Dune

Release date: 18 December 2020 (UK)

Director: Denis Villeneuve

 

Synopsis

Paul Atreides leads nomadic tribes in a battle to control the desert planet Arrakis.

 

Cast

Rebecca Ferguson - Lady Jessica

Timothee Chalamet - Paul Atreides

Jason Momoa - Duncan Idaho

Zendaya - Chani

Dave Batista - Glossu 'Beast' Rabban

Josh Brolin - Gurney Halleck

Oscar Isaac - Duke Leto Atreides

Stellan Skarsgaard - Baron Harkonnen

Javier Bardem - Stilgar

Charlotte Rampling - Reverend Mother Mohiam

David Dastmalchian - Piter De Vries

Villeneuve's involvement means I'm in, I'm not sure how interested I would be without him.

1 minute ago, jkjk said:

Villeneuve's involvement means I'm in, I'm not sure how interested I would be without him.

 

I'm cautiously optimistic. As much as Dune is seemingly a cursed idol at this point, Villeneuve is a master of that kind of slow revelation, and in Blade Runner 2049, of world building without blatantly explaining everything in it. And of course, it doesn't hurt that it's an absolutely stellar cast.

5 minutes ago, Michael* said:

I'm cautiously optimistic. As much as Dune is seemingly a cursed idol at this point, Villeneuve is a master of that kind of slow revelation, and in Blade Runner 2049, of world building without blatantly explaining everything in it. And of course, it doesn't hurt that it's an absolutely stellar cast.

 

I think 2049 is part of the reason for my optimism, and I completely agree about the cast.

 

Dune is an upcoming 2020 epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts and Villeneuve. It is an international co-production of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Hungary, and it is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, and will cover roughly the first half of the book.

Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista,
Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem

 

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/behold-dune-an-exclusive-look-at-timothee-chalamet-zendaya-oscar-isaac

Welp I'm out on this movie after having high hopes.

 

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/04/14/sharon-duncan-brewster-confirmed-as-race-and-gender-swapped-liet-kynes-in-dune-film-heavily-implies-film-will-be-woke/

22 hours ago, Stromboli1 said:

Welp I'm out on this movie after having high hopes.

 

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/04/14/sharon-duncan-brewster-confirmed-as-race-and-gender-swapped-liet-kynes-in-dune-film-heavily-implies-film-will-be-woke/

 

Another one... Hollywood is dumb. After Terminator Woke Fate, Woke-busters, Woke's Angels and many others, this movie will flop (and rightly so).

13 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

Another one... Hollywood is dumb. After Terminator Woke Fate, Woke-busters, Woke's Angels and many others, this movie will flop (and rightly so).

 

I don't think the Dune movies will flop, but they won't make as much as they should have.

I heard on a livestream that a guy said he has read the Dune script and it isn't Woke.

 

Spoiler

He speculated that the article about the blurbs about wokeness was put out on purpose to deflect that the savior is a white male. Take it for what it's worth.

 

Put in spoiler cause I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone.

Villeneuve's work doesn't really sell to the masses so if they turn any kind of profit, they'll have had a result. I would anticipate the reception being very similar to that of Blade Runner 2049, people who are interested in it agree that it's brilliant, there's at least one breakout performance and the box office takings barely cover the production and marketing.

 

I should probably add that I'm still fairly iffy on whether it's possible to adapt the property into an engaging film. It would need either stark changes to be made to the source material or have to rely on some handholding, perhaps quite a lot of handholding if "one gender swapped character = bad because woke" is the most sophisticated take some journalists can manage on the subject.

First official trailer is upon us.

 

the lead has an incredibly punchable face

1 hour ago, Cult Icon said:

the lead has an incredibly punchable face

 

Robert Pattinson certainly thought so in The King last year. 

Sounds like Dune is being postponed until October 2021, which directly conflicts with another major Warners tentpole in The Batman. So perhaps expect a release date shift for that too.