Ya Hya Chouhada!!!!

[sirandrew]

I did not think this would happen.  I had thought that the Sci-Fi Channel heresy had doomed any possible remakes for at least 20 years, maybe more.  I was wrong.  I was sweetly, gloriously wrong.

Paramount has greenlit a big (apparently VERY big)  budget remake of Dune apparently to be directed by Peter Berg.  I'm not tremendously familiar with Berg, but he says that he's been given almost complete control financially and will be producing a faithful adaptation of the book, more faithful than the Lynch heresy or the Sci-Fi Channel heresy that he agrees were inadequate.  He says he's a fan of the book.  He says he's going to do it right.  I want to believe him.  It's failed twice so there's PLENTY out there to tell Berg how not to make the film.

This news pleases me.......

IT PLEASES ME

I should immediately write Berg a letter dictating how the film should be done.  It should be split into three parts and done LITERALLY and word for word.  The budget should be $600 million.  I should design costumes.

Comments

[tvsnick.livejournal.com]

Yet Jodorowsky is NOT pleased.

[sirandrew.livejournal.com]

You know, I sort of wish he'd been able to make his Dune, just to see it. It wouldn't have been Frank Herbert's vision at all, but it would've been a trip. I'm also glad it didn't happen because I fear that if he'd pulled off getting it made that it would've essentially doomed any hope of a remake forever.

[eledamris.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm still waiting on a continuation of Children of Dune. I NEED GOD EMPEROR. The only problem is the question of what to do after Chapter House? I honestly want to wipe my ass with a copy of Hunters of Dune.

[sirandrew.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure God Emperor is filmable, at least not for a mass market. I'd go for it but I don't know if a Producer could be sold on the profitability factor. Heretics and Chapter House are VERY filmable, the only problem being they'd have to be rated X to pull them off properly. The whole imprinting of General Teg would be sort of a sticky subject with the mass market too since he was a child. Still, they probably are the most action oriented of all the books and I think they'd go well.

Yeah, I don't know what to do after. I haven't touched Hunters of Dune, I won't touch it. I actually DID wipe my ass with a Brian Herbert book. Literally. I'm not kidding. I wiped my ass with its pages and threw it away in cat litter. Ling tried to convince me to mail the book to Herbert, I only didn't to skip out on a stalker charge.