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[bzarcher]

Oooooooooh.

Children of Dune is coming to Scifi in March....

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[neversremedy.livejournal.com]

::drools::

[illian.livejournal.com]

You just saw that? You obviously haven't been watching Taken on SciFi. =)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Haven't been letting myself watch TV during studying.

[remliel.livejournal.com]

::SCREAMS!::

Those FOOLS! I hope they don't screw it up like they did to DUNE.

God, Paul was turned into such a GIMP.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I thought the Scifi version from two years ago wasn't -so- bad.

[remliel.livejournal.com]

Of course not...
It was -WORSE-.

They turned Paul into Shinji Ikari. >_>

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Geez. :D Book or nothing for you, huh?

[remliel.livejournal.com]

No... The OLDER one done by De Laurentis or whatever his name was much better. Hell, it has PATRICK STEWART in it as GURNEY HALLECK! It is teh 0wnz0r!

[dklegman.livejournal.com]

Ever read about Alexandro Jodorowsky's proposed (insane) treatment of Dune from the 1970s?

It had no notions of keeping the story intact; in the AJ Dune, Leto would have been castrated in a bullfight, and Jessica conceived Paul with a drop of Leto's blood. There was also something about the emperor living on a planet of gold with an identical robot clone, and big reality-altering shafts of light emanating from Arrakis causing it to turn into some wandering, collective-mind world.

Chunks of this found their way into Jodorowsky's later Metabarons comic, safe from meddling with the Dune franchise.

For my part, I find the Lynch Dune amusing, at least. The costuming and scenery were generally pretty good, although the Sardaukar looked cooler in the Miniseries (as long as you got past the big poofy chef-hat-things). Sardaukar in the Lynch Dune looked like angry Devo fans or something.

I could go on and on. ;-)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Dino De Laurentis? Ahhh. I thought you were implying you didn't like Paul in that one, either. (Though I'll admit that Stewart was a -perfect- Gurney. Even if I thought the 'weirding modules' were a tad hokey.)

[ryon.livejournal.com]

Here here for the old dune. Although I have never seen the "ultra-special-long" version that you can only watch if you spend the night in a hotel after an RPG convention.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I think that might be on DVD, too, at this point...