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Wow. Villeneuve apparently never actually read the novels, did he? He’s gone so far off script, that it isn’t even Dune anymore.
He has earned more than a little lattitude in my opinion.
Don’t care, will never read the books and the movies are amazing so far. So he can write a completely different story for all I care.
Why call it “Dune” if it isn’t Dune, though? Other than just piggybacking his own story off the name brand of someone else’s.
He deviates a bit but generally I didn’t mind some of the changes. I kind of get why some of them were made, for easier digestion for wider audiences. I just don’t really care for how he portrays Chani and Jessica.
Not just “a bit”…he completely rewrote both Chani and Jessica’s characters. He basically reversed their roles, for no other reason than because he fundamentally misunderstood what Paul’s Character was supposed to represent.
It had nothing to do with “adapting” the story to the screen…he literally doesn’t understand Paul’s character, or why Frank Herbert wrote the story the way he did. So, he changed the entire story to match that misunderstanding.
This version may look great…but he butchered the narrative Herbert was trying to achieve. He actually managed to make the David Lynch adaptation look more faithful, by comparison. That’s pretty bad.
Not just “a bit”…he completely rewrote both Chani and Jessica’s characters. He basically reversed their roles
I haven’t watched the trailer, this is supposed to cover Messiah, correct? Can you see how he’s going to deal with Children if he is changing major character motives?
Was disappointed with the tone/direction taken with Paul’s character in the last movie. If the director understands the story himself he’s certainly not doing a great job communicating it to the audience. I can see how he would need to write Messiah a bit differently to match the tone he set, but am struggling to see how he could maintain the story with at least passing accuracy to the major theme of the original.
Don’t think audiences will ever be ready for real authentic dune
Not if every director who tries, refuses to stick to the story. Even the David Lynch version made changes because there were technical limitations to what he could show onscreen. But, that isn’t the case anymore.
There’s no real excuse for making these kinds of changes, except thinking that your story is better than the original. And if that’s the case, then write your own story, and don’t call it “Dune”.
As far as I’m concerned, this is just another form of plagiarism. He’s using the Dune name recognition to sell tickets to a completely different movie.
