A Dune Remake?

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I absolutely love Dune.

The book was absolutely fantastic. Layer upon layer of intrigue, action, adventure and fantastic ideas.

The movie was good too. It provided a fantastic visual spectacle and laid out a more than memorable world, but couldn’t nearly hope to convey all the idea’s and concepts laid out by the book.

Now, a remake of that movie is being discussed.

Dune Remake?

At the moment, the conversation is that of desire rather than cold, hard facts.

Director Denis Villeneuve (of Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario and the upcoming Bladerunner 2 movie) recently sat down with Variety and discussed his upcoming Bladerunner sequel and all things Sci-Fi.

Dune came up.

I had been wanting to do sci-fi for a very long time. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also Blade Runner. And Close Encounters of the Third Kind is also one of my favorites. I’m always looking for scifi material, and it’s difficult to find original and strong material that’s not just about weaponry. 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. Also I would love to write something myself. I have two [scifi] projects right now that are in very [early] stages. It’s too early to talk about them.

Okay, so as you can gather from that quote the whole thing is in thee early stages at the moment. Let’s face it, no matter how much geeks like me want it to happen, it’s probably not going to.

But what if it does? What if the stars align and this thing actually gets made?

I mean, it is the age of the remakes right? Hollywood no longer has an original thought left, so a remake of Dune isn’t exactly out of the realms of possibility right?

But should the movie be remade?

Dune Remake: should they?

I want to see a Dune movie as much as the next sci-fi geek, but I have my reservations.

I don’t want the movie to fall into the same pitfalls as the David Lynch version did: too much content. As I’ve mentioned above, the Dune novel has too much information, ideals and concepts to cram into one movie.

I think the better option would be a TV series.

Okay, I know there was a Dune miniseries in 2000 (which is rated higher than the movie on IMDB BTW) and another Children of Dune miniseries in 2003 (which is also rated higher than the movie) but I’m talking about a full series in today’s modern age of TV.

I think it could be done and even better than beefore. I mean, the Sci-Fi is producing some really decent Tv shows at the moment based on some really good novels. The Expanse is the primary example of this.

I think if they were granted an opportunity to take this on AND convert it into full length TV series rather than a miniseries, it’d be the optimal solution.

Another movie, even under the guidance of a director I really respect, is not the best way to go about a Dune reboot for me.

What does everyone else think? Are you behind a Dune remake?

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