Dune – Trailer Reaction

@Mustangride1 At this point for me it comes down to accuracy, I guess. If they can hit all the proper key plot points, leave nothing out, and get certain things right, I can probably suck it up and stomach Zendaya, I mean…I REALLY don’t like her, but there is such a thing as good out weighing bad in things. If there is enough good, it can cancel out my personal feelings on her as an actress.

That’s why I did not take a massive dump, because I can see how this movie could be good, so like many things in life, I have to actually see if it’s good before I render a decision. My biggest problem is that I’m a demanding nerd and I want this my way, ie. source material accurate :P

Now my big questions remaining:

1) Are they going to do the Weirding Way right? Will The Voice sound corny or be good?

2) Will they properly hit the most important story reveals?

3) Will characters die when they are supposed to? Or will they keep them around too long just to keep certain actors on the screen…I mean…Duncan HAS TO DIE early on. Momoa can’t be hanging around after the fall of House Atreides.

4) Are they going to get Alia right? Or will they make the Lynch mistake and not really give her proper screen time?

These are just thoughts off the top of my head. The thing about Dune is that there are so many layers, so many points that MUST be hit if they plan on going the distance and doing the entire story. One missed plot point can ruin the entire thing going forward. That’s what worries me the most, something important changed that makes a future plot detail almost impossible to happen, which is another reason why Gender Swaps are dangerous……and I’m talking about how you make a Ghola remember their past in the latter parts of the series….you cannot have the wrong sexuality choices going on when it comes to that…that would be too much lore breaking….

And let’s be honest, there are going to be problems adapting the rest of it all things considered.

1) The guy playing Paul…will he be able to pull off being the Preacher in Children of Dune? Can he bring a powerful enough performance down the road?

2) What are they going to do if/when we get to God Emperor of Dune? That’s not exactly a story made for live action, if you ask me. Then again, Mamoa being Duncan might be the only thing that propels and carries a movie like that forward since he is someone people want to see. That is why I say, maybe someone had a glimmer of insight by signing him on to be Duncan since as of God Emperor a strong portrayal of Duncan is necessary. Not to mention…if we get to Chapterhouse….the sex scenes that would involve Mamoa will make the ladies swoon…and that really means they need to give us guys someone equally hot to play Murbella.

Geez…I’m really nerding out on this here.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Roas.
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It seems to me in 2010 some pact was made within Hollywood to forego any semblance of creating entertainment so that they could make propaganda 100% of the time. I find a clear distinction between pre-2010 films and post-2010 films as it relates to the level of Woke.

With that said I have zero hope for this. However, I desperately hope I am wrong.

Can this be pulled off?

400-page book in 6 hours on film.

Well, Fellowship was 400 and was great.  350 for Towers and WOW. Let’s face it 400 pages for Return and that is and was great, LOTR Movies all were under 4 hours each with about the same page count in the books.

Dune we are looking to get 2 ½ hours per movie so 6 hours total. I would say they have the right amount of time down to do it right.

The Weirding way or prana-nervature and prana-bindu both I hope to see, something so far left out from all other adaptations was the “bindu” I want to see that in fights. As to the “voice”, I am curious to how they will do it, I would like to hear it in a trailer but also would like it to be a surprise in the movie. My biggest hope is to see/hear it use in many ways from a whisper to thunderous to so slight only we true fans know it is what we just heard and saw.

Hitting story points, will be interesting but as we know, leaving out the “scouring” did not affect LOTR an adding to much messed up the Hobbit, So I hope they find the proper balance. True fans will be able to debate things for sure.

But if we are to get sequels it has to be made in a way a “lay-person” will enjoy it and want more. I.E. Consume Product… want more…. Consume Product, rinse and repeat.

Alia, I really am hoping they get her right, but as of now we have no listing for the actress. I do not know how they will find a 4-year-old to pull off her. So here I think we will get some aging to maybe 7- to 9-year-old, understandable for a film and for Alai’s character.

Now as to Timothy, and him as Paul, I will admit I am concerned as he does not have the physical appearance of power, but I also have to remember Paul was base off T. E. Lawrence, yes Lawrence of Arabia. Pictures I have seen of him, are not too dissimilar to Timothy. So that said, it will be on his acting ability. But isn’t that what it always comes down to?

Now the “score” I am really interested in we haven’t really got any hints on it, and for something with the scale we have seen in the trailers, we need a score equally as big. I would love to have somehow worked in “To Tame a Land”, but that is the super fan in me. It also points to the Fandom of the Books to have a Group like Maiden make an epic saga song about it. And TOTO did the sountrack to 1984, along with Sting being in it as Feyd. You hit a Lot of fans from many genres of rock.

As to any sequels in the series, lets first worry about getting through the this first film, and then we can think and worry or speculate on what comes after, is my opinion.

Alia, probably won’t be in this one, she will be born later and make her appearance then, but yes it would have been great to have Alicia be Jessica.

Though

I do not see an actress listed for Princess Irulan, she could play her. Come to think of it neither is the Emperor (Charles Dance) Please.

Dune Prequel “Dune: The Sisterhood” Moves Forward Adding Showrunner

John Campea

Sisterhood has so so many things that can an in this current (PC-environment) will go wrong. I can see them Overpowering the “Bene Gesserit”. They are so powerful in many ways yet there stories are moving behind the scenes, manipulating an molding politics an bloodlines for their purpose.

I can see Hollywood showing these powers, overuse of “the voice” an certainly in the control of their bodies for the pure purpose to show WAAAMANNNN POWERRRRR….. That would be a horrible thing as they sisterhood was very secretive an mysterious, they should remain so only giving us glimpses an always wondering just how powerful they are.

World Building will be mandatory for a Prequel an I am not sure anyone in Hollywood is capable of that right now, We will have to know about all of it, at least an overview and I do not have faith anyone understands that right now.  I wish they did the two primary movies first and seen where things go from there.