There was an attempt recently but it was aborted. The concept art looked a touch dodgy too me (pink tiger strips on spaceships) so I'm kinda glad it never became anything.
Wish someone would do a full scale remake though (LotR style big)
Wish someone would do a full scale remake though (LotR style big)
Seriously, "weirding modules"...?
I went on to read all the Frank Herbert written Dune books and I still like the Sci-Fi series.
There was very little CGI in the movie. Seriously real sets and some absolutely massive and impressive ones at that. All of the interiors of the palaces on Arrakis? Wow.
The backdrops weren't CGI either, nor were they Matte paintings. They used Translights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translight which are basically gigantic sheets of plastic that hang behind the sets meaning the actors actually got to stand on real sets and actually see the world around them and I think it showed in the quality of the acting. Actors don't act well when they aren't able to immerse themselves in the world they are pretending to be in. Watch the LOTR making-of documentary where Andy Serkis explains how he basically inserted himself into parts of filming that Peter Jackson didn't think a Voice/Motion-Cap actor needed to be involved in (not that Jackson objected, he embraced the ideas, but just didn't realize it at first).
Speaking of the acting, I hear a lot of people complain about Alec Newman, calling his character "wooden". Hard tasks need hard ways and hard ways need hard people. I think he nailed it.
[0] Though, you'd most def have to put facemasks on those stillsuits!
The miniseries were actually really good. Tempted to say excellent - I read the books first then saw the mini-series.
Thats not what I was talking about though...those miniseries are like 2000 or 2003ish. There was a recent attempt (2012?) to launch into this again...failed...and never made it past concept (see my earlier reference to pink tiger strip spacecraft) - thats the one I was talking about. Wasn't a complete failure though...they documented the process & I gather the docu was decent. Haven't watched that docu.
That sounds like you're talking about an earlier aborted adaption, before the Lynch movie. There was an (amazing) documentary about it last year.
"Jodorowsky's Dune" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
>before the Lynch movie
Lynch - 1984
>"Jodorowsky's Dune"
2013
So not before. But yes thats the one I mean with the pink tiger strips.
The miniseries in between those two was actually pretty damn good imo. Capture the essence well. Wish they had kept going.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28film%29#Early_attempts