Hey, did you know there was a remake of Frank Herbert's Dune being bandied about in the blogosphere? No? Well neither did I! Talk of knocking me over with a feather. Here is the info as I read it from SciFi Scanner:David Lynch's Dune has its goofy charm, but in retrospect, he was clearly the wrong man to direct the big screen adapation of Frank Herbert's novel. Over 20 years later, we still don't have a big budget and truly faithful adaptation of Herbert's book. Hope isn't dead yet. Director Peter Berg—whose impressive resume includes Bad Things, The Rundown, Friday Night Fights, and The Kingdom—has apparently been signed to film a big-screen adaptation.
You know, I really didn't mind the scifi channel's adaptation. I thought it was pretty good matter of fact. But there is no question that it was made on a very limited budget. I am not going to totally bust on Lynch's version. That would mean that I would have to back track and do a Mexican hat dance on Blade Runner. Why, well lets just say that my favorite saying about a science fiction movie is, 'if you need a narrator to tell the audience what the movie is about, while they are watching the move, and if people in the audience are STILL telling their neighbors what the movie is really all about, your in serious trouble". That describes Blade Runner to a t and even more so, Lynch's Dune. I saw more people lean over and explain what the narrator just said while watching the movie. I had to do the same thing in Blade Runner. Most just didn't "get it" and I know, its annoying as all hell having someone explain a movie to you while your watching it, but I really got...."I have no clue what's going on" during both movies. And I loved Blade Runner! So, lets hope they don't find a need for another narrator for Dune.
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