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Why are they remaking this rubbish yet again?? It's easily one of the
most boring books I've ever had the misfortune to try to to read (along
with the garbage I was forced to read by school English [Lit] classes).
It spends dozens and dozens of pages simply describing sand on a desert
planet ... which is where I then gave up bothering with it. :-\


From ComingSoon.net ...

Dune remake officially eyeing Denis Villeneuve to direct
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According to Variety, Legendary's Dune remake is eyeing
Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) to
direct. The Canadian helmer had previously told the trade
back in September that, "A longstanding dream of mine is
to adapt 'Dune', but it's a long process to get the
rights, and I don't think I will succeed."

Last month, Legendary and the Frank Herbert estate
announced their intent to bring Dune to both movie and
television screens, with all projects to be produced by
Thomas Tull, Mary Parent and Cale Boyter, with Brian
Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert serving as
executive producers. It's interesting that Villeneuve
may jump from Blade Runner to Dune, as Ridley Scott did
just the opposite in the early '80s when he dropped out
of a planned adaptation of Dune in order to make the
original Blade Runner.

Set in the distant future, Dune tells the story of Paul
Atreides, whose family accepts control of the desert
planet Arrakis. As the only producer of a highly-valuable
resource, control of Arrakis is highly contested among
the noble families. After Paul and his family are
betrayed, the story explores themes of politics, religion,
and man's relationship to nature as Paul leads a rebellion
to restore his family's control of Arrakis.

A Dune movie was previously realized in 1984 with director
David Lynch at the helm. There, Kyle MacLachlan headlined
as Paul Atreides. While the film underperformed at the box
office, it has since gained popularity as a cinematic cult
classic. Herbert's novels were later adapted for
television with Syfy adapting both the first and third
books (Dune and Children of Dune) as television
miniseries. More recently, the 2013 documentary
Jodorowsky's Dune examined director Alejandro Jodorowsky's
failed attempts at making his own Dune movie.

With a fully realized science fiction universe that spans
millennia, Dune has the potential to go as big as
Legendary wants to make it. Herbert himself wrote five
literary Dune sequels and, beginning in 1999, new Dune
novels began being published. Kevin J. Anderson and Brian
Herbert teamed to write more than dozen novels that
expanded on the Dune universe.

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