# If Dune must be made, should it not be a TV show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dune-must-be-made-should-it-not-be-a-tv-show/778758 "2017-02-01T17:32:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dune-must-be-made-should-it-not-be-a-tv-show/778758/21 "2017-02-02T15:10:17Z")
'Still waiting for Jodorowsky’s version, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dune-must-be-made-should-it-not-be-a-tv-show/778758/22 "2019-02-17T03:21:41Z")
I never read the books but i’ve watched the 1984 movie quite a few times and have YouTubed several channels covering the Dune universe quite extensively. The new movies has a November 2020 release date and an [awesome](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/) cast. I hope it lives up to expectations. ---
**Author:** ![Stowed\_Bob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stowed_bob/32/3312_2.png) [@Stowed\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stowed_Bob)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dune-must-be-made-should-it-not-be-a-tv-show/778758/23 "2019-02-17T12:03:39Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I don’t recall Herbert going to much detail about everything that occurred during the Butlerian Jihad but it was the period (and I’d assume the major purpose of the BJ) when “Thinking Machines” were abandoned. > > CMC fnord! Yeah, it is pretty vague. I always liked the Encyclopedia of Dune’s take on the events as the hospital-administrating AI was randomly aborting babies to control the human population on one of the planets, likely others following suit. When people found out, they freaked out, and then instigated the jihad where they tolerated no machines more complex than a zip gun. It was only after it was all over that they came to regret the fanatic destruction of technology. And the thing to keep in mind is that they had technologically recovered, enough to fly between the stars, but were skirting allowing machines to compute by using humans (mentats, guild navigators) in those roles with varying success. Never mind that as much as they condemned and loathed the Tleilaxu, who had been spared the Jihad, the Empire all hungrily bought up their genetically engineered delicacies and advanced prosthetics. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dune-must-be-made-should-it-not-be-a-tv-show/778758/24 "2019-02-17T15:14:32Z")
> [@Bruce\_Wayne](#): > > I never read the books but i’ve watched the 1984 movie quite a few times and have YouTubed several channels covering the Dune universe quite extensively. The new movies has a November 2020 release date and an [awesome](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/) cast. I hope it lives up to expectations. Wow, no lie. That’s good casting, I actually just got goosebumps. Please don’t suck. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dune-must-be-made-should-it-not-be-a-tv-show/778758/25 "2019-02-17T16:52:19Z")
if I remember the tv version of the movie which had like a 20 minute history lesson prolouge it said that the computers had enslaved the human race to the point people didn’t know how to read or write and weren’t allowed to and were basically living in an ancient egypitan style slave society for several hundred if not thousands of years until the revolt its why they knew somewhat of the old history snd religions but didn’t really understand them like in the book paul reads about hitler in a history lesson and tries to decide if killing 6 million people in a war is admirable or not but all the nuances and specifics are lost …… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-dune-must-be-made-should-it-not-be-a-tv-show/778758.md?page=1)