The story is the same with the scene in which Paul spars with Josh Brolin’s House Atreides master-at-arms Gurney Halleck - suddenly the personal defence shields worn by both look like we imagined them in our dreams, rather than our 8-bit nightmares. But again, they look so much cooler than the Lynch iterations that it’s hard to get too upset over a little monster design pilfering. The Engineer-Harkonnens are not the only inclusions to recall space movies past – the new sandworms that maraud across Arrakis’s deserts now resemble giant, mobile Sarlaccs (from 1983’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi). Why is Jason Momoa’s Duncan Idaho, played with such exuberant, chest-bumping, hail-fellow-well-met heartiness? It’s as if Momoa still thinks he is portraying Aquaman from the DC superhero movies - surely the Game of Thrones star hasn’t just been transported in to remind us of the similarities between Dune’s doomed Atreides clan and the Starks of George RR Martin’s popular fantasy saga? What’s that you say? Hopefully, the foetid whiff of subconscious homophobia will go with them. Baron Harkonnen himself we see only a glimpse of in the trailer, for surely that’s a shaven-headed Stellan Skarsgård emerging from some nasty-looking primeval gloop? Skarsgård will have to go some if he’s to hit the heights of pustule-ridden ferocity reached by Kenneth McMillan in the 1984 version - presumably heart plugs (never in the original books) are out this time around. Naturally, Villeneuve has hired Dave Bautista to play Glossu Rabban, the knuckle-dragging nephew of chief baddie Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, for the star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Spectre has become the go-to brute for these musclebound weirdo roles. Life was certainly easier in the 80s, when Lynch marked out the nefarious clan by simply making them all ginger. But what are the Engineers from Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels doing in the movie? Ah, those are the new Harkonnens, the evil, pasty-faced inhabitants of the frightening desert planet of Arrakis, and young Paul’s soon-to-be nemeses. Timothée Chalamet (as House Atreides scion Paul Atreides) looks like the charismatic, sexy keyboard player from some half-remembered 80s new romantic group whose synthy brilliance continues to echo down the decades, while Charlotte Rampling (as the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam) is tantalisingly freaky in a witchy sort of way - that strange face covering making her heavily hooded eyes even more striking than usual. Cine-futurism’s current messiah, courtesy of the brain-teasing Arrival and quietly brilliant Blade Runner 2049, looks to have conjured a reading of Herbert’s masterwork that will draw awestruck gasps, deja vu and double-takes from hardcore fans of the books. While Dune focuses on a number of Sci-Fi staples: space, battle, fighting epic families, harvesting resources of a mysterious far-away planet, so on and so forth, it's also sourced from a 55-year-old book that has a number of themes that still resonate today.Villeneuve’s dark and doom-laden take, quite frankly, looks set to consign Lynch’s sprawling misfire to the dustbin of history. It’s a world that takes its power in details.” “I would not agree to make this adaptation of the book with one single movie,” Villeneuve told VF.
New dune game 2020 movie#
That means the Dune movie scheduled for release on December 18 will only cover the first half of Frank Herbert's epic 1965 novel.
That's right- Dune will be a two-part movie extravaganza.Īccording to another Vanity Fair story offering details behind the upcoming Dune film, director Denis Villeneueve pushed hard for the novel's story to be split into two films, the same strategy taken with the recent adaptation of Stephen King's epic horror novel, IT. Now, though, we know that it's going to be so epic that it won't all fit into one movie. We already knew that Dune was going to be epic. On top of that, there's the hugely-influential source material, and one of the industry's hottest directors attached to direct. I mean, that cast by itself is something to marvel at: Timotheé Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, just to start. The first film, which will star Timotheé Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, and Jason Momoa (among others), is scheduled for release on December 18.īased just on what we know about the upcoming film adaptation of Dune, we were already expecting it to be epic.“I would not agree to make this adaptation of the book with one single movie,” says director Denis Villeneuve.The upcoming film version of Dune, adapted from the 1965 novel, will be the first of a two-part movie adaptation.
0 kommentar(er)
