You're craving some good sci fi entertainment?
Somethin that is not related to Star Wars or Star Trek.
Look no further, Denis Villeneuve the visionary director who gave us films like �Arrival�
and �Blade Runner 2049� is very likely to adapt another universe for the big screen.
We will now tell you everything you need to know about his upcoming dune project.
But as always � be aware that this video may contain spoilers.
Dune by Frank Herbert first debuted in 1965,was met with critical acclaim and therefore was
followed by numerous volumes.
Herbert himself wrote 6 books that all dealt with the desert planet.
The final volume was published a year before his death.
His son brian herbert continued his legacy and expanded the dune universe with multiple
prequel volumes and other stories that were all based on his fathers stories.
The Dune universe is not your space ship, space battle or crazy technology kind of sci
fi.
Herberts universe is a lot more like a space version of the love child of game of thrones
and house of cards.
Herbert tells interesting stories of intrigue and everything revolves around the planet
of dune.
This planet is home to the most precious ressource in the universe: the drug spice.
It extends its users life duration, gives them better health, and grants them supernatural
abilities � some are even able to look into the future.
But regardless of all the positive aspects � spice is still a highly addictive drug.
One time users are immediately addicted.
And withdrawal leads to a painful death.
Nonetheless spice is an important factor within this universe � especially when it comes
to space travel � since navigators heavilly rely on spice when embarking on a space journey.
The planet dune or arrakis is run by the house of harkonnen - as described in the first novel.
The emperor send leto lord of the house of asteides to the planet.
He does not to this out of charity.
Quite the contrary he fears the influence of the atreides among all the other houses.
This is why he rather sends an enemy to dune � since the house of harkonnen and the house
of atreides are in the middle of a feud with each other � and the emperor now hopes that
the house of atreides can be wiped out completely.
The most important character of the story is Letos young son Paul who becomes a lonesome
traveler on the desert planet dune following his fathers death.There he stumbles upon the
nomadic people of fremen who soon worship Paul as their messiah upon witnessing his
precognic abilities.
Politics, Religion, Intrigues, Science Fiction and giant sandworms are essential parts of
the world of dune � and yeah we know that this was a very vague introduction to this
universe.
Villeneuves Dune There have been a total of three attempts
to adapt the books before.
Denis Villeneuve will throw his hat in the ring, making him the 4th director to approach
this giant.
Villeneuve himself describes it as his dream project � thus keeping the anticipation
high.
His Dune is set to be the �Star Wars� for adults � whatever that means.
The script will be written by none other than Eric Roth, who already won an Academy Award
for his script for �Forrest Gumb�.
Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert confirmed, to have already read the script.
According to him it merely covers the first half of the first book.
Villeneuve himself stated, that Dune is meant to be a two part film in order to do the complexity
of the source material justice.
After all the plan is to kick of an entire dune universe, which is why the rights for
a tv series have also been sold already.
Not alot has been revealed regarding the upcoming film.
�Call me by your name� star Timothee Chalamet is rumored to take on the role of Paul Atreides.
The best film that was never made Even long before Villeneuves attempt, numerous
directors tried to adapt �Dune�.
One of them was chilean director Aejandro Jodorowsky, who is notorious for his esoteric
and surreal films.
Jodorowsky attempted to adapt �dune� back in 1975 and really tried to put his all into
the project.
His proposed cast list alone was impressive: Orson Wells was set to play Baron Hakonen
and legendary artist Salvador Dali himself was supposed to play the emperor.
But this is where the problems began.
Apparently Dali demanded a salary of 100.000 dollars per hour.
Jodorowsky was willing to agree with these terms under the condition, that he would shoot
all of Dalis scenes within an hour.
He intended to use a mechanical dummy as a stand in for additional scenes.
As crazy as this plan may seem it was topped by Jodorowskys script which according to Frank
Herbert was as thick as a phone book and covered enough material for 14 hours.
In order to get his vision done he hired the french illustrator moebius and swiss artist
H.R. Giger in order to breathe live into the different sets, space ships and creatures.
Unfortunately the film never became reality.
Jodorowsky spent 2 million dollars (from his estimated total budget of 9 million dollars)
on preproduction.
Ridley Scott was later hired to save the project but by then time was up for Jorodowskys project.
But this attempt brought Scott and Giger together who would go on to work on Alien.
Concept Arts for the film acted as inspiration for the comic book �Incal�, which
was eventually published by Jorodowskys and Moebius.
The hated cult film 1981 marked another attempt to adapt dune.
Eccentric director David Lynch was hired to bring the tale of the house altreides to the
big screen.
1984 �Dune� was eventually published.
The audience and cirtics alike however were not exactly pleased.
It seemed to complicated for people who weren't familiar with the source material and yet
to derivative from the books.
Since this Dune film was considered a failure all future project were subsequentially cancelled.
In a later published interview Lynch admitted, that he never should have made the movie in
the first place, and that pressure from the producers forced him to complete the project.
Interestingly though Dune has developped a cult following throughout the years.
Even Frank Herbert seems to be fond of Lynchs version.
The Mini Series In 2000 a 3 part miniseries called �Frank
Herberts Dune� aired on the sicifi channel.
It was actually critically acclaimed and engendered a sequel called �Children of Dune�.
Both shows can be found on the list of the highest rated programs for the network.
Now Denis Villeneuves time has come.
When exactly his version will hit theatres remains to be seen.
But who knows?
Maybe this will kick off an entirely new cinematic universe.
What do you think of dune?
Are you a fan of the books?
Are you lookin forward to the new film?
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