Suggesting the sort of potential bloat that inevitably leads to people floating around a ballroom, ripping out people’s heart plugs and screaming about “he who controls the spice,” director Denis Villeneuve has announced that his upcoming Dune movie is expanding into at least a second film. Speaking in front of a crowd
Denis Villenueve’s latest film, Blade Runner 2049 was a mixed success; critically praised, the film failed to do much at all at the U.S. box office. (European audiences were more kind.) Just in case you needed a reminder that, in Hollywood, you’re only as good as your last picture, though, Villeneuve—whose previous…
Today, in “You come at the Emperor, you best not miss” news: Director Denis Villeneuve—whose recent sci-fi film credentials are pretty impeccable, given the critical response to Arrival and Blade Runner 2049—has taken some stabs at the massive, unstoppable Star Wars franchise. Talking to Fandom, Villeneuve painted the…
Director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 was a surprisingly faithful sequel to Ridley Scott’s original film, echoing its iconic style with new ideas and advancements that still felt honest to core of the original. For his upcoming adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, though, Villeneuve’s has no interest in paying…
Back during the summer, it was revealed that the producers of the James Bond franchise had been courting three potential directors to helm the next film in the series. One was David MacKenzie, the under-appreciated Scottish director of Young Adam and Starred Up, whose career has experienced a jolt after the critical…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
The most widely admired science-fiction film to come out of the 1980s, Blade Runner reimagined the nocturnal, seductive, and pessimistic qualities of film noir and its ’70s derivative, neo-noir, for the paranoid cityscape of the future: a dark, rainy, multi-lingual Los Angeles where a detective in a trench coat trails…
According to Variety, Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth has signed on to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune remake, lending the project the distinct air of Oscar prestige. Roth is also the writer behind The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Munich, and this Dune adaptation will be his first sci-fi project since The Postman in 1997…
There were rumblings of the sandworm variety in late December, when The Hollywood Reporter indicated that Denis Villeneuve would tackle the Dune remake that’s eluded so many other directors’ grasps. Well, Brian Herbert, son of Dune author Frank, has just confirmed that Villeneuve will helm the new movie.
Denis Villeneuve may take on a challenge many directors before him have faced: He might try and adapt Frank Herbert’s Dune. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Villeneuve is in talks to tackle the project for Legendary Entertainment, which recently bought the film and television rights to the novel. David Lynch…
Perhaps after recognizing that the real world is so distasteful these days that audiences are more accepting of sci-fi stories than ever before, certified hit-making production company Legendary Entertainment has picked up the rights to Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the most famous (and famously dense) sci-fi sagas…
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
In The Overlook, A.V. Club film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky examines the misfits, underappreciated gems, and underseen classics of film history.
Strap on your weirding modules and hold on to your decorative pugs: The Overlook, The A.V. Club’s ongoing exploration of neglected and under-appreciated films, is going live with a special screening of David Lynch’s ambitious 1984 sci-fi epic Dune at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre on Saturday, October 1st.
Frank Herbert’s Dune is a notoriously difficult book to adapt, having stymied both directors Alejandro Jodorowsky and—to a slightly lesser extent—David Lynch in their efforts to bring it to the screen. But it turns out that we were all just waiting for a chosen one to arrive, to pierce the veil of time and explain the…
In Page To Screen, we compare a movie to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned.
Worms—they are creepy, and crawly, and may or may not be prone to playing pinochle on one’s snout. Film has often used worms in its depiction of disease and decay. But there are a select group of special worms that aren’t like the literal garden variety type. These worms all have personality and memorable moments on…
Frank Herbert’s Dune has always sustained a climate hospitable to bizarre visual interpretation. From Mobius’ and H.R. Giger’s unused concept art for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unfinished movie adaption to David Lynch’s moody art deco version, a book series about warrior-zealots living on a desert planet infused with…
Science fiction films, especially lower-budget ones, only have a few tools at their disposal to sell the otherworldliness of their future fictions. One is the matte painting, which establishes the exotic setting. Another is costuming, letting the viewer know these are not today’s people and customs. And the rest…
Movie Barcode is the work of an anonymous Tumblr user who takes every frame from a film and condenses them all down to a single pixel’s worth of color. Laid out in a single rectangular box, the results take on a form that, while abstract, is evocative of the tone of the film at hand. Sometimes, it even seems to be…