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Although I find John Harrison's DUNE miniseries to be imperfect and slightly MST3K fodder, I still like the way the films were done. I was disappointed that Sci Fi wouldn't permit John Harrison to direct his new series based off of GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE. Since I have the honor of being among sharp and imaginative minds here, I ask you: what would be the result if John Harrison were able to direct GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE as a Sci-Fi channel miniseries?

Hwi Noree would wear a big hat.

It wouldn't have enough Hot Ghanima.

It also wouldn't have Daniela Amavia

Hwi Noree would be played by a Czechoslovakian or Polish babe with scientific intelligence and valuable breeding assets. (Fit for a Worm God!)

Nayla's hat would have it's own make-up trailer.

Fish Speaker hats!
I'm not sure I want to think about that.

Freakzilla wrote:Nayla's hat would have it's own make-up trailer.

What about Duncan's rope?

Yeah, once again, funny costumes. But at least the script would have respect for the story and ultimately, that's what counts, right?

Yeah, but Leto II would be a really bad special effect.

HBJ

Hunchback Jack wrote:Yeah, but Leto II would be a really bad special effect.

HBJ

I've put a lot of time into thinking how I would do GEOD if given the chance -- particularly the problem you speak of, in addition to the issues presented by the book's highly philosophical/narrative-driven style and the considerable difficulties involved in bridging the book's ending with a version that would be just "Hollywood" enough to make it satisfying (he'll, even uplifting and pleasant, if such a thing is possible?!).....

Obviously, it would be one hell of a challenge, even with adequate funding & resources (at one time I had Middle Eastern friends, fellow Dune fans, intersted in supporting such a project if the rights could be secured, but as we know that's unlikely and it's been years since I had those offers); but one that I would relish.

Holy jumpin' Jeebus S. Jehosaphat, a Dune web-movie/miniseries that manages not only to not be a trainwreck embarrassment....but also avoid the Hat Factor? Imagine that!

How do you do it so Leto II doesn't look like Jabba with a face? I'm not making a joke and I haven't spent a lot of time on it, but this is THE problem to overcome. George Lucas ruined it for us! I'm willing to bet that this is why scify stopped at Children, all the film magic in the world won't keep the kids from saying/thinking, "What's Jabba the Hutt doing here?"
It's a shame really, and we all know it.

Does anyone remember the drawing of the God Emperor someone once posted here for scale? Someone said that the question of size came up elsewhere (just how big is the worm-ha!) and they hammered out something quick to show.

Found it! only 50 pages in!

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Looking for this, I found that that the Jabba/Leto thing has come up before. I'm not looking to jump into that stuff, just what I said above.

There would be ways to present Leto, though perhaps not all of them completely canonical.

One thought: our hypothetical producers could go for something super-scary and/or -disturbing. De-humanize the facial area even more, in other words. That would help get it away from the "Jabba with a face" worries.

As a made for TV movie they would have found ways to avoid showing Leto as much as possible, the publicity would go on about how this adaptation focussed more on the rebellion and Siona's choices... but the reality is CGI worm things are a good way to piss money down the drain.

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What's all that noise in the background?

merkin muffley wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZdilt3k ... r_embedded[/youtube]
What's all that noise in the background?

There is another video where they show his vision of the danger in the future and they show these robots walking around, lol.

Sounds like traffic in the background.