Dune - Official Main Trailer
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Surprised at this but hopefully it works out.Looks like the series is still in the works
‘Dune’ HBO Max Series Enlists Diane Ademu-John as New Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)
The "Dune" television series prequel at HBO Max has found its new showrunner.variety.com
no jokes allowedPeople complaining about the humour giving off big
Energy.
i want characters to be humourless automata that function only to deliver exposition
/s
Having never read the books and only saw the old shitty movie once, that trailer was straight fire.
In a surprising turn of events House Atreides is given the control of the planet Arrakis by the Empreror. Arrakis is a desert planet and the only place where the Spice, the most valuable item in the universe, is found. The planet has been under the ruthless control of House Harkonnen (Atreides main rivals) for decades, so the Emperor's decisionand motives are hard to understand.
Duke Atreides is in no way convince that the Harkonnen will give up the control of the Spice and smells a trap, but he can't refuse the Emperor order so he accept his new charge and moves to Arrakis with his family.
Looks like the series is still in the works
‘Dune’ HBO Max Series Enlists Diane Ademu-John as New Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)
The "Dune" television series prequel at HBO Max has found its new showrunner.
Brilliant!
And then just complete shit. I hope their name is attached only for attribution and they have no influence on the production. They've produced nothing but fucking rubbish.
Not a fan of the Lynch version of dune but this extended intro is kind of a good non spoiler intro for newbies.
I can't argue that that scene was pretty lame as shown.
It did come off as some by the numbers Hollywood blockbuster and not something organic or even well done.
Duncan seems like a really hard character to pull off in general. For the director and the actor. That is probably true for this movie as well.
I am just glad he is doing it with his own vision. Truly looks like something unique. This is the kind of shit I want to see and I am there day 1.
Even if they swing and miss, at least they are going big.
There's a lot more politics involved. It is much closer to something like GOT than it is Avatar.
Major book/movie spoilers:
Atreides royal family is assigned stewardship of Dune/spice production as previous royal family who had stewardship wasn't extracting enough spice, said previous faimly conspires with emperor to assinate leader/duke of Atreides by convincing emperor that he is too ambitious and well liked, son of the duke works with native Dune tribes to elimate previous stewards and overthrow galactic emperor, becoming emperor himself. Paul himself has multidimensional/different futures foresight and is forced into becoming as bad/worse than the previous emperor because there are no better options. I don't think this movie will cover all that but Paul isn't really a typical hero/protagonist and isn't necessarily motivated by "doing good" but moreso doing the least bad path even though it's terrible and involves him becoming a religious tyrant.
Like there's a reason people say it's a hard source material to adapt, the first book is like 900 pages with a lot of fairly complicated political intrigue and then of course you throw in multidimensional foresight (tbh the MCU probably has made this concept more palatable in recent years). And then the second book is a pretty wild departure from the first (it isn't really given the context of the first book, but it's sort of a dramatic departure as far as what a "typical mainstream audience" might expect from characters story arcs). I haven't read the third book.
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Can we please stop using this lame generic marketing formula for trailers
Hope the movie is good, didn't like the marketing for BR2049 but I loved the movie. In Denis we trust
Hope the movie is good, didn't like the marketing for BR2049 but I loved the movie. In Denis we trust
I'm super duper excited for this. When it was first announced I realized I never actually ended up finishing the novel so I picked it up again (and with the help of the audiobook tbh) and finished it. Loved it and can't wait for this. In Denis we trust.
Lol literal moments from each other.
I wasn't feeling the trailers up till now (esp. the one with the sad Pink Floyd song), but this looks really good.
I do get people wanting this but honestly I don't see it happening and it makes sense that way. The vast majority of Dune (literally everything except for the very start before the Atreides move from Caladan, and a few parts of the Harkonnens on Giedi Prime) takes place on Arrakis, which is a very harsh planet dominated by the desert. It was never really ever going to be that colourful. Even for all of Lynch's design choices with his adaptation, it was pretty muted, the same for the Syfy series. Any of the more visually colourful or vivid scenes (I'm mainly thinking of what's probably my favourite section in Dune, the dinner "party" scene) I'm guessing are being kept away for now.
‘Dune’ Producer Legendary Entertainment Exploring Sale, Possible Merger (EXCLUSIVE)
Legendary Entertainment is exploring a possible sale or merger.
variety.com
Hopefully this is only a good thing. I have worries but it seems like those interested are interested because they want to put money into the franchises held by Legendary.
the high-bitrate version of the trailer is up on HD-trailers.net. It's 243MBs.
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Just noticed this quote:Looks like the series is still in the works
‘Dune’ HBO Max Series Enlists Diane Ademu-John as New Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)
The "Dune" television series prequel at HBO Max has found its new showrunner.
Looks like the series is still in the works
‘Dune’ HBO Max Series Enlists Diane Ademu-John as New Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)
The "Dune" television series prequel at HBO Max has found its new showrunner.
I was sure the Sisterhood series was dead. Seems like this is a sign that WB is feeling pretty good about Dune. Also, that they're relationship with Legendary has improved some.
People complaining about the humour giving off big
Energy.
This was me while watching the trailer - not because of the humor, but so I could see what the hell was going on.
Upon a second rewatch, I have to admit, it really is a poor trailer. So I can sympathise with non-book readers who think the movie looks derivative. But ultimately WB feels this is the way to get butts in seats, specifically framing the trailer around Paul's journey to another planet. They could just as easily cut the trailer in a more slowburn way and reveal some trippy aspects of the story, but a lot of money is riding on this movie so they go action packed and easily digestible stakes.
Warning high bit rate jokes inside for you crusty ass mother fuckers
Don't know a thing about the books, so I watched this trailer blind and really enjoyed what I saw. Looking forward to the film, thought unfortunately I don't think the theatres will be open for it here.
It's gonna be Kanye.
Lol, no.
It's fantastically narrated. I just got done with it the other month.
they didn't spoil anything. Those images don't mean anything out of context. Even in context it's not the spoiler you think it is.
I only ever saw the SciFi mini-series but don't really remember it too well. This looks awesome despite not really knowing what's going on. I hope I can see this in theaters.