Peter Berg Confirmed for Dune Remake
Looks like those rumours we heard a few months ago about another Dune movie weren’t just hearsay after all. According to the MTV Movies Blog, director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Rundown, The Kingdom) revealed in a recent interview that he has officially signed on to helm the project, and that the only thing holding it back right now is the writer’s strike.
Once the strike is settled, they hope to get a script knocked out as soon as possible and then move forward on it. Until that happens, there will probably be little else to say on the matter, but rest assured, we are indeed getting the third adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi novel at some point in the near future. Berg referred to the scale of the movie as being “big big big”.
While I’m curious to see another take on this classic story, I still have a hard time envisioning Dune as a big blockbuster film. It seems like it was tailor-made to be an art-house production from the start (well, as long as you’re concerned with being true to the source material, at any rate). But when you consider the number of follow-up books written by Frank Herbert, plus the prequels written by his son Brian and sci-fi author Kevin J. Anderson, it’s clear that there is a pretty massive movie franchise here just waiting to be converted into cold, hard cash. Can Peter Berg make it happen? I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.
Comments (6)
It would be interesting to see it re-done. I watched the David Lynch one years ago, but I was falling asleep during it.
Posted by joe on December 26th, 2007I dunno, between the movie and the series I think Dune should be left alone. Why can’t they make a movie of one of the hundred good sci-fi/fantasy books that have yet to be adapted.
Posted by Ryan on May 21st, 2008I would love to see a remake of dune. The only problem is that it suits far better to a developing TV series plot, than it does to an all over in 3hrs plot!
Posted by cocko on May 25th, 2008The complexity of the politics, relationships, and religion are all critical to the intrigue of Dune, but as Lynch learned, condensing the complexity makes the story confusing, and above most inexperienced Sci Fi viewers.
Posted by cocko on May 25th, 2008While i grew up with Lynch’s version, my wife says she understands the mini series version much better.
perhaps the new Dune makers should learn from this if they want to become the great maker! Fulfill Dune’s destiny, and produce a complete story.
Posted by cocko on May 25th, 2008Love to see dune remake, but would like to see Omnius prequels first. And if we’re talking about books to film, how about Ender’s Game?
Posted by JD Shipley on June 8th, 2008Leave a Reply