Amph "The Sleeper Has Awakened" - DUNE DISCUSSION-

No confirmation that he's going to be in it, but with Lady Fenring confirmed, I'd be hard pressed to imagine he wouldn't be.

 

Now a Major Motion Picture banner on the book hahah, which print edition is that because it's probably talking about the Lynch version unless they put out a new print with that banner again.

 

Yeah, that's a recent release of the book that hit shelves around the time the movie did last year.

 

NOW it's a major motion picture.

And also anytime between 1984 and now.

But also NOW!!!!

 

Well, by this point, we should all be well informed that the past doesn't matter.

 

The past is dead. NOW.

 

ArtStation - DUNE Spice Wars - House Atreides & House Harkonnen Councillors, Pierre Armal Le
"Councillors illustrations for the factions House Atreides and House Harkonnen, along with some early design research It was awesome to design and render these characters, I hope that our designs do them justice!
Art direction and retakes by art director Jeremy Vitry."

 

A pleasant 4X experience already, by the way.

 

ArtStation - DUNE Spice Wars - Fremen & Smugglers Councillors, Pierre Armal Le
"Councillors illustrations for the factions Fremen and Smugglers, along with some early design research It was awesome to design and render these characters, I hope that our designs do them justice!
Many thanks to Jeremy Vitry for the retakes and direction!"

 

A bit late but I would like to ad that the use of light and what kind of light used in the movie could also be a factor regarding the coldness.

 

I thought of posting that the other day, but didn't lol

 

ArtStation - DUNE
"I'm super excited for Dune! But I imagine the world a little differently than the newest theatrical version so I want to do some Dune designs of my own."


Duke Leto Atreides


Lady Jessica


Thufir Hawat


Duncan Idaho


Paul Atreides


Maud'Dib


Stilgar


The Sardaukar


Baron Harkonnen

 

Disagree and disagree.

But that's just me.

 

Seems like Dune: The Siterhood is not going to be among the victims of the Discovery/WB merger, thankfully, and is currently casting:

https://deadline.com/2022/08/hbo-ma...cquisitions-casting-international-1235091596/

 

If this holds true, then this is going to be set WAY earlier in the timeline than I assumed it would be.

 

Why would anyone want to watch that?

 

Because the early days of the Bene Gesserit and their formation in the aftermath of the Butlerian Jihad sounds like it has much more potential for interesting, different ideas than a direct prequel that has to feed directly into the film and get us right to square one of what we've already seen?

 

I think that series sounds interesting.

 

The Bene Gesserit being super intellectual/philosophical/ultra-calculating types (I love their pithy quotes), this show would need some absolutely brilliant writers to pull off.

 

Honestly I'm just hoping for Pain Box scenes at least 5 times a season.

 

I'm already getting horrible KJA vibes about the potential setting/writing

 

That is definitely a very legitimate concern, but given the quality of the movie I am (so far) willing to be optimistic in regards to this show and hope for something that skews closer to the film's quality while utilizing a setting that.... hasn't been explored to its, shall we say, best potential, on the page.

Fingers crossed that it does indeed deliver.

 

There's a very quick test on a Bene Gesserit show's worth. Here, we have an order that planned for thousands of years and manipulated galactic history in many ways, from aristocratic marriages to "grey eminence" governing to the point of creating entire religions (the Fremen religion is a Bene Gesserit construct...), in order to prepare for the advent of a superbeing under their control who would give them the ability to know the future. The Bene Gesserit are villains, of the thinking and very patient but absolutely power-hungry kind.