Lengendary Entertainment to take a crack at Dune

[Rev. Rye]

This has me pretty stoked.

I've loved sci-fi all my life.  I read Dune when I was about 14 yrs old, and saw the David Lynch film in the theater when I was in high school.  Lynch's movie is not well regarded, but I liked it a lot and still watch it once a year or so.

In the 1970's Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean-French director, spent several years attempting to do the film.  It's rumored that Orson Welles would have played Baron Harkonnen.  The film was ultimately abandoned when Jodorowsky was unable to get funding.  You can still find concept art done by HR Giger out on the net.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/dune-r...201998001/

Legendary closed a deal with the Frank Herbert estate last Thanksgiving for his iconic novel, granting the studio rights to not only films, but also TV projects on the sci-fi property

“Arrival” and “Sicario” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve is directing the movie.

Legendary has tapped veteran scribe Eric Roth to write the “Dune” reboot.

Best known for his work on Oscar fare such as “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Munich,” and “Forrest Gump,” which earned Roth his only Academy Award, this movie would mark Roth’s first foray into the world of science fiction.

 About damn time someone else did a take. It's kind of shocking to have to say the best version so far was the SciFi TV miniseries:





Admittedly, the shock mainly comes from the fact that SciFi has become Syfy and the DVD is long out of print because having something legitimately good connected to them just hurts the brand name.