That would be nearly an entirely different story than the actual Dune:Messiah!

Pattern Recognition is a very perfect novel, plus it draws attention to a fascinatingly overlooked part of the modern human condition, with Cayce’s reactions to brands/imagery. My reactions to them obviously aren’t as extreme as hers, but I very much recognised the feelings, and even the specific branding/imagery she…

I dunno, I just never cared much for “Blame Canada” myself. Ok, so it scores high on the social satire scale in the modified J. Evans Pritchard diagram, but on the composition scale it doesn’t do very well, it’s just not very musical, and mostly resembles a military march in structure (not surprising) so it’s not…

Yeah, the whole phone thing...

I don’t actually mind too much about DV’s changes to the characters (bar the feeling that he turned Stilgar too much into comic relief, which nagged at me), but I remember my biggest feeling coming away from Part One was that he did nowhere near enough to show just why Paul was so dangerous. Nothing about the Prana…

Haven’t watched Masters of the Air yet (or anything with him), is Callum good? Can he play broken enough to play Case? and then we need to know who’s playing the Dixie Flatline. A million fancasts going back to at LEAST 1986 have been putting Harry Dean Stanton in, so, too late for that...But this is apple so they…

And then maybe we can bring Christopher Nolan in to round out the trilogy with the long awaited adaptation of TekWar.

If I never hear another word about this movie, I’d still be more confident that it comes out in December 2026 than a new Star Wars movie.

Remember when there were no Grogu toys after Mandalorian came out? That’s because Favreau specifically avoided the typical merch design pipeline. He realized that’s where most leaks originate, due to the lead times to tool up for manufacturing, and he was right. Baby Yoda surprised everyone.

I used to work for a toy company (not Hasbro) that did a lot of work with some big-name licenses, producing goods based on movies, comics, video game characters, etc. Marvel, DC, Star Wars included. I was working there during the lead-up to and release of The Force Awakens. Companies involved in such products are…

Fun fact thing: “Up there” is the only musical number in the movie without any naughty words/language whatsoever, and it is very positive and uplifting, yet “Blame Canada” was the one which was nominated for best song or whatever at the Oscars, and they had to re-write it because of the swearing, because “Up There” is…

I never knew that about Singing in the Rain, that set couldn’t have smelled that great after a days shooting with watered down milk and hot stage lighting lol.

On the other hand, does it matter what color the filming prop was? Sometimes (and admittedly this was more common in the days of black and white films) they choose the color based on how it will look in the finished product and not what color it actually is. Famously, Psycho (and other movies) used chocolate syrup in…

He’s also tapped to direct Rendezvous with Rama, based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel.

Every song in this thing is a banger, it’s insane.

I thought we all agreed to pretend that Wild Wild West never existed?

I dunno, I think the reason Star Wars has endured so long, especially beyond its initial three films, is precisely because it was so heavily and successfully merchandised, and because it had so many designs that were ripe for merchandising. It was tailor made for toys with cool space ships, robots, aliens, troopers,…

The helmet won’t be available until later this year. The design for the show definitely came first, and then was sent to Hasbro for toy production.

No opinion on color, but this does bring up an interesting topic. Back in the original trilogy, characters/wardrobe, models, and sets were created, then later emulated in merchandizing. Their sales performance were tied to how good of a concept the original designs were. But now, it would seem that merch is coming…