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Dune loses a director, gains possibilities
Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Director Peter Berg has exited the Dune remake happening with Paramount Pictures. Now the studio is looking for someone to replace the $175 million dollar-budgeted film and they've got two possible candidates: District 9's Neill Blomkamp and The Descent's Neil Marshall.
Berg's departure takes away considerable momentum with the project as now the studio has to find someone who knows Frank Herbert's novel and remains true to the source material but also will infuse their own brand of filmmaking to give the sci-fi story elements of action and political drama. The Dune novel is set 10,000 years into our future and takes place almost entirely on a sand-swept planet where giant sandworms reign. Two great houses are fighting over who controls the spice melange, a highly coveted item that extends life, turns your eyes blue and will awaken a prophecized leader of humanity that everyone in the universe wants to control. David Lynch was the first to make a Dune adaptation back in 1984, and while it's highly imaginative visuals have made it a cult classic, it's also not the true Dune movie that coulda/shoulda been.
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Well, I sure as shit hope it's not Neil Marshall. Not that I really have anything against him. I just don't care for his movies.