MacLachlan gave Chalamet his blessing as Paul Atreides aka Usul Muad'dib
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/kyle-maclachlan-dune-denis-villeneuve-reaction-1202208536/
Awesome. The 1984 movie was a travesty.
shareWhy? I mean obviously to pack that huge book into a single installment of a movie is impossible, but still they did a cool job with the imagery of the movie I thought. The one criticism that I would level against it was that as amazing as the imagery was, it was too cartoonish when it came to the villains. Still as I wrote below, the images from that movie and the mysterious mystique of the movie have over-written the images in my imagination from when I read the book as a teenager over a decade before the movie.
shareIt was a very good film.
One thing it did well is capture the weirdness of the setting.
It was just mentioned that the villains were "cartoonish" but that's because the person doesn't know history. A long time ago there was a queen who had girls killed so she could bathe in their blood. One king had a giant metal bull constructed, they would put people in it, and roast them then enjoy their mix of screams while steam made musical sounds coming out the various holes in the bull. Caligula used to rape and torture people and force people into orgies. The Egyptians and Vikings would murder everyone because someone died.
In the 1984 film the director was trying to show what an inbred king of a planet would be like. It was very creative.
Another part of the story was that humans had rejected technology and spent a huge amount of time breeding people for certain "computer" roles. That made them extremely weird and different from standard people. He tried to show that too.
If the current director doesn't commit to that, it will be a boring story. Hi, I'm am a Mentat, we are smart because we drink juice! Yeah! Instead, such a person needs to be SHOWN as a really strange type of person, and have dialogue.
I had forgotten that David Lynch directed that Maclachlan's version of Dune.
Somehow I had always heard it was Dino De Laurentiis movie.
Dino De Laurentiis ... executive producer (uncredited)
When I saw the movie I was disappointed in it, but over time the images from that movie have superseded the images in my own head from when I read the book long before. Dune is just one of those books that demands a major re-imagining for film/video.
I am not sure if anyone has the time or interest in it today. I wonder what the sales are or how many people have read this book Dune since 2000? It is a major time investment in a society that doesn't do that much reading anymore.
brux, sadly, because of the Corona virus lockdown, people have a lot more time on their hands to do some reading.
I recently bought The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, a book I loved when I was a teenager (I'm 68 now), for a reread.
I might just do the same with Dune.
I did that with some books I remember enjoying. One of them, maybe you have read it as well, was Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. I really like that book around about say 1974 or so. It was not as good as I remember it being. Same thing really with the TV show Star Trek. I guess it is hard to go back in time.
shareLynch’s Dune was a very creative film - the look, the ambiance, the dreaminess. I loved it. The TV miniseries was a bland by-the-numbers adaptation. It wasn’t bad, but I remember little about it.
This new Dune, while I trust the director (great effort with Blade Runner), from the early pics, doesn’t instill a sense of awe in me yet. We’ll see.
Maybe it takes a bit of insanity to make a truly great Dune.
Agreed.
shareWell, maybe he shouldn't have given his blessing. The trailer shows a very sleepy Chalamet.
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