DUNE Reboot Movie Update
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- By drvenkman
We have a quick little update on the new Dune reboot movie that is currently being developed. If you have not heard abou this yet Producer Kevin Misher (The Scorion King, The Rundown, Fighting) and Actor/Director Peter Berg (The Rundown, Hancock) have teamed up again to make another movie based on the original source matertial. Misher recently did an interview with io9 in which he say’s that Dune is one of his favorite books of all time. When asked about where they are in the process he replies:
We’re working on the script right now. We’re going to turn it in shortly. The script is coming in, we’re hoping to get a green light shortly.
Misher sounds pretty confident that this is going to happen, and it most likely will so I hope your ready to see a new Dune film directed by Peter Berg. I have no idea what to expect from these guys for this movie. Kevin Misher has taken some of his films in the wrong direction. I just hope this doesn’t end up being a cheap-ass looking adaptation. Peter Berg is still a fairly new director and I thought ‘Hancock’ sucked. So chance sare this movie wont be a brilliant adaptation. I hope it turns out to be one but from the track record of the talent involved we have an idea of how it will end up. Unless they cast Christian Bale in the movie, that seems to make everything better these days.
Are you ready for a new Dune movie? I know I am but I’m not sure about the talent.
Source: io9
Will probable be as good as those prequel books. Make of the what you will. I simply will cry into my copy of the “banned” Dune Encyclopaedia.
Just watched the original a couple days ago. Love the story but the movie just doesn’t hold up. Still a favorite of mine but would love to see it redone. I actually liked The Rundown, but you’re right about Hancock (awful). Let’s just hope the Rock doesn’t have a big part…..
Why? Why reboot this movie? It was perfect just the way it was. If you couldn’t understand the first movie, then read the book. I loved it. If you can’t understand the book… go back to school. This is not a comic book movie that can be magically redone. I can only dread someone “rebooting” this movie because I doubt it could ever live up to first one. The thought scares me. I will have nightmares…
I love the original movie Dune as well. And this reboot is going off the the original source material which is from the book. So in a way it can’t take away from what the first movie already is. If they were making a remake off the movie then there would be problems.
Maybe Peter Berg will pull a “Peter Jackson” and it’ll be awesome. I liked the dark weirdness of the David Lynch film and I’m kinda hoping this remake will have some of that. But of course, nothing beats the book.
Yes Hancock was not that great, but keep in mind this is also the guy who directed ‘The Kingdom’ & the ‘Friday Night Lights’ TV series which are both fabulously shot.
If Dune gets shot in that wonderful handheld, naturally lit style it might just end up being awesome.
I’m a fan of the Lynch version also. It was very dreamlike; and seemed to position itself as something that was other-worldly very well. Just wish the effects were better, and it stuck to the book more. There were classic moments from the book that I really feel would have improved the movie.
I read the book when it first came out and thought it to be a classic. It has become that, one the greatest of all sci fi books ever written. It is on par with the best of Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov.
I also saw the Lynch movie in 1984 and was so disappointed with the direction Lynch went. Only a remake that compares to The Lord of the Rings would be worthy of the book.
As much as i would like to see a new Dune movie i live in fear that they will make a complete hash of it. They did it with LOTR which was a great movie version i just hope the same can be done with Dune…
Being a lifetime fan of the Frank Herbet novels I thought that the Lynch version of the film was vastly inferior and could have been so much better with the right Directing behind it. I hope that Peter Berg does a better job.
Dune is a very ambitious sci-fi epic, I'm surprised it's gone to a producer and a director that I not only don't rate very highly, but don't even associate with the genre.
I hope they do a good job of Re-Booting Dune, because no-one seems to've done Herberts book justice.