LAS VEGAS—Debuting the high-budget sequel at this year’s CinemaCon, director Dennis Villeneuve confirmed Wednesday that Dune: Part Two will pick up right where viewers fell asleep during the first one. “I think audiences are going to love this installment, which continues the epic tale from the exact moment 30 minutes…
God I want to see big budget, thematically faithful adaptations continue up to God Emperor, if only to see pop culture try to grapple with them
It's so insanely unsuited to adapting it in a way that fits with the current trends of blockbuster moviemaking. The way that it's structured, as a series of dialogues, makes me want to see it adapted in a weird arthouse theater way, like Dogville. If it gets made, I assume it will just focus on Jason Momoa action scenes.
The only thing I demand from God Emperor Of Dune on the silver screen is a long, loving, nearly pornographic depiction of Jason Momoa rock climbing.
Dune in the style of French New Wave. Just a bunch of mundane conversations laden with layers of metaphor and subtext, and a bunch of unhinged, non-diegetic cuts to paintings and ordinary household objects as puns and visual metaphors for the dialogue.
The movie will run four and a half hours and only about fifteen minutes of it will not involve someone monologuing at length.
this is how god emperor was meant to be
Only if those 15, non-monologue minutes are spent watching a character slowly do a mundane task morosely with no sound but the ambience of a distant storm.
I think this would work particularly if every aspect of it is taken super seriously as an arthouse project, but Jason Momoa is directed to act like a big dumb action hero and filmed accordingly.
You're forgetting the montage scene of a succession of hundreds of Jason Momoas fresh from the Axolotl Tanks trying to murder hundreds of face dancer faked Timothée Chalamets to unlock their memories.
Please suggest weird arthouse theater movies to me!
My Dinner with Andre is a classic arthouse film in the genre of "waiters giving people the stink eye for staying way past closing".