jasonspaz Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 This is great, And hopefully the new DUNE RTS games will followhttp://movies.ign.com/articles/860/860333p1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egeides Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Thks for the scoop jasonBerg looks like his cranium takes the wave of his haircut. I love it, good start.Hope he acts Paul! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 No word over a the official site yet, but I'm glad it is finally confirmed. Fed2k interview with Peter Berg anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeonGrey Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Well, if I remember right Kingdom of Heaven was pretty long....so maybe he won't be afraid to make this into a 3-hour movie. I'd be more than okay with that. If people can sit through a 3-hour adaptation of LOTR and love it, I think it can happen with Dune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 He did The Kingdom, not Kingdom of Heaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeonGrey Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 He did The Kingdom, not Kingdom of Heaven.Yeah...I noticed that right after I posted this. Woops, thanks for correcting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I keep seeing a 2009 tentpole film, but they don't have any writers yet... bad sign. Hopefully they'll push the release date back and not rush the productions.Anyone else notice that John Harrison, writer and director of the mini, writer of CoD mini, and executive producer on both miniseires, as well as rubestien, who also exec produced both miniseries' are both exec producing this film? I wonder if they'll have any input into it, or if it's jsut a title/money due to rights issues.BTW, Tin Man knocked the Dune Miniseries' down a notch on the most watched sci-fi channel list.Hmm... sci-fi channel shows... harrison and rubenstien... new dune movie... two past attempts by those producers to make a dune tv series in the last 7 years... what corporation owns paramount now? It didn't used to be GE, but that may have changed... makes one think, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 What exactly is a tentpole film? I looked it up on Wikipedia but that was pretty vague. Paramount is owned by Viacom now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 A tent pole film is a studio's major release of the year. Each studio usually has 2-4 of them. They're the super expensive, super big blockbusters that the entire companies fate relies upon. Think Indiana Jones this may.Sci-fi is owned by NBC (which is owned by General Electric), not viacom. Still it's fairly common for shows produced by one company to be bought by another network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 With the backing of such a major company like Viacom, this film will have a lot of money behind it. The fact that they have made it a tentpole film suggests it will become a franchise too.This Wikipedia link might help explain a few things regarding the companies:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_International_Pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 And hopefully the new DUNE RTS games will follow if this happened we will make u emperor .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Herbert's Dune, originally published in 1965, spawned five sequels written by the author; since his death in 1986, Herbert's son Brian has co-written a number of prequels and sequels with Kevin J. Anderson. Naturally, if things go the way they're supposed to, Paramount wouldn't mind adapting the lot of them; as Variety puts it, the studio "envisions the project as a tentpole film," and certainly has an eye toward turning it into a franchise.From Rotten Tomatoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Latest news from the Official Messageboards, a post from Bryon Merritt (emphasis is from original post):I can't give out a lot of information because they are still building the movie from the ground up. What I can tell you is that "we" haven't hired anyone to do the script. That'll be up to the production studio. The budget ...er ...I wish I could tell you! But I can't give numbers. Watch IMDB for information that'll probably be coming soon.Kevin and Brian are co-producers' date=' yes, just as it says in the Variety article. [i']Co-Producer Defined: A Co-producer is typically a Line Producer who has also performed a substantial portion of the creative producing function. Alternatively, they may be the lead Producer from another production company that is co-producing the film, or a partner or corporate officer from the production entity producing the film. In rare cases, a Co-producer may also be the person who optioned, developed or packaged the project. In all instances, Co-producers are subordinate to the Producer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezcatlipoca Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I'm a bit excited but reserved as well. With it's inaccuracies, I enjoyed Lynch's version. With it's inaccuracies, I did not like Sci-fi's Miniseries. I can be a good boy, and using my brain say "well, I hope they get a good writer", but then there's the Dune side of me that says "fuck a script writer; use the god damned book, or don't make the movie!" I suppose we can expect to see a reissue of the original book with some unmachable actor on the front of it once the movie comes out :(. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Regarding actors, I started a thread where you can say who you'd want in the cast:http://forum.dune2k.com/index.php?topic=20463.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 With it's inaccuracies, I enjoyed Lynch's version. With it's inaccuracies, I did not like Sci-fi's Miniseries.The miniseries was way more accurate than the movie... Because they had 5.5 (? ) hours instead of 2.weirding modules. lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezcatlipoca Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 The miniseries was way more accurate than the movie... Because they had 5.5 (? ) hours instead of 2.weirding modules. lol.Yes, on some fronts (technology and battle) it could be considered more accurate. but it did have inaccuracies. And yet even with reduced inaccuracies, I still liked it less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I prefer the mini over the lynch film (and the Messiah part of CoD above all, that was really well done) but one thing I found interesting was that the dialogue in the lynch version is mroe accurate than in the mini. The mini seemed to make random, bizarre changes to the dialogue while Lynch's film kept it intact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard3000 Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Mahdi, we only saw the Alan Smithee version of the film; you can't really make a judgement on that. Besides, you probably couldn't see much of it through the tears you were crying over me whupping you at darts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Mahdi, we only saw the Alan Smithee version of the film; you can't really make a judgement on that. Besides, you probably couldn't see much of it through the tears you were crying over me whupping you at darts.Hard to believe as it may be Adrian, but I have, on rare occasions, watched movies without you.I know, you're shocked, saddened, and feeling a little rejected, but it's the truth. Better you hear it from me now than later from someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Interview coming shortly, keep watching this space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard3000 Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Hard to believe as it may be Adrian, but I have, on rare occasions, watched movies without you.I know, you're shocked, saddened, and feeling a little rejected, but it's the truth. Better you hear it from me now than later from someone else.That's. Not. True. WhywouldyousaysuchathingyoursomeanandIHATEYOUImsorryItakeitback.Besides, you told me when we watched the Smithee version you hadn't seen the movie in forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Turns out I had seen it about five years ago, I'd just forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/IMDB page. Maybe someone should add FED2k on the website list and start posting ont he forum, let the fans know about this site.Also, maybe a thread should be started containing all links we have to info concerning the movie, like the old interview archive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Hmmmm... I'm hearing through the grapevine that it's possible a minor, fleeting role may have been cast already. And that someone on this site has "got a secret".Hmmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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