cinematic villains. Evil as hell.
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...Now. Or 'Sons of El Topo'.
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For a Sci Fi classic epic story you need someone more with a background in making quality genre entertainment I would imagine. But...I've never been one to shit all over something until I see something worth shitting on.
Perhaps some as yet unseen directing range will come about with this movie and he'll do it justice. Or....it could very well be absolute trash. -
fuck this up before they decide to give up? Get the fuck outta here with this bullshit already. It's ridiculous.
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Best part of Dune.
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Best part of Dune.
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Not familiar with the director, but hopefully this will be good. The studio should know that if they do it right, like LoR/HP/Narnia, this could be a great six-movie franchise. If they do it wrong, like Lemony Snicket and perhaps The Golden Compass, it could be a spectacular misfire. P.S. Keep Frank Herbert's retarded fan fiction son far, far away.
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The problems inherent in filming Dune are just too large to overcome, even by the best intentioned director.
After all, Dune is more than just a cool Sci Fi story. The ideas put forth by Herbert weren't just plot devices, they were SEEDS, meant to spark change within the reader himself, designed to be acted upon, not just read about.
How do you script that sort of a message into a movie adaptation, much less cast for a teenage superman who is heir to 10,000 years of breeding improvement? -
We all know who Peter Berg is you fucking fatgirl whedon fan.
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I second that devotion Bumquist. That would rock. Never ever happen though. But its nice to dream... THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED!
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and the beginning of Berg's love of shaky cam and quick cuts. And I think Wonderland lasted at least 3 episodes before being yanked. I like Berg as an actor, but haven't liked anything he's directed. His "style," interrupted my enjoyment of Friday Night Lights, which might have been a good movie, but the camera and cuts took me right out of the story.
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Because he speaks the fucking truth. Fanboys have ZERO imagination. Like Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro are the only people who could ever POSSIBLY make a great genre film.
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fucking rocks!
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Don't get me wrong, I loved both the David Lynch (haven't quite made it all the way through the extended version he won't lend his name to yet) and miniseries versions but... WHY???
It seems like not only have they run out of original ideas for new films - they've run out ideas for films to REMAKE even!
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