![]() Or they would, if we hadn’t been steeped in Dune fever for so many years, even prior to the recent arrival of Denis Villeneuve’s extraordinary and resolutely abstruse film adaptation. The trappings of its imagined, distant-future world feel wondrous, unfamiliar, and strange. The 1965 novel, which eventually garnered widespread acclaim, was followed by a universe of sequels for its rabidly devoted fans. The world of Dune is a wild one, a tale spun by Frank Herbert in the tumultuous 1960s that mixes fear of authoritarian rule and environmental collapse with fascism, racism, and hallucinatory imagery. A spice harvested from an arid desert that enables space travel. A secretive all-women order of spies, nuns, scientists, and theologians that’s bending history to its will. While that clash plays out in Hollywood boardrooms, all eyes will turn to the battles on Arrakis when 'Dune' premiers on September 3.Harkonnens. It is all about the survival of a telecom mammoth," Villeneuve said in a statement about the decision last December. "There is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here. CHILDREN OF DUNE BOOK VS TV TVThere have been popular TV adaptations since, including "Children of Dune" starring James McAvoy, but never on the grand scale that the novels seemed to demand.įar from the 'nightmare' experienced by Lynch, he appears over the moon with his film, and is already thinking about two possible sequels, according to an interview he gave CBC Radio Canada.īut that will depend on the commercial success of the first instalment. Villeneuve has already clashed with Warner Bros over its decision to release the film on streaming platforms alongside the theatre release. CHILDREN OF DUNE BOOK VS TV MOVIEBut Lynch's mad vision was fatally undermined by the Hollywood machine, and the movie bombed on release in 1984. Seven versions of the script and six punishing months of filming in Mexico led to many monumental sets being built and thousands of costumes. Fresh from 'Alien', Ridley Scott was tapped to direct, before it was passed to David Lynch. In the 1980s, in the wake of 'Star Wars', studios grew more interested. ![]() In the end, the money could not match the ambition and it became part of tragic movie lore, recounted in the 2013 documentary 'Jodorowsky's Dune'. ![]() "It is cursed by its excellence," said Lloyd Chery, author of a French reference book about Dune.Ĭult Franco-Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky was the first to try his hand, spending no less than four years in the 1970s on the project, with Salvador Dali, Alain Delon and Orson Welles lined up, along with Pink Floyd for the music. Some of the images and ideas have also become sci-fi staples, including its giant sandworms (hello 'Tremors'), suits that recycle sweat, or the Bene Gesserit, an order of female martial arts experts with thought-control powers.įans also praise its visionary edge, anticipating debates over global warming and the impact of technology. 'Cursed' -Despite its ready-made audience and clear cinematic potential, previous transfers to film have been famously difficult. "It was the prototype for the sort of world-building universe in science fiction books, with their own coherence, references and foundations," said Guillemain, comparing it to what 'Lord of the Rings' did for fantasy. "It is the biggest-selling and most-read science fiction novel ever, but also the most commented upon and the most studied," said Renaud Guillemin, an eminent member of France's community of 'Duniens'. The brainchild of author Frank Herbert, 'Dune' was first published in 1965 and became a six-volume space opera of massive influence, not least on 'Star Wars'.ĭaniel Craig's 'No Time to Die' to be screened at Zurich Film Festival ![]() Venice Film Festival: Afghan film director Sahraa Karimi to talk about her country's plightĬrucially, he has also proved a safe pair of hands when handling totems of 20th-century geekdom, after his critically adored 'Blade Runner 2049', a sequel to the sci-fi classic.Ī prototype - Set many millennia in the future, "Dune" follows the tribal battles for control of 'spice', a drug that extends life and delivers prophetic powers, on the inhospitable planet of Arrakis, which also happens to be infested with giant worms. ![]()
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