I understand not wanting to continue and how hard translating God Emperor to the screen would be but I wish he would give it a go.
As @chaogomu said, Dune Messiah completes Paul’s story arc but the comparison between Paul’s unwillingness to take the golden path and Leto’s acceptance of it could be a great thing to see.
Paul clings to his humanity and billions die in his name, Leto sacrificed it and changed the destiny of the human race.
It’s been a long (LONG) time since I’ve read past God Emperor, but does anyone feel that anything past that would make for good cinema?
Note: I never read any he books by Brian Herbert, so maybe some of them would be ok. I dunno.
God Emperor would make a weird movie, but could probably work as a limited series. In my opinion, the two last books are the ones best suited for adaptation. Especially Heretics has a perfect balance between intrigue, drama, action and sex.
I’ve never read the prequels either, but a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think
I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was “Holy shit it’s the Butlerian Jihad”
“we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better”
The first book was awesome. I think the second book was ok, but disliked dead characters getting resurrected for apparently inane drama. The book I finally stopped at was whatever one it was that the main character turns into a telepathic immortal sand worm and was abjectly awful.
I think they’re making the right choice. Dune has some amazing world building, but the series got muddled down into whatever drug fueled fugue state and stopped being interesting.
God emperor is a masterpiece and one of the best philosophical books I have ever read. It just felt like the author has a very deep insight into the human condition. It’s not a typical book with a lot pf external action happening though.
That’s a good stopping point. I would like to see Children of Dune on screen too, but beyond that I think it would be difficult to successfully translate the themes of the rest of the books onto screen for a broad audience like he’s managed to do with the first one.
It is the full story of Paul Atreides, following the Classic story arc.
I always point to the parallels between Dune and the Classic play Oedipus Rex.
Oedipus was born of a family that had sinned and was punished for it by the gods. That was why Apollo issued that prophecy. Oedipus then spends the first part of his story grappling with the questions of Fate vs Free Will.
Oedipus had his rise, and then his fall, and at that fall, he blinded himself and wandered into the wilderness.
Paul and Oedipus. They both were bound by prophecy, and both had very little say in it.
Oedipus’ fall was engineered from the day he was born. Paul’s… was slightly more complex.
Then Oedipus’ son turned into a worm and ruled for 3000 years.
Makes sense since that brings Paul’s story to a logical conclusion.
Yes, but also because the rest of the books abandon the swashbuckling action and are basically science fiction political dramas.
Iirc there’s quite a bit of action in Chapterhouse. God Emperor had some with them trying to get in and then escape the palace.
I’m not an avid reader, but I enjoyed the movie. Do people who read the books think the movie did the books justice? Thought I’d give the books a shot
I’m waiting for Dune 2 to release to tell you.
Dennis saved a lot of the best stuff for the 2nd movie as bait to ensure he would get a second movie.
Dune is such a hard book to translate into a movie because lots of important dialogue that drives character growth and the political intrigue of the book is either Frank Herbert himself narrating the events, discussion or perceptions taking place in the characters’ minds, characters talking imperceptibly with their hand gestures, and characters saying one thing but using body language or gestures to mean another.
To adapt that into spoken lines on a script undercuts just how brilliant and smart many of the protagonists and antagonists are. I think Lady Jessica got the worst treatment in the first movie.
