
Omphalos wrote:What? Nailing Gurney?
SandChigger wrote:Hmm.
I don't know....
Am I like the only one doesn't get excited about this kind of "ooh ooh, XXX should play YYY!" speculation?
(Just wondering. I mean, I read everyone's lists and think, "OK, cool, whatever" and move on, but I can't really get that excited about it all. Oh well, just me, I guess.)
Baron Harkonnen - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV - Ciaran Hinds
SandChigger wrote:I guess part of my problem is I just don't associate faces and names for a lot of the newer people.
Omphalos' above is the first one I think I've known about half.
(Recognize Posthlewaite name but get no face; wouldn't know Trejo, Piven, Dawson to McShane if I crawled over and bit them. sigh)
Liege-Killer wrote:Well Omph, I meant: how would you cast the actors listed on the above poster? But your list works too, although it also has several names I don't know.Baron Harkonnen - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV - Ciaran Hinds
Brilliant choices!
I can't give out a lot of information because they are still building the movie from the ground up. What I can tell you is that "we" haven't hired anyone to do the script. That'll be up to the production studio.
The budget ...er ...I wish I could tell you! But I can't give numbers. Watch IMDB for information that'll probably be coming soon.
Kevin and Brian are co-producers, yes, just as it says in the Variety article.
Co-Producer Defined: A Co-producer is typically a Line Producer who has also performed a substantial portion of the creative producing function. Alternatively, they may be the lead Producer from another production company that is co-producing the film, or a partner or corporate officer from the production entity producing the film. In rare cases, a Co-producer may also be the person who optioned, developed or packaged the project. In all instances, Co-producers are subordinate to the Producer. (Emphasis in original).
What I can tell you is that "we" haven't hired anyone to do the script. That'll be up to the production studio.
*snip*
In all instances, Co-producers are subordinate to the Producer
GamePlayer wrote:I mean, is anyone gonna care Norma is mentioned if the movie sucks soiled ass?
GamePlayer wrote:And how is that any different from the sound technology/Weirding Modules in Lynch's Dune (1984)? Or the Elves being at Helms Deep in Jackson's The Two Towers? Whether the Dune novel were somehow directly translated to the screen unmodified or was a macabre adaptation with only the barest resemblance to the original, by far the majority of people who saw it would forever relate Dune to the movie and wouldn't give a shit whether it was faithful or not. The larger movie-going public are not readers and could care less. You're talking human nature here, which is not something any of us can do anything about.
GamePlayer wrote:IMO, this is raging fanboy fervor and no different than Warsies crying over Darth Vader's "small hands" or Ringer laments of Bombadil! Bombadil! It's the absolute worst of nitpicking minutiae at the expense of all the factors that truly matter. In all likelihood, Berg ain't gonna give KJA/BH the time of day. They can be counted on to shit on any writers, including their own. That's the way Hollywood works.
GamePlayer wrote:I still fail to see how any prequel mentions in a new Dune film adaptation are even legally possible. If Paramount can't even mention events of Deep Space Nine in Star Trek First Contact due to property rights (owned by themselves through a subsidiary), then I don't see where the heck all this fear of prequel crap is coming from.
GamePlayer wrote:Berg and Misher's priorities will be if there's a notable lack of sex scenes and enough explosions to appeal to the young male film-going market. The casting will be whether Paul is enough of a potential sex symbol to get more young female asses in theatre seats and not whether such an actor can actually play and look the part. The script will be examined to see how they can emphasize it's appeal to an increasingly environmentalist movie-going public.
GamePlayer wrote:This is the reality of what need be feared. This has gone beyond the microcosm of KJA/BH and the Dune bubble. Here, in the far more dangerous deep desert of movie making, there be a row of sandworms ready to drop their load upon this new Dune adaptation. Our only hope is a kwisatch haderach to somehow survive and create the world we want
As for the legalities, no prequel rights have been sold (or at least, no one has reported it). The idea is preposterous that the HLP would throw away rights to one or more prequel books along with the Dune rights just so KJA could suggest (with no guarantee) that the screenwriters pretty please mention Norma in the script.
Omphalos wrote:He owns nothing from original Dune. But they have given him a title. Why? That coupled with the fact that he is an insidious little prick worries me.
SandChigger wrote:Omphalos wrote:He owns nothing from original Dune. But they have given him a title. Why? That coupled with the fact that he is an insidious little prick worries me.
Exactly. Why is he a co-producer on a movie of Dune?
Could it be something as simple as him wanting another label, something more to pad his resumé with, to crow about and receive fanboy praise over?
Robspierre wrote:Personally I hope they get an executive with a cocaine habit who who wants ot make a drug movie![]()
Rob
Omphalos wrote:Robspierre wrote:Personally I hope they get an executive with a cocaine habit who who wants ot make a drug movie![]()
Rob
Kind of like Traffic for spice, huh?
SandChigger wrote:Hey! You never returned the contract papers on use of that blinkey!
That's stil MY property dammit!![]()
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Kidding!
SandChigger wrote:Has anyone found ANY mention of ONE GOOD REASON why Kevin's name is associated with this new movie at all?
SandChigger wrote:(Ah, blinkeys, yes, haven't forgotten. Anyone know of a site with good (motion/animated) pics of cellular division?)
SandChigger wrote:No, this is a special project.
It's a secret.
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