Legendary has acquired the Film and TV rights for Dune
 

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-fr...on-1201858221/

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

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.

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/de...es-1201929280/

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 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.

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.