Dune (2020) - Denis Villeneuve

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Currently reading the book for the first time ever (about 3/4s through). Very excited by this. Blade Runner 2049 was a work of genius and I don't think DV has made a bad film...
 
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Just stilgar, I find Havier a mess at best.
The bond rubbish, the counsellor, all that dross he's done. prefer someone else, frankly the guy from the miniseries was a good stilgar.

I can see where you're coming from actually, i'm imagining an overtly in your face camp Stilgar now.

Who played him in the mini series? I seem to remember it was Dalton era Felix Leiter in the Lynch movie.
 
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Bardam could work.

Couldn't keep watching the miniseries, the cardboard sets were far too obvious, looked like a school play at times.

Can't wait to see a modern Dune with a decent budget...although Lynch's was pretty good for the era on the VFX front.

I hope they can retain some of the Giger darkness...although Villeneuve is probably going to go with his trademark mono-colour saturation, which I quite like as well.
 
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A few years ago i'd have been all over this but right now with his saturated exposure, not so sure. Still a cracking actor with the right roles.

Josh Brolin is reportedly in talks to play Gurney Halleck, the warmaster for the Atreides family and a mentor-like character for the young lead Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” adaptation at Legendary Pictures.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/josh-brolin-is-gurney-in-dune/
 
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He was in 1x movie in 2016, 1x in 2017 and 4x in 2018

Not exactly saturated is it?

Strangely it feels like he's been in a lot more recently. I guess as he was in two big ticket movies last year it skews perspective a little. Plus I watched Sicario 1 & 2 a few times in the last 12 months as well.
 
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Not so keen on Jason Momoa signing up to play Duncan Idaho. Some sites are reporting it as a done deal, others suggesting it's still at the negotiation stage.

Not really seen Momoa in enough really to judge whether he would be a bad choice for this film in any role.

Can he act at all?

What I have seen him in, I'm not entirely convinced he can. :p
 
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Never saw Gurney as a big muscly dude. And a fair bit older looking than Momoa.

I hated the Lynch movie for the mess they made of the "magic". The SFTV series was good and had the benefit of being able to take its time. I have never seen how Dune can be a 2-3 hour movie. It's too complex.

GoT has spawned a mass of new fantasy-type TV and film. I'm betting 90% of it will be crap.
 
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Never saw Gurney as a big muscly dude. And a fair bit older looking than Momoa.

I hated the Lynch movie for the mess they made of the "magic". The SFTV series was good and had the benefit of being able to take its time. I have never seen how Dune can be a 2-3 hour movie. It's too complex.

I always saw Gurney as a stocky solid batter the walls down chap. Whereas i saw Idaho as a sleeker faster but very strong character.
It was said by Idaho that Hallek could beat him in a knife fight 6 times out of 10.
I think they both were at the top of their warrior nature, swordmaster and warmaster.
Shield fighting with knives.

It should prove very interesting, and I hope they imagine things somewhat better than superspeed camera for 'the weirding way'

-edit I like the look of all the case bar Bardem who i don't rate at all, but perhaps in this case he can make a good Stilgar. I actually quite liked the Stilgar from the miniseries, and hope Bardem channel that role to stop himself being utter *****.
 
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