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Via the good people at io9, my attention was drawn this morning to news that Dune is coming back to the silver screen. This is probably old news to many of you; we've known for a while that the man at the helm is Denis Villeneuve, fresh off Blade Runner 2049 (a worthy sequel to most everyone's favorite futuristic film noir), and just this week Deadline pegged a certain young Hollywood heartthrob for Atreides.
The latest news, however, is that Brian Herbert—son of Dune author Frank Herbert and an author in his own right—revealed that the first script will only focus on the first half of the novel. This confirms an earlier report that Villeneuve plans to adapt the book across two movies.
Herbert's epic sci-fi novel is set far off in the future—about 20,000 years from now—and it tells the story of an intergalactic power struggle between different noble houses to control a substance called melange, which makes interstellar travel possible. (That's massively underselling things, but you try summarizing a 400-page novel in one sentence.) Published in 1965, it has gone on to have a huge influence in popular culture; here at Ars, our favorite descendants are Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" and the frequent references to the litany of fear by Peter Puppy in the Earthworm Jim cartoons. (The recreation of Dune using gummy worms gets a notable mention.)
[...] By now you may have decided I am an uncritical viewer of all things Dune, so you may not be surprised to know that I am greatly looking forward to see what Villeneuve does with the story. Again, I think he did a bang-up job with a follow-on to Blade Runner, but it's true there's not much similarity between the two franchises other than the fact that they both take place in the future. Other Dune watchers are less confident—upon the news that Kevin J. Anderson (of Star Wars novels fame) was collaborating with Brian Herbert, Ars editor Lee Hutchinson told me, "I can't believe this is going to end in anything other than a nuclear explosion of human excrement."
[...] Legendary (the company behind The Dark Knight and Interstellar) bought rights to Dune about two years ago, but for now there's no firm timetable for the first film.
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @09:00PM (11 children)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jodorowsky%27s+dune [youtube.com] It would have been epic!
This will probably be some lame crap that's visually spectacular, mostly faithful with some wonderful acting... er, well, at least I trust Hollywood will do visually spectacular.
I'm wondering what they're going to do with the scene where Maud'Dib rapes the female race memory like it's a bathroom. Epic lulz if they don't change it and feminists flip the fuck out over the notion that women can't retrace the male race memory, but some dude is capable of retracing the female race memory without even putting on a dress. Eh, they'll probably skip it. It would also cause conservatives shit fits because the moral of the scene could be "do drugs and get super powers."
(Score: 4, Funny) by theluggage on Saturday July 28 2018, @09:11PM (1 child)
What, it's 2018, its Hollywood, and they're not going to gender-flip Maud'Dib...? :-)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:05AM
No, zhe is gonna be an intersex pansexual PoC who is being opressed by the crtitically white feudalist patriarchat.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:19AM (7 children)
What lame political agenda trolling.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:02AM (5 children)
No, I think he pretty much summed up the books. And yes the SJW's will flip their shit. They always do, they are incapable of doing otherwise. That is how they control those around them. With fits and acting like children.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @02:23AM (4 children)
More agenda trolling. There was no quasi rape scene and the the mother of his kids was an athnic strong woman. Troll away, but if you seriously believe your own crap then you're crazier than the most hardcore feminist. As usual it shows your own issues with needing to control the world around you that you see people pushing for equality as some power struggle.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:28AM (3 children)
I don't think OP meant "rape" in the literal sense. There is the scene where Muad'Dib drinks the worm bile or whatever it was and goes tripping balls to "the place where they [the Bene Gesserit, female-only order of mystics] cannot see", learning the Bene Gesserit's secret knowledge. According to narration, only males can do this. So yeah, it's gonna be a shitstorm :)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:08PM (2 children)
No, it is not only males can do this. Females simply cannot do this. Males can attempt it and they die. Only the kwisatz haderach can do this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:28PM (1 child)
And read the other ac post below this thread to find out youre wrong. Aaliyah(?) the abomination also accessed male memories.
I repwat, lame agenda trolling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @01:22PM
Alia, Leto Jr and Ghanima accessed anscestor memories. This is different to what the Bene Gesserit did. In the scene where Jessica drinks the worm juice and becomes a Reverend Mother (RM), she is described as receiving all the other RM memories from the old RM that she was tripping with. " a long chain of sausages, each one containing the memories of another RM, stretching back into history"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @06:22AM
Maybe its more of a barometer on society being up to the gills and beyond with PC-ism and the leftist agenda...
From the general instrument readings, we are not far from having a use for walls and guns to clean up the problem.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:44AM
In the original canon, Leto's sister, Ghanima, is capable of accessing past memories from both genders. The reason they selectively breed in such a way that only males can combine all the traits is to avoid placing themselves in the spotlights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit#Avoiding_direct_power [wikipedia.org]
Going prequels, you can look up the Honored Matres and the Fish Speakers, but the point is that Dune has all sorts of organizations going through different iterations and breaking apart into different factions at varying degrees of success. Case and point: The Harkonnen actually split off House Atreides and were the good guys originally. But the environmental conditions in their planet led to economic problem which led to a corrupt dystopian rule as the millenniums followed.