New Dune miniseries

DirectorTsaarx · #1 March 17th, 2003, 09:54 PM

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned the new miniseries on Sci-Fi channel this week; they're doing "Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune" in a single 6-hour miniseries (hmmmm.... "Dune" took up an entire 6-hour miniseries on its own...).

Anyway, I taped the first 2 hours Last night, and am set up to tape the next 4 hours today & tomorrow; anyone care to post their opinions? (I'm sure SOMEONE here has an opinion on the series...).

Oh, I also saw a commercial on Sci-Fi showing clips from a number of miniseries/series they're planning for this year - looks like they're doing Phillip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld" series. That should be fun; I loved that series (well, the original set of books - the sequel he wrote wasn't quite as good, IMHO).

Master Belisarius · #2 March 17th, 2003, 10:02 PM

I don't think Dune (and the complete sage) is a good book to be done as film...
I saw the David Lynch's Dune, and the miniserie. Although I liked them, think is only the skin of the book.
IMHO the complexity of the original "Dune" can't be represented with succesi in a picture. Damn, really love this book!

By the way, after read the original "Dune" I became adict (and I have not blue eyes!). I was unable to control myself and do not purchase and read the others books of the serie... But to be honest, think only the first book is a true SF classic of all the times.

David E. Gervais · #3 March 17th, 2003, 10:19 PM

I'm looking forward to seeing it (the new dune miniseries) but I don't get Sci-Fi channel. I have to wait till April 14 to see it on 'Space'

I'm sure it will be worth the wait. I have the first 'Dune miniseries' on DVD

nuf said! Cheers!

Desdinova · #4 March 17th, 2003, 11:41 PM

drat and double drat! i forgot about it. time to get the vcr over to friends house to get it recorded. either that or wait for dvd. maybe we should see if sci-fi channel would be willing to make a series out of this.

gregebowman · #5 March 18th, 2003, 12:01 AM

Heck, I didn't even know about it, and I have the Sci-Fi channel. Of course, I don't get to watch it all that much, what with the missus and the kid wanting to watch their own things. But I will defintely make an effort to watch the Battlestar Galactica mini-series.

raynor · #6 March 18th, 2003, 12:21 AM

Yesterday, the Sci-fi Channel played the entire Dune mini-series and then the Children of Dune episode one. I thought the Children of Dune episode was well done and will definitely watch part 2 tonite. Based on what I've seen so far, I'll look forward to the complete Children of Dune mini-series coming out on DVD down the road. I hated the Dune mini-series that came before it. If you are someone who hated the Dune mini-series, I think you will like the Children of Dune. The production quality seems significantly different. (I may just be biased against the original Dune mini-series because I'm more familiar with that book and compare the mini-series to the Lynch big-screen film.)

Slynky · #7 March 18th, 2003, 12:30 AM

"Dune" was definitely a great SciFi novel. Of course, one had to read the rest of the trilogy after book one.

I'm afraid, for me, the trilogy went downhill a bit when it spent increasingly more time "discussing" religion. And, I would tend to make the same remark about "Stranger in a Strangeland". Perhaps it was because I was in my late teens and early twenties.

I'd say it would be hard for anyone to turn "Dune" into a movie as great as the book but that's usually a problem with any good book. Having said that, I would trust Peter (of LOTR fame) with it.

[ March 17, 2003, 22:31: Message edited by: Slynky ]

baetis · #8 March 18th, 2003, 12:39 AM

If you missed part one of Children of Dune, they are replaying it tonight at 7:00 before part two comes on.

It was good. So who's making the Dune MOD?

Fyron · #9 March 18th, 2003, 01:22 AM

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Originally posted by baetis:
If you missed part one of Children of Dune, they are replaying it tonight at 7:00 before part two comes on.

It was good. So who's making the Dune MOD?

There was talk of making one a while back, but I don't think anything ever came of it.

Master Belisarius · #10 March 18th, 2003, 01:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Slynky:
I'd say it would be hard for anyone to turn "Dune" into a movie as great as the book but that's usually a problem with any good book.

Yes, agree 100% with you.
But think specially with "Dune" is not possible "to turn it into a movie" witouth hurt the original.
Most (all?) the time in the book, the characters say one thing and think other thing... How to do it in a movie, without a constant "voice in off" ???

I know I know, we live in times when the people read less and less.... But if someone liked the movie but still doesn't read the book, send NOW a purchase order to Amazon!!!!