Update on "Dune" reboot

Enemy Mine.

Those Jan Michael Vincent sci-fi flicks.

Liquid Sky reboot for the opoid crisis.

Please tell me Ryan Gosling is not involved.....It's one of my fav books /movies and his take on Blade Runner was dull enough...

I'd love to see Silent Running remade (without cheap CGI)

I’d have liked to see the Alexander Jodorowsky take on “Dune.” But, without decent actors, and a coherent script, it might have ended up as messy and compacted as the David Lynch version. Great concept art does not a great film make.

There were two TV miniseries of the material: “Dune” and its immediate sequel, “Dune Messiah,” which were well received, but I never saw them. Both are available on DVD.

Studios keep threatening to revive all of them...but doing the whole multi-film world-building thing is fraught with peril, unless you're shooting multiple films at the same time. Even then things can happen, as with Superman The Movie and Superman II.

Probably my favorite example of a multi-film sci-fi franchise is the original Planet of the Apes series, probably because there was no real plan in place for a 5-film cycle. They just kind of winged it, and it turned out to be surprisingly coherent and compelling, and the first real example of a Time Loop/Moebius Strip story concept in movies or TV. It would have been grand if Battle for the Planet of the Apes had kept its' original ending, with Taylor's spaceship crashing into the more idyllic version of the future we see at the end of Battle.

The plotline to the unmade sequel to the 98' Lost in Space film was surprisingly ambitious, with the Robinsons essentially becoming caught up in an espionage storyline involving the seditionists from the first film. I'm actually quite sorry they never managed the follow-up.

The only thing DataLounge cares about.....is Timmy still attached and will it have full frontal nudity ?

Forget another Dune reboot, give us the Foundation movie, or now tv series supposedly being done by Apple.

Coruscant from Star Wars was modeled after Trantor from Foundation.

Yeah I’d like to see a Foundation series. They’ve been talking about it for years (as a movie at least), but this is the closest it’s been to development though. There was talk of a Rama movie and a Gateway tv series as well.

So sick of these reboots of the same old things - there’s so many fantastic fantasy and science fiction books out there that would make awesome tv/film. I guess it’s easier getting a green light on something that’s already been made though? It reassures the powers that hold the purse strings the vehicle has appeal? Because someone’s already made the decision before (in some cases, a few times before!)

Oscar Issac is going to play Duke Leto. Great casting!

Wow. I love Dune, but this reboot is going to fucking suck. Two flat actors playing Leto and Paul Atreides......that's the heart and the sole of the movie gone right there.....

^ soul...d'oh

Well, Leto is only in the first 1/3 of the story, so not sure what you mean.

It was already re-booted - quite successfully I think. And certainly more faithful to the narrative arc which the film, inevitably, had to truncate (to the point of confusion.) That said, here are the two scenes from that film which are absolutely fantastic. The first - for all it's portentous splendour - that baroque doorway! Genius. The special effects which then follow are comical and kind of ruin the effect of those opening 60 seconds. But those first 60 seconds are mesmerising.

The second great scene to follow below:

Chalamet and Zendaya are embarrassing choices. This is looking like Disney high school musical with these baby faced kids

And here's the arrival of the navigator to the Emperor. All the menace! All the fear. And that great line, "the bene gesserit witch must leave."

Great stuff.

The scope for both Dune and Foundation is far too broad to cram into a movie or even a miniseries. Since both would be CGI fests anyway I've felt for a long time that an extended high-grade animated series might be the best chance to do them justice. But fat chance that will occur.

It's been a few decades, but I remember "Dune" being overwhelmingly sexist, and the hero worm-riding people were clearly modeled on our planets Bedouin.

Perhaps this isnt a great time to come out with something where the good guys treat women as property.