Fried Gold wrote:I can't see the point.
The Lynch film is unique but definitely flawed...in some undefinable way.
so sorry wrote:In all this "dream casting" talk I'm surprised no ones mentioned Nathon Fillion.
You browncoats are slipping...
Pacino86845 wrote:so sorry wrote:In all this "dream casting" talk I'm surprised no ones mentioned Nathon Fillion.
You browncoats are slipping...
Maybe they're just slowly coming to grips with reality... PWNT!
judderman wrote:he created the definitive Paul when he cast Kyle Mclaughlin.
judderman wrote:OK, so who would you guys have cast then?
burlivesleftnut wrote:Wow I love Bruno Ganz as Harkonen. Let's just eb agreed and move on to Paul.
Emile Hirsch anyone?
Pacino86845 wrote:burlivesleftnut wrote: Wow I love Bruno Ganz as Harkonen. Let's just eb agreed and move on to Paul.
Emile Hirsch anyone?
I just realized that people are talking about this kid's performance in Into The Wild... is that what makes you suggest him for Paul? I've only seen him in The Girl Next Door, and Speed Racer isn't exactly getting me all excited.
wonkabar wrote:Pacino86845 wrote:burlivesleftnut wrote: Wow I love Bruno Ganz as Harkonen. Let's just eb agreed and move on to Paul.
Emile Hirsch anyone?
I just realized that people are talking about this kid's performance in Into The Wild... is that what makes you suggest him for Paul? I've only seen him in The Girl Next Door, and Speed Racer isn't exactly getting me all excited.
Don't forget Lords of Dogtown
judderman wrote:Jodorowsky and Giger should get back together and try again. The only fragment left over from the alternate reality in which thier DUNE was made is Giger's Harkonnen chair, which is so cool I almost want to see the rest of the movie made around it.
judderman wrote:Jodorowsky and Giger should get back together and try again. The only fragment left over from the alternate reality in which thier DUNE was made is Giger's Harkonnen chair, which is so cool I almost want to see the rest of the movie made around it.
judderman wrote:
The project is out to writers, with the producers looking for a faithful adaptation of the Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book. The filmmakers consider its theme of finite ecological resources particularly timely.
Brendon Connelly wrote:If this rumour is true, however, there’s a little more to it. As well as informing us that Berg and his Film 44 company have made a break for the door, the story goes that some frontrunning candidates for the canvas chair have already come in to focus: Neill Blomkamp and Neil Marshall. Bafflingly, it’s Marshall who is said to be the frontrunner
havocSchultz wrote:I hear Ratner's interested - but he wants it to be set in modern day Vegas...cause they've got the coolest dunes and the craziest strippers...
My fingers are now crossed...
judderman wrote:Now I love Dog Soldiers and The Descent, but Marshall is not ready for this kind of project. He's shown that he needs a tight budget to keep his artistic ego in check. Blomkamp? He can do good scifi on a budget, can go epic while not going insane, but has only one major film to his name. And that had a pretty basic, single-thread storyline. Could he handle something like Dune?
Mike Fleming wrote:Paramount Pictures has set Pierre Morel to direct “Dune,” the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic novel.
Morel, who last directed the action hit “Taken,” has signed a deal with the studio and will work toward getting the script right. Pic is one of the biggest priorities on the slate of Par Motion Picture Group prexy Adam Goodman.
Kevin Misher’s Misher Films will produce with New Amsterdam’s Richard Rubenstein, who produced the telepic “Dune” and the sequel “Children of Dune.”
Pic had been developed by Peter Berg, who exited when he committed to Universal’s “Battleship,” based on the Hasbro naval combat board game. Universal set a July 1, 2011 release for that film and committed to follow with Berg’s passion project, the Afghan was drama “Lone Survivor.” Those back-to-back directing gigs will keep Berg busy for at least two years.
Berg developed a “Dune” draft with Josh Zetumer, the script who separately has been scripting the fourth installment of “The Bourne Identity” for Universal. Paramount will work off Zetumer’s draft, but the studio will secure another writer shortly.
“Dune” was first turned into a film by David Lynch, whose 1984 effort was not a financial success. Herbert’s novel—about an intergalactic struggle to control the supply of a valuable spice found only on the remote desert planet Arrakis—remains the biggest selling sci fi novel and it’s still enormously popular. Morel, for instance, is a long time fan who brought his well-worn copy of the novel with him to meetings at Paramount, sources said.
The studio will begin doing R&D work on a picture that promises to be pricey.
Deal makes “Dune” a candidate to be the next directing assignment for Morel, who is also in early stage development on a sequel to “Taken.” He is also developing “Pursuit,” an action thriller at Universal based on the exploits of conflict photographer Jason Howe. Howe fell in love with a woman while on assignment in Colombia, only to discover she was an assassin. Morel most recently wrapped the John Travolta-starrer “From Paris with Love.” He is repped by WME and Artist Talent Management.
DerLanghaarige wrote:Of course he is "a fan of the source" and his movie will be "faithful". I wanna hear a director say just one time stuff like: "Nah, I don't like source material. My movie will be something completely different."
TheBaxter wrote:DerLanghaarige wrote:Of course he is "a fan of the source" and his movie will be "faithful". I wanna hear a director say just one time stuff like: "Nah, I don't like source material. My movie will be something completely different."
didn't jj abrams say that about star trek?
TheBaxter wrote:well, that's about as close as you'll get to someone saying they don't like it. why would anyone want to direct a film for a property they don't like?
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