Sci-Fi Dune

[TheVileOne]

Chani is Paul's lover and shouldn't be much older than him. Paul is 15 years old when we meet him in the first book.

Her features are described as "darkly elfin." Fremen are a desert people, so it makes sense that they would have darker skin or look similar to native Middle-Easterners in their appearance.

Let the Mighty Whitey tropes and complaints begin!

Dances with Fremen!

 

[FVD]

I believe Chani was 13 when she met Paul for the first time, the last I checked. And Paul can pass off having an olive-skinned complexion, much like his father.

 

[SProsser]

Amy Adams for Lady Jessica.

 

[Sawyer]

That first post in two months didn't get me needlessly excited at all.

 

[moreorless]

Yeah I think Saldana is too old, the characters will likely be aged up a bit and probably cast a bit older than that but I can't see her working as Chani. Scarlet Johansson would have been ideal a decade ago, today I could see her working well as Irulan if they included a lot of voiceovers of the quotes.

Amy Adams seems a bit too "nice" for Jessica to me, I think you need someone with a bit more cold aloofness personally, Emily Blunt I can see more.

I see Ciaran Hinds working well for Thufir Hawat personally, grumpy enough but with a believable kind streak. To go more Game of Thrones surely Charles Dance as Shaddam? he even has the hair colour.

If he was willing to take a smaller role Fassbender as Fering seems like it would be ideal for me, the kind of "too perfect" strangeness to him although I spose its a character that could well end up cut entirely. Maybe Duncan Idaho or even Leto? Lynch's film has left me with this idea of the latter being German I spose.

Adaptation wise I still think they would be best of cutting the film in two along similar lines to the book, to get a decent version of the story into even three hours seems like a big challenge to me. Might also work effectively leaving the Harkonnen hate to faster for awhile along Game of Thrones lines.

 

[Fallen Angel]

You didn't see Amy in Nocturnal Animals if you think she can't play "cold" or "aloof". Also in "The Master" she played a cold and chilling character. Picked up her 4th Oscar nom for it n'all.

And Amy and Denis said they want to work with each other again.

I actually think Emily Blunt could be in it also. She was going to be in Blade Runner 2049 but was pregnant at the time Denis asked her to do it so she couldn't and was doing a voice over role at the time.

 

[moreorless]

Blunt to me just seems to bring it more naturally to roles though as part of a characters personality without it being the defining aspect of the performance. Granted of course predicting exactly what any actor can do just from there previous work is never ideal but I would say that in terms of looks though she does seem more like my image of Jessica, more obviously regal(although again Irulan could I spose be an alternative).

Problem the biggest challenge for any film though is going to be how to your tackle the prescience? I can see the logic in pushing back Paul's more complete visions so that his victory isn't a formality that early but how do you show them and do you tell the narrative that he spends much of the film fighting in vain against the Jihad?

Bring Eno back to do the score as well, I'v always suspected that he actually locked Toto in a cupboard and recorded the whole soundtrack(by far the best part of it IMHO) for Lynch's film himself.

 

[David H.]

That first posts in two months didn't get me needlessly excited at all.

yep...

 

[moreorless]

Do you want me to lie and tell you Sam Worthington has signed up as Paul?

 

[David H.]

Couldn't think of a better lie?

 

[Eddie Dean]

Denis Villeneuve has been fired and Ron Howard is replacing him.

 

[Hurm...]

Don't scare me like that again.

 

[SProsser]

You didn't see Amy in Nocturnal Animals if you think she can't play "cold" or "aloof". Also in "The Master" she played a cold and chilling character. Picked up her 4th Oscar nom for it n'all.

And Amy and Denis said they want to work with each other again.

I actually think Emily Blunt could be in it also. She was going to be in Blade Runner 2049 but was pregnant at the time Denis asked her to do it so she couldn't and was doing a voice over role at the time.

Agree on Amy playing a cold b--tch. Nocturnal Animals is a perfect example that she can play an ice queen. Amy is a five time Oscar nominee. Perhaps she has not played a lot of action/*****y roles. But given her critics acclaim, A-list status, studios and producers would not think she's too "nice" when they think of actresses to play this role.

The role Denis asked Emily for Blade Runner is a minor supporting role. I can't see Emily playing Lady Jessica. She had been in action movies. She can play a touch chick. But she can't play cold. I also don't think her look fits into the description of Lady Jessica. By the way, she does not look good as a redhead.

There are several female roles in Dune. Adams can play Lady Jessica. Emily can play another female role.

 

[green]

Agree on Amy playing a cold b--tch. Nocturnal Animals is a perfect example that she can play an ice queen. Amy is a five time Oscar nominee. Perhaps she has not played a lot of action/*****y roles. But given her critics acclaim, A-list status, studios and producers would not think she's too "nice" when they think of actresses to play this role.

The role Denis asked Emily for Blade Runner is a minor supporting role. I can't see Emily playing Lady Jessica. She had been in action movies. She can play a touch chick. But she can't play cold. I also don't think her look fits into the description of Lady Jessica. By the way, she does not look good as a redhead.

There are several female roles in Dune. Adams can play Lady Jessica. Emily can play another female role.

Im going to strongly disagree with the bolded.
I do agree Amy would be the better Jessica, though once she becomes the Sayyadina for the Fremen I could see Blunt being the better of the two...

I'd be perfectly content with either of them honestly.

 

[FVD]

Could some of the Fremen also be darker in skin tone than those already described as being Middle Eastern in appearance, because I'm starting to get an Idris Elba vibe as Stilgar as of late? It would be a good role for him though.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Update on the movie form Denis. He's getting in pre production mode.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/dune-re...says-director-denis-villeneuve-152802919.html

The press circuit for the highly-anticipated ‘Blade Runner 2049’ kicked off yesterday in Moscow, Russia, and it didn’t take long for attention to turn to director Denis Villeneuve’s next project: his upcoming re-imagining of ‘Dune’ for the big screen.


Speaking at the film’s press conference (via WDSSPR/Sony Pictures Russia), the ‘Arrival’ director confirmed that he is about to start working on his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel, stating that his ‘Dune’ “is not a reboot or a remake at all…but we are just going back to the novel”.
Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ will follow the 1984 adaptation directed by David Lynch, the production controversies surrounding which are very well documented. Although the Canadian director described himself as “a big fan of [Lynch]”, he said that “he wasn’t happy” with the ‘Mulholland Drive’ filmmaker’s take on the sci-fi saga.


He added: “[It] wasn’t the movie I was dreaming of. So I would like to bring to the screen what I felt, the images I saw, when I read the book”. The ‘Dune’ comments also appear to suggest that the ‘Sicario’ and ‘Prisoners’ director is unlikely to helm the currently-untitled 25th James Bond film, which is set to be released in November of 2019, and said to be actor Daniel Craig’s swan song as the character.

 

[green]

Please let this continue happening...

 

[terry78]

Well, he managed to get Blade Runner up and running, no pun intended.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

I don't know if the idea of a Blade Runner sequel came from him or Hollywood just hired him but I hope his vision for Dune is as good as he thinks it is.
Villeneuve may not like Lynch's version but the sets, costumes and actors were at least good.
He said his movie is not a remake but it is or to use rhetorical language it is a new version.

 

[Fallen Angel]

There was talks of a Blade Runner sequel before Ridley went crazy with the Alien prequels pre Prometheus.

 

[FVD]

I hear Sylvia Hoeks in Blade Runner 2049 is a scene stealer in that film. Taking a look at her, I reckon Denis oughta bring her in to play Lady Jessica - and while she is Dutch, she also has those facial features which would serve her Harkonnen heritage quite nicely. And she's the right age too being 34.

And that kid who played Bill in IT (Jaeden Lieberher, that's his name). I was thinking of him whether he could be looked at to play Paul.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Update on the movie form Denis. He's getting in pre production mode.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/dune-re...says-director-denis-villeneuve-152802919.html

Excellent news, really looking forward to seeing what he comes up with.

 

[OutOfBoose]

I love Sylvia so yeah, give her Lady Jessica. The accent isn't an issue for me and never was, unless it's a character defining element. If a terminator can have an Austrian accent to blend in in US, I believe, Harkonnens can have Dutch accent millenniums into the future.

 

[TheVileOne]

Good luck to him, this is going to be a tough one to boil down for mainstream audiences.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

I love Sylvia so yeah, give her Lady Jessica. The accent isn't an issue for me and never was, unless it's a character defining element. If a terminator can have an Austrian accent to blend in in US, I believe, Harkonnens can have Dutch accent millenniums into the future.

It is a character defining element. The reader and Jessica herself doesn't know her lineage before Paul prophetic vision told her so and this happens late in the book. Harkonnen or Jessica can have a Dutch accent but not both and she was not raised on Giedi Prime anyway.