It would have to be a series of films i think. Exploring the gulf between his reputation as a military comander and that of a despot who; caused the deaths of 6 million, reintroduce slavery, hereditory monarchy, property cinfiscation, rank nepotism while creating new laws and a method of administration in France that has stood the year of time. We’ll that’s going to have to be a film and a half.
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Yes, unusually for him, Christopher Walken was disappointing. I didn’t even recognise Austin Butler as the young Harkonnen guy. Quite the transformation from Elvis.
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Uh huh
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Live at the Apollo.
Wank.
24 carat wank.
WANK!
Unadulterated, weapons grade WANK
Dune Part Two at the cinema. Epic. What with the reclining seat and a bag of Minstrels, top night.
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Quite enjoyed it, although I can’t watch David Threlfall without imagining him as Frank Gallagher in Shameless 
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Pretty much ditto - epic film, in all senses: never had three hours in a cinema pass so fast!
Already gagging for the next instalment - hopefully this will be successful enough that all 6 books get their own movie
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If all six books were any good that would be a fine aspiration.
But they aren’t After book 3 they are shit.
They doesn’t stop the film makers and scriptwriters taking it in their own direction and making decent films though.
I thought the same until I re-read them all recently.
Book 6 is much better than I remembered but you do have to wade through 4 & 5 for it to make much sense.
There you go, confusing your opinion with fact, again…
But never mind, if no-one likes those three, there’s a huge slew of prequels and side-quests and christnose what else to choose from. And yes, a good film maker can spin a web of gold from almost any dross.
Of course it is my opinion but it is a widely held opinion by people who have read the books.
How can a statement of whether a book is any good or not be anything other than an opinion?
Have you read them? What do you think?
I’ve an awful sense of déjà vu concerning you and logical fallacies…
My opinion is obvious from my previous statement: I like what’s been done with the first book, and want to see as much as possible of Herbert’s stories tackled by the same team. I’d even buy in to some of the prequel stuff.
There’s so much potential in what Herbert wrote that to see journalists arguing that future films shoud stick to a more conventional narrative is just downright sad - and this is not the only one doing so. Personally I hope Villeneuve won’t get carried-away by the adulation and go-on to “fix” any remaining stories’ “flaws” as he sees them…
Thing is, this is science fiction - it creates worlds where anything is implicitly possible - it should be strange, disorientatingly alien and challenging. Herbert is celebrated exactly because he did not birth mere scripts for me-too space operas. If Villeneuve isn’t up for the job, someone else must surely be?
Starting watching that last night. Fell asleep.