Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

EltonJohn69 · 10-09-2020 9:46am

From watching the trailer Dune has the makings of a big trilogy. I assume the critics will love it, hopefully it’s does well at the box office. It will be great having a franchise that isn’t Star Wars DC/marvel.... both of which are for the most part relatively dumb.

Spocker · 10-09-2020 9:56am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Trailer from 1984 -v- 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSPGQpCXc0c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSPGQpCXc0c

MJohnston · 10-09-2020 11:32am

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

From watching the trailer Dune has the makings of a big trilogy. I assume the critics will love it, hopefully it’s does well at the box office. It will be great having a franchise that isn’t Star Wars DC/marvel.... both of which are for the most part relatively dumb.

It's planned to be a two-parter movie, with each part able to standalone as their own thing, like the recent It movies. I hope the studio don't have super high expectations for the box office so that we actually get Part 2, because it's not Villeneuve has a strong box office record.

titan18 · 10-09-2020 12:25pm

Based on the tenet numbers,I think fair shot it's going to be delayed sadly.

Dades · 10-09-2020 12:37pm

Spocker wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Trailer from 1984 -v- 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSPGQpCXc0c

That's pretty cool.

Sad Professor · 10-09-2020 12:37pm

The test of Tenet will be in the weeks to come. It has no competition and could run in theatres for months potentially. Same with Dune. It depends on the studio's confidence in the film.

Effects · 10-09-2020 12:41pm

pixelburp wrote: »

Shít. It only just hit that our first will be barely out of the oven when this comes out. Home release for me then, there's no way we'll get to the cinema. Damn, I already resent my son lol (kidding, of course)

Good reason to go on your own I'd have thought.

splashthecash · 10-09-2020 12:47pm

I was very impressed with the trailer - thought i portrayed the characters\landscape very well. I just read the book in the last year as prep for this movie and for the most part everything translated very well...perhaps I saw Jessica\Leto being a bit older but everything else was great. Arrakis looks amazing and some of the money shot scenes (external desert and explosions scenes) came across epic to me.

I was wondering how they would do the sandworms and wasn't disappointed! from the shaking of the sand and then the final shot, definitely did the huge size of those justice

johnny_ultimate · 10-09-2020 12:49pm

The thing is that the three or four major cities in the US still haven’t reopened cinemas - New York, LA etc... It’s hard to just how things will fare until that happens.

It’s still kind of surreal seeing all the American sites having big moral arguments over whether they should even be reviewing theatrical releases given the catastrophic situation over there. But that has a knock-on effect here, where cinemas have reopened seemingly without issue. Reality is there’s very few big releases on the schedule for the rest of the year, which will surely have multiplexes panicking a bit. Tenet hasn’t been the runaway audience hit that demands months of screenings, and it’s all fairly quiet until Bond shows up. Dune would have to be spectacular for it to prove a big Christmas blockbuster - it’s a nerdy proposition in the first place.

titan18 · 10-09-2020 1:46pm

I think if they delay Wonder Woman, they delay Dune. Wonder woman could take Dunes spot at Christmas.

EltonJohn69 · 10-09-2020 2:12pm

Timothy and the rest of the cast will attract audiences.... could be a mistake releasing it now though

Rember when movies didn’t have to be an existing IP to be the big box office movie ? The fifth element, the matrix ? So many creative movies were being made before marvel/Dc/Disney

And yes I know DUNE isn’t a new IP but.... for most it is

Useful.Idiot · 10-09-2020 2:46pm

bradolf pittler wrote: »

I dont see either Feyd Rautha,Princess Irulan or the emperor in the trailer or on IMBD site as being cast.
Hopefully their saving them for the 2nd part.
Surely these characters are too big to be left out altogether?

Yeah you'd imagine they definitely would be in the second part, there's already a lot of characters to work with for Part 1. They'll probably get a mention in this one but even in the book I don't think they become significant or visible characters until the second half.

OldRio · 10-09-2020 4:33pm

An orchestrated version of 'Eclipse' by Pink Floyd on the trailer.

ixoy · 10-09-2020 5:42pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

It’s still kind of surreal seeing all the American sites having big moral arguments over whether they should even be reviewing theatrical releases given the catastrophic situation over there. But that has a knock-on effect here, where cinemas have reopened seemingly without issue.

Yeah, it's a little odd. Was reading a site where the articles are along the line, "Tenet is out in the cinema - but you should not go to the cinema!" They drag in health experts and everything whereas there's been no reports of transmission in the cinema here.

What they seem to suggest is "Wonder Woman 1984" getting delayed and that delay knocking "Dune" into 2021 as a result of all of this.

MisterAnarchy · 10-09-2020 5:54pm

Spocker wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Trailer from 1984 -v- 2020

Its hard to believe that the lead actor in both the 1984 version and the 2020 version were the same age during production.

Dial Hard · 10-09-2020 6:04pm

Who's the actor in the " 'What's in the box?' 'Pain' " scene with Chalamet? Looks and sounds very like Cate Blanchett but she's not credited anywhere as being in the film.

Is that Charlotte Rampling?

MisterAnarchy · 10-09-2020 6:12pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Is that Charlotte Rampling?

Yes

Kidchameleon · 10-09-2020 6:13pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

Who's the actor in the " 'What's in the box?' 'Pain' " scene with Chalamet? Looks and sounds very like Cate Blanchett but she's not credited anywhere as being in the film.

Is that Charlotte Rampling?

Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Rampling

Tony EH · 10-09-2020 7:17pm

pixelburp wrote: »

Yeah, the lack of "Jihad" was interesting

My guess is that that's just a trailer talking point. It'll have people exercised of it, but I reckon it'll be mentioned in the film.

mikhail · 10-09-2020 11:14pm

Dades wrote: »

That's pretty cool.

It is. The comparison is probably flattering to Lynch because costuming, set design, and other visuals were the strongest part of his Dune.

Brief_Lives · 11-09-2020 8:40am

This is very cool. Stephen Colbert interviewing most of the main cast of dune including, Villeneuve.
There are some new still seen during the interview, and then the trailer is at the end.

peteeeed · 18-09-2020 7:13pm

https://twitter.com/DuneNews/status/1307016880675262466?s=20

bnt · 18-09-2020 11:10pm

banie01 wrote: »

But that's how Paul is meant to look.
Small for his age, and scrawny it's how he is described in the books.

Well, the book starts when Paul is fifteen:

Dune wrote:

"Is he not small for his age, Jessica?" the old woman asked. Her voice wheezed and twanged like an untuned baliset.

Paul's mother answered in her soft contralto: "The Atreides are known to start late getting their growth, Your Reverence."

AMKC · 19-09-2020 12:21am

When is the film due out? Please not before the end of the year and is there a series coming too? I hope the original will be on somewhere before this because it's one film I just keep missing and have only seen parts of it.

peteeeed · 19-09-2020 6:53pm

https://twitter.com/dunenews/status/1307360352041152512?s=21

Brief_Lives · 26-09-2020 11:04am

I went down the youtube rabbit hole this morning....

the first is a documentary on the 1984 movie, it is quite good...

the second is an interview with Frank Herbert on how he created the book...

Brief_Lives · 30-09-2020 2:50pm

The ScyFy channels miniseries, Dune is available on Youtube, for anyone that is interested.

peteeeed · 05-10-2020 8:31pm

Delayed till October 2021

https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1313198484489531392?s=21

Kidchameleon · 05-10-2020 8:41pm

F**K me thats a huge jump :mad:

pixelburp · 05-10-2020 8:56pm

Makes sense. The backlog of blockbusters is going to be huge and it's a sensible place to put a tricky unknown quantity. Otherwise it might get swallowed by all the eventual 2020 releases.

titan18 · 05-10-2020 8:56pm

Eurghh. That's a lot longer delay than I thought. Not cool

MfMan · 05-10-2020 10:07pm

Feck! The sequel will be out before it and then we'll properly be confused.
Reminds me of Steve Martin's closing quip at the Oscars a few years ago; "Once again tonight's show has gone on so long, Avatar now takes place in the past."

Tony EH · 06-10-2020 12:03am

Bloody hell. A Whole year?

Beechwoodspark · 06-10-2020 9:10am

RTÉ are saying “DUNE” will be delayed until October 2021

EltonJohn69 · 06-10-2020 9:15am

I’m fairly sure the world will have ended by October 2021

micks_address · 06-10-2020 9:15am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

RTÉ are saying “DUNE” will be delayed until October 2021

might as well delay it a year and be sure it will come out. This delay for a few months and then another few months is almost worse.. if it can't come out by this time next year then we all in trouble

peteeeed · 06-10-2020 10:17am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

RTÉ are saying “DUNE” will be delayed until October 2021

read the posts above

Shred · 20-10-2020 11:56am

Dune is something that's kind of always been there for me for a number of reasons - the original Lynch movie (which came out when I was pretty young; I can remember my older brothers watching it but I still haven't seen it) and Toto's involvement in the same movie. Then when I learned Denis Villeneuve was going to make a new movie, coupled with Neil Fallon recommending it as one of his top 10 books, I decided to buy it around 2 years ago. I made a couple of attempts to read it and failed due to its immediate denseness...however I got the proverbial out recently and finally finished it last weekend. It's a mind boggling book in so many ways and, I must admit, a bit of a slog at times. Overall though, it's hard to deny its genius and its (continued) influence on Sci-fi is clear to see too.

I'd avoided as much as I could about the movie (and this thread!) as I didn't want casting announcements etc. to cloud my experience of reading the book. But, having finished it I finally watched the trailer last weekend and wow, it looks incredible! I really think the casting is pitch perfect across the board, I see some have questioned Jason Momoa's involvement but when you think of Duncan Idaho's involvement in the first book he's pretty much on the periphery of the story

before he apparently dies (I see he plays a bigger part in the other books - thanks for the spoiler y'all!

)

. I also couldn't give a crap about the gender swap for Liet Kynes, it doesn't make much of a difference to the story and I've no issue with 'balancing' out the cast a little more considering all that's gone on (sorry to open that can of worms again!). Oh an the the jaw dropping size of the worm at the end! :eek: Here's hoping this does come out next year and flying over to the BFI Imax is back on the cards.

Anyway, it's going to be a long 12 months and I'll just have to re-watch the trailer another hundred+ times in the meantime. I really hope it does well enough for the second part to made otherwise that'll be an absolute killer! I might start reading the other (FH) books too, but I think I'll give myself a breather before diving in again...I'm curious to see how the story develops though, especially considering the ending for the first one. Oh and I should probably finally give the Lynch movie a watch too (expectations are low!)!

cosatron · 20-10-2020 2:24pm

hi. Just looking at buying the books, do i need to buy the trilogy or just the first one.

banie01 · 20-10-2020 2:27pm

cosatron wrote: »

hi. Just looking at buying the books, do i need to buy the trilogy or just the first one.

Just the 1st one is plenty.
The 1st 2 movies will cover the original novel.

pixelburp · 20-10-2020 2:35pm

cosatron wrote: »

hi. Just looking at buying the books, do i need to buy the trilogy or just the first one.

The sequel is an immediate one to the books, but IIRC the series gets more and more exotic, bordering on supernatural as it goes along. I think, it's a long while since I ran the series. The first is a definite Must Read regardless.

mikhail · 20-10-2020 7:28pm

I'd agree with the above: the first one is a stand-alone story. If you enjoy it, there are 5 official sequels, and a bunch of disreputable fanfiction by the author's son.

peteeeed · 30-10-2020 10:28am

Godmamn

https://twitter.com/DuneNews/status/1321946435596812288?s=20

peteeeed · 03-12-2020 7:45pm

The movie is now coming out on hbo max as well as the cinema

Warner bros is releasing it's entire 2021 schedule out on hbo max too

https://www.ign.com/articles/dune-the-matrix-4-mortal-kombat-coming-to-hbo-max-along-with-entire-wb-2021-slate

Beechwoodspark · 03-12-2020 8:35pm

peteeeed wrote: »

The movie is now coming out on hbo max as well as the cinema

Warner bros is releasing it's entire 2021 schedule out on hbo max too

https://www.ign.com/articles/dune-the-matrix-4-mortal-kombat-coming-to-hbo-max-along-with-entire-wb-2021-slate

Peteee The plan is to put them on simultaneous with their 2021 cinema release schedule?

So....long wait yet for it

Dufflecoat Fanny · 03-12-2020 8:37pm

October 1st 21

EltonJohn69 · 03-12-2020 11:28pm

I would say we will get it sooner then a October.....might affect the chances of a sequel though

EltonJohn69 · 11-12-2020 9:24pm

I called it !!!
Denis V says franchise is DEAD !!!

The White Wolf · 11-12-2020 9:31pm

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

I called it !!!
Denis V says franchise is DEAD !!!

The man really is cursed unfortunately.

EltonJohn69 · 11-12-2020 9:49pm

The White Wolf wrote: »

The man really is cursed unfortunately.

Well everything is relative........ but it is unfortunate for him and the Dune fans..... I just can’t see it making enough money for a sequel

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

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