Denis Villeneuve's Dune

I've read Rendezvous with Rama and I think it would work better as a TV show

Rama, like Dune, is another series that gets really up itself the longer it goes on. It adopts what I can only describe as an unearned spiritual tone.

The idea of a series isn't that terrible. Exploration of the spaceship could indeed be an episodic adventure akin to Lost in Space.

That's what they said about Dune too, and yet Villeneuve pulled it off rather well regardless.

Man, that fight scene at the end was brutal. One of the most brutal ones I've seen for a while.

Edited by Redmess on Apr 8th 2024 at 3:01:40 PM

Dune has very clear good guys and bad guys and it has had plenty of previous adaptations to draw from so it stopped being impossible to film years ago,Rama by contrast is about exploring an alien spaceship and the drama is about what they'll find on the ship rather then who they'll face,and has to my knowledge never been adapted as a film,so whoever makes it first has a lot of expectations to get it right

Edited by Ultimatum on Apr 8th 2024 at 2:11:51 PM

I feel like we should move this discussion to a new thread. (Rama famously has No Antagonist, at least for the first book... except I think I remember one of the astronauts going nuts.)

Edited by Fighteer on Apr 8th 2024 at 9:11:05 AM

Done! I've created a separate topic for Rama

Edited by Ultimatum on Apr 8th 2024 at 2:44:14 PM

Honest Trailer for Dune Part 2.

Some great zingers in there.

"When you leave the suburb for the first time."

Paul: "There's spice in the food."

Thought the Honest Title was kinda lazy, though: 2une(also, it should be just 2ne).

That would be pronounced "Toon".

Not if you pronounce it in Frenglish.