RE: Lengendary Entertainment to take a crack at Dune
April 7, 2017 at 9:29 am
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2017 at 9:29 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 6, 2017 at 5:47 pm)Alex K Wrote:(April 6, 2017 at 5:33 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I was thinking specifically of ornithoppers. They sound like some strange Leonardo DaVinci flying contraption. Plus they fight with swords and the teeth of sandworms.
The Butlerian jihad and the subsequent banning of thinking machines render the whole world oddly anachronistic. That's why I called it steampunk-like although that doesn't quite capture it ...
IMHO the prequels really butchered that one - although shifting the moral roles of the Atreides and the Harkonnens was an interesting twist.
(April 6, 2017 at 9:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I expect to be disappointed.
The only saving grace was having Sting.
