This movie sounds like it’s made for depressed influencers who are rapidly growing too old for their target demographic.

According to a new report from Deadline (via Collider), the third installment of Denis Villeneuve’s proposed Dune trilogy will be an adaptation of Dune Messiah.

THR reports Showtime is no longer moving forward with its Gattaca TV series from Homeland creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa.

Kevin McKeon stated the upcoming Barney & Friends movie starring Daniel Kaluuya will lean into “the millennial angst of the property,” focusing on “the trials and tribulations” of being a disenchanted adult who grew up with the character.

This was my main problem with the Star Wars sequels as well: the filmmakers could’ve gone off in any number of directions with new characters and situations, but they decided in the end just to make it solely about the descendants of the characters from the earlier movies. There was nothing in those movies we hadn’t…

I think the turning point is 2006, when Disney bought Pixar. There were still some great movies in the pipe, like Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Up, but their development mostly predated the sale. After 2010 you start seeing more sequels and with a few exceptions the original movies don’t feel as daring or original.

To reiterate, I don’t think they’d have the scene in Part One where Paul tells Jessica he knows she’s pregnant if that wasn’t the case.

She does something pretty significant at the end of the novel. It’s a helluva scene, and one of my favorites in the Lynch version.

Most of it looks fine.

Part Two is supposed to cover the second half of the novel. So there could be a time jump, just not at the beginning.

IIRC, the SFC version dispenses with Caladan altogether and opens with the Atreides on the Heighliner heading for Arrakis. 

Slideshows on websites are how the Butlerian Jihad got started.

I bet it would blow your damn mind if I told you there were 49 movies of A Christmas Carol.

Again, it’s based on the same source material. So yeah, it’s gonna be fairly similar with slight variations in tone and style.

What’s crazy is that the cinematographer was Vittorio Storaro, the same DP who shot Apocalypse Now.

Also IIRC the floating thing is something the movies came up with? I’d have to go back and check the book, but I remember that the suspensors stitched into the Baron’s flesh were just there to carry his weight and allow him to walk around comfortably, he couldn’t actually levitate.

I remember a casual acquaintance remarking once that “It’s 10,000 years in the future, so you know they’re not fucking around.”

There are some decent fanedits on YouTube with the missing footage that was cut for time. Some of them feel closer to the novel. I think there was even one that got rid of the unnecessary voiceovers.

The Sci-Fi miniseries was well-intentioned but a lot of the time it felt like a school play put on by the Rushmore kids.

Yeah, I have to assume the topic came up during preproduction and everyone decided it was shit they didn’t need, so they went with pale, hairless figures. The Baron is also a lot less bombastic overall.