Legendary has acquired the Film and TV rights for Dune

[TigerClaw]

Looks like Legendary has acquired the Film and TV rights of the novel Dune, There was a film adaption of Dune back in 1984 from director David Lynch, and then there was also a Miniseries adaption back in 2000, I'm curious what they will do with this, I remember seeing the 1984 movie on cable tv back in the days.
https://deadline.com/2016/11/dune-frank-herbert-sci-fi-novel-legendary-rights-acquisition-1201858221/

[snake]

Hype. Huuuuuge Dune fan. They BETTER do it justice.

[ProactiveMan]

My head exploded into a thousand pieces when I saw the David Lynch version, so they'll have to try really hard to make another adaptation that has the same impact. I know that movie's got a lot of problems, but it's so crazy that it verges on brilliance.

[NinjaPug]

Looks like they're going after Denis Villeneuve to direct. Big fan of this guy plus he's been wanting to adapt Dune for years. Hope this ends up happening.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/denis-villeneuve-dune-reboot-legendary-pictures-1201929280/

[Andrew NDB]

Huge Dune fan. Even of the new novels.

I like Dennis' work but it's near impossible for me to get excited about a third adaptation of the first book. We came so close to getting to "God Emperor of Dune" (my favorite Dune novel) on Sci-Fi last time around... now right back to Paul and Chani again.

I don't know why they wouldn't look for a way to affordably do Dune on HBO, ala Game of Thrones. It lends itself perfectly to that format. Could do a book a season and still get 7 or 8 seasons out of it, more if you mine the prequels.

[NinjaPug]

I agree that this property is better suited as a TV series. I know the plan is to tie in television content with the movies like Sony is doing with The Dark Tower assuming the first movie is successful.

[Andrew NDB]

I agree that this property is better suited as a TV series. I know the plan is to tie in television content with the movies like Sony is doing with The Dark Tower assuming the first movie is successful.

That's too many "ifs." I suspect we'll get another Dune movie that's only moderately successful and that'll be that. Again.

[snake]

Huge Dune fan. Even of the new novels.

I like Dennis' work but it's near impossible for me to get excited about a third adaptation of the first book. We came so close to getting to "God Emperor of Dune" (my favorite Dune novel) on Sci-Fi last time around... now right back to Paul and Chani again.

I don't know why they wouldn't look for a way to affordably do Dune on HBO, ala Game of Thrones. It lends itself perfectly to that format. Could do a book a season and still get 7 or 8 seasons out of it, more if you mine the prequels.

I'm excited because this is pretty much the first chance for Dune to be shown as a visually stunning epic. I have a feeling we won't get up to God Emperor though. It's probably seen as too weird to be marketable.