I predict that this will be a commercial failure and disliked by the average moviegoer. But hardcore fans and movie nerds will probably gobble it up. So pretty much exactly like Blade Runner 2049.
I always thought that the shields were a great solution to allow high tech in-world but still require swords and such in battle. The shields don’t so much repel as absorb energy. The higher the kinetic energy, the higher the absorption. That leads to the uselessness of kinetic weapons like guns, the fighting style that emphasizes moves that allow shield penetration (which puzzles the Fremen the first time they see Paul fight), and the negation of energy weapons (they have so much energy, it is absorbed and creates a nuclear-like explosion). Given that such shield is not possible according to physics (much like FTL travel), the logic within universe is a pretty good writer’s solution to the world he wanted to create.
For Feyd Rautha, how about Ansel Elgort? In the same age range as Chalamet and I can see him as a sneering princeling.
You mean like these guys? Because they were obviously their inspiration.
I happen to think that the costuming was the best part of the 2003 series.
How about Taron Egerton? He’s a smug little bastard, and he has action-movie cred.
I thought of him, but he’s a little outside the age range and frankly, his screen presence is probably too sympathetic. Elgort comes across as a bit of an SOB even when he’s playing a sympathetic character.
Yeah, I didn’t really picture the Sardurkar as Swiss pikemen. Maybe as their dress uniforms or something. As a sort of cross between elite shock troops and a sort of Praetorian guard, I’d picture them wearing more utilitarian battle gear on Arakis. Closer to the leather gimp outfits and MOPP gear from the David Lynch film.
James Ellroy’s novels should be the new GOT
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Herbert’s characters describe them as brutally effective killers, honed by what they perceived to be as the toughest environment in the Galaxy, yet decadent, arrogant, and past their prime. Kind of like the older British colonial troops dominated by elites like Gurkhas, or other elites like the SAS/SBS. Though I don’t think those units ever believed they were naturally invincible, like the Sardaukar did. Herbert may have disagreed. Really, their mindset, training, arrogance, and blindness remind me most of modern day US Navy SEALs. Graduates of a phenomenal suckfest, lavishly equipped by the greatest and richest political force of their time, yet they don’t know what they don’t know.
Leaving those modern musings mostly aside, I would dress the Sardaukar in the state of the art uniforms and gear…for fighting their last war, which they no doubt succeeded fantastically in. They fight in a world with Helmholtz shields, so clothing which can turn aside ‘slow’ edged attacks, and poison. Helms to improve their senses, without breaching any Butlerian restrictions on computing. Powered armor would seem to fit with that worldview, and its surprising Herbert didn’t go there.
The Sardaukar are pretty obviously based on the Ottoman Janissary Corps, who, at their peak in the 15th and 16th Centuries, were probably the best soldiers on Earth. They were known for their discipline, unit cohesion and extravagant uniforms. And like the Sardaukar, they eventually became to arrogant and entrenched, and fell behind more modern armies.
i always felt sad for the princess i mean for the most part shes treated a piece of meat but the only thing i remeber about her is in the second book she has a 2 page scene where in a exchange with paul its shown she became slightly unhinged and a generally unpleasant person and other than a short conversation every morning he has absolutley nothing to do with her … other than writing a obsessive number of books about him …does it say what happened to her ?
I wonder if the new adaptation will have Atreides war pugs like the David Lynch film?
Looks nice, but what horrible elocution by Paul. Normally I don’t really notice this (except for Bane in The Dark Knight Rises), but it is really offputting.
I’m so excited for this. Only problem is the damned pandemic.
I thought it was fine. He sounds like the unsure teenager he’s supposed to be. I thought Kyle MacLachlan did a fine job in the old Dune, but he wasn’t the Paul of the novel.
The trailer looks interesting indeed. Less glitzy than my mind would have it but not a million miles off.
I heartily approve of the Pink Floyd adaptation as well. Fits nicely.
Love the overall aesthetic, especially love the sandworm design and proper thopters.
Wait… did they replace Jihad with Crusade? I wonder if he’ll be called Maud’dib?
Well, in the book there is exactly that, sort of. There is a wormlike killing drone that seeks movement that is installed in the headboard of Paul’s bed - first night there he tussels with it and smashes the sensor head.
Agreed, this is becoming a pretty common problem with actors these days. Tom Hardy is one of the worst, half of his movies are unintelligible, and Christian Bale can fall into the trap on occasion (I suspect he had a speech impediment as a kid that slips through on occasion). Chalamet in this trailer talks like his jaw is wired shut.
But, the trailer has me intrigued. Some cool aesthetics, ultimately it will come down to how effectively they handle the mystical/religious/clairvoyant aspects.
I will say that the Dune logo is fucking awesome. Hell of a piece of graphic design there.