Traditionally, there are three ways to translate a book series to the big screen. You can make one movie per book (Harry Potter), you can cram a bunch of books into one movie (The Dark Tower), or you can squeeze multiple movies out of one book (The Hobbit). The Harry Potter method is usually the most popular, but…
According to Deadline, Timothée Chalamet is in “final talks” to star in Denis Villeneuve’s new Dune movie. He’ll reportedly be playing Paul Atreides, the character Kyle MachLachlan played in David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation and the main hero of the story. Like Lynch’s version, Villeneuve’s Dune will be based on the 1965…
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…
This week’s question comes from reader James Cobb:
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…
Space, witches, prophesies, lasers, gigantic worms, hallucinogenics, Messiahs, gom jabbars, Kyle MacLachlan—what could possibly go wrong? If you’re Frank Herbert, absolutely nothing. If you’re David Lynch, Universal Studios, or one of the millions of confused and horrified moviegoers in December 1984? A metric fuck…
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…
