There is no director’s cut of the 1984 movie. There’s an anti-director’s cut that Lynch had nothing to do with and objected so strongly to that he had his name removed from the credits.

In the comments on the last Dune article, people pointed out that the Harkonnens in the book are basically Trumps in Space, the only major difference being that the Baron is actually a very shrewd, calculating character.

Oh wow, Glenn Howerton was in That 80s Show?

It had a lot of Hammond’s Clinton impersonation in it—to the point where I had a hard time connecting it with Biden.

Asimov was only 21 when he wrote the first Foundation story, and the rest of the ones that were collected as Foundation and Foundation and Empire were all done over the next three or four years. The two parts of Second Foundation came a few years later, when he was in his late twenties.

Yes, that’s not quite the sort of thing I was thinking of.

Sex was a motif in any number of Asimov stories, and there are explicit sex scenes in several of his books, particularly the later ones. Robots of Dawn, Forward the Foundation (which I seem to recall is somewhat unusual in that it attempts to portray intimacy between an aging, long-term couple), Foundation’s Edge…

Has there ever been a show where the gimmick is that the guests or contestants are always the same, but every week has a new host?

Only watched the first episode, but I thought there were already some hints about the Second Foundation. Gaal Dornick seemed to be a sensitive.

The first book doesn’t really have a plot because it’s not really a novel. It’s a collection of short stories and novellas, each of which deals with a political crisis and how it is solved.

No, in the book he’s the brother of the kid they hit (who died), and he has been insinuating himself into their separate lives using different identities. That’s a trick you couldn’t really do in a film, since it relies on the reader not realizing that characters with different names are actually the same person.…

Cabin Pressure is brilliant, and Cumberbatch is great in a part completely different from the roles he has become known for, as the insecure, put-upon, gullible and easily flustered Captain Martin Crieff.

I take it you’ve seen I, Claudius?

I defy you.

I thought it was utterly underwhelming, and I was pretty close to falling asleep at several points. The story was hot nonsense and 100% formulaic; I defy anyone to claim they didn’t see the end credits teaser coming. Felt more like a Marvel knockoff or the pilot for one of the less successful TV shows than a proper…

they were thoroughly middle class institutions and not something a monarch or future monarch would even consider attending. Nobility, maybe, at this point, but not royals.

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/david-lynch-interview-dune-starlog-magazine/

I think you should read it. It gets very directly at many of the issues you are debating.

It’s not hard to be better then Lynch’s version he admitted to never reading the book before making the movie so he had no idea if he was doing anything wrong and just stuck to the script.

Disney could save itself a world of hurt in both cases by admitting that, yes, there is some justice in the allegations but there are also substantial differences (as you’ve pointed out), and they’d be happy to negotiate in good faith to reach an agreement.