Movies: Presumably 2024, maybe Beyond

Absolutely.

I just wonder whether these days an adaptation of a brand which was established decades ago still has enough fans to buy a ticket - and fans which are ready to part with their knowledge and expectations, willing to see “their” story being turned into a simplified contemporary update which shakes off its basic ideas.

Which is not to say that I expect Villeneuve to have done that. The movie could actually be much closer to the novel than the trailer seems to indicate. But I fear that Villeneuve had to contend with all the studio notes which demanded DUNE to be snazzier, hipper than it actually is. Especially after his box office disappointment with BLADE RUNNER 2049 (which really was very true to the original and shook off almost every convention one associates with such an endeavour these days).

Maybe I liked Lynch´s DUNE because it was filtered through his weirdness, thereby achieving another kind of distance the novel embraces.

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