Dune Remake Cancelled Again

[OwlHoot]

Paramount buries Dune remake ? The Register

I blame the Harkonnens

I'm still hacked off about the planned Rendezvous with Rama film being canned.

It would have been out next year.

[DaveB]

The mini-series was good. Had enough time to actually tell the story properly, not just pick out the main plot points and hope the viewer had read the books to fill in the blanks for themselves.

[OwlHoot]

It may be that certain books can't be fully represented in film, although I thought Lynch got a lot right.

I wonder if Lord of the Rings will ever be remade?

In 50 years they'll probably be able to remake any film you can think of, in holographic 3D and with the same actors, computer generated.

[MrMark]

Dune is currently being shown on Channel 5

[Old Greg]

Probably a sound commercial decision. It was always going to Bene Tleilaxu tank.

[TimberWolf]

Dune is currently being shown on Channel 5

[NickFitz]

In 50 years they'll probably be able to remake any film you can think of, in holographic 3D and with the same actors, computer generated.

And it still won't be as good as the book.

I've never read any of the Dune stuff, nor seen the film. I knew a lot of geologists at university and they all seemed to have the books. Of course the film hadn't been made then.

I never met anybody who liked the Dune books and thought the film was any good.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was a film that was as good as a film as the book was good as a book. I still prefer the book to the film, but I think the important thing is not to try to replicate the book in film, but to actually adapt the damn thing so that it's a good film, and let the devil take the book to hell in a handcart. That's more likely to result in aficionados of the book adjudging the film to be a good film of the book. After all, they liked the book because it was a good book, so they'll like the film if it's a good film. A film that's just the book copied word-for-word into a different and unfitting medium, or a film that ends up being a completely different story with the same name, are unlikely to be any good to man or beast.

[Addanc]

I thought this was a pretty good interpretation. The De-horrendous film is tulipe.

[Spacecadet]

I never met anybody who liked the Dune books and thought the film was any good.

The film has it's flaws but IMO the really good stuff out shines the tulip