Tis a good time to be a DUNE fan. Spin-off series already ordered for streaming.
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The powers that be definitely seem to be building up the license as the ānext big thingā. Considering that Game of Thrones and Star Wars may be heading for a slight hiatus with their big storylines ending this year, maybe 2020 is the year to really push Dune?
Well this is very promising news indeed!
Iāll wait to get excited 'til we can tell if the writers actually bothered to read the books. And whether this series is based upon the KJA novel or is a more general spinoff. (I quit reading the new books halfway through Paul of Duneā¦ it tried a GRRM flash back and forth edit, and I hate those.)
TV so often gets settings wrongā¦ (Earthsea comes immediately to mind. TV show: almost all caucasiansā¦ but not one meeting a caucasoid that I recall in the books.)
I hope they do it right. But I dare say, until they show me they did, Iām going to remain hesitant.
Villeneuve has been said to be checking that the visual and costume staff have actually read the booksā¦ and I hope thatās trueā¦ and has mentioned in interviews elements from other books than just the first 3, so seems to be a true fanā¦
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This!
Though Iād rather it be based on Herbertās original writings. I never got into the follow on books that much. Level one of my tables with one.
But this really wonāt impact me, going with yet another private streaming service. Iāll probably never actually see it. At least until the āstreaming bubbleā collapses and they reorganize back into a common sense service format.
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Hopefully that last bit means heās pulling from Heretics/Chapterhouse, since thatās where we see inside the Bene Gesserit from Frank Herbertās mind.
We see more (which is directly from FHās notes, according to multiple sources) in Sandworms and Hunters. (7 & 8) The story is, to me, seamless thereā¦ So I suspect most of the details therein are also FHās, not BH/KJA in origin.
My standard for āpassableā is āGets the tech, colors and heraldry correct, and recognizably resembles the bookās plot.ā For this spinoff? āgets the tech, colors, heraldry and litanies right and doesnāt contradict D, DM CoD, GEoD, HoD, CHD, Hnt, SWoDā¦ā
Would be nice if it also avoided contradicting the House series prequelsā¦