Comments on: Peter Berg is Directing Dune

By: vernell

vernell — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:16:46 +0000

(Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so)This is a very complex story and with the new background stories by the author’s son it is only getting better. David lynch’s movie was a landmark because it was the first and gave us insight on the story and made you want to read the books and that is a good thing. Because no one had did anything like that before, and I know looking back we tend to rip it because he tried to compact too much into two hour and we all know the story of Dune can’t be told in ten hour let alone two. So with that I will say I’ve enjoyed all the books and the movies but this time I hope they tell the back story on the rift between the great house. oh I think that it is going to be a great movie or maybe three?

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:37:35 +0000

Visually the 1984 Dune was impressive, narratively less so. The same issues with a script will face Berg et al. I liked the Sci-Fi channels version of the first three books because they had the time to tell the story. I think Paramount should try and bring the most compelling book of the series to the Big Screen and that would be ‘God Emperor of Dune’.

By: Chris998

Chris998 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:05:19 +0000

” millions will die in his “holy” war,” I meant…

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:08:36 +0000

Berg also brought Friday Night Lights TV. The first season is some of the best television to ever air. Never really knew much about Dune, but if Berg is directing, I’m interested.

By: rafa1215

rafa1215 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:47:17 +0000

I don’t know if Berg can make one movie for Dune – seems to be a two parter to me. I hope he can pull off Hancock – then maybe we’ll see what he’s learned from that movie and add his knowledge to this movie.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:36:10 +0000

Will not work. No way, no how. As cheesy as the Lynch version turned out to be, I think it should be a signifier as to how hard it is to put (as mentioned above) such an amazing complex story onto screen. It just doesn’t work.

Now, I might be intrigued if they use the Moebius sketches and digitally insert Dali into the film.

By: Eric Offhill

Eric Offhill — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:37:35 +0000

I am a firm believer that Dune, written nearly 40 years ago, is probably the most important work of science fiction of modern times. If you replace “spice” with “oil” and “Arakkis” for the Middle East, you would almost believe that Herbert is prophesizing events to come. And yet, as important as I think Dune is in modern literature, is there any need for another rendition of this story? Yes, Pride and Prejudice has been made a billion times, the most recent being the best in my opinion. And I might feel the same way about this newest version of Dune. But is it just me or this yet another symptom of Remake Fever?

By: WillTheSecond

WillTheSecond — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:35:55 +0000

I liked the Lynch version: the first time I saw it I thought it was great even though it made no sense to me (hadn’t read the book) and still still believe it has more of the ‘feel’ of the novel than the miniseries. It is a deeply flawed film, but I’m afraid I feel the opposite to the article: I felt Lynch’s film had more heart (and heartplugs! Okay, those were crap…) than the mini-series, but that might just be because of the shite production values.

Dune deserves two 2.5/3 hour films. After reading the book I’m certain of it and I think it would really work best as a 6/8 hour TV serial in 1-hour slots, but that’s just me.

By: pendragon00

pendragon00 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:11:27 +0000

I must not fear, fear is the mind killer, fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration

I loved the David Lynch version (except the US cut which he took his name off) but i got the impression that if you didnt already know the story you would become hopelessly lost.

I agree, i think they need atleast 5 hours to tell that story