Dune Remake Complete

[SvennoJ]

gergroy said:

SvennoJ said:

Would it? I read game of thrones, then could not get into the tv show, just doesn't compare. For good sci fi watch The Expanse, that has the depth and awesomeness of a book. Although I haven't read the books, perhaps if I had read them first the show would not have had the same effect. West world was pretty good though.

I just finished reading the reality dysfunction from Peter F Hamilton, that is some epic (20 hour) movie material. 1100 pages of amazing sc-fi and it's only book one of the Night's dawn trilogy. The problem is, it would take a billion dollars to make lol. Plus movies / tv shows wouldn't know how to deal with affinity and data vising (sort of like telepathy) A picture might be worth a thousand words, but it can't describe thought processes very well. Dune has a lot of internal dialogue, I wonder how it works in this version.

Weird... obviously game of thrones is a hit with a huge audience.  I thought the show was amazing up until it ran out of source material and was still pretty good after that.  It was pretty faithful to the main plot threads of the books...

whatever the case, I don’t think the story of Dune can be told in a couple hours.  There is a huge amount of backstory and politics that need explanations to really understand it.  I don’t think it fits the movie format... 

Not even the extended 13 hour cut of the Lord of the rings can tell the whole story. Yet the main problem with film adaptations is, it always looks so much better in your mind when reading. Movies have the edge on sound design though :) Game of thrones didn't live up to the world I had build in my mind from the books. But indeed, the standard max 3 hour movie format is simply not capable of building a truly foreign sci-fi world.