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Well, that's the thing. From their perspective, what did it matter who was Emperor, as long as the spice still got harvested, and interstellar commerce kept on. Paul's guiding interest was in keeping the Fremen in control of Arrakis. Being Emperor was the only way he could maintain that. So...

My wife and I finally had a chance to get out to see this today. Unfortunately, it's past its IMAX showings by now, but them's the breaks. We both loved it as much as expected. The only oddity that stuck out for me was that, in the two films together, there was nothing of note regarding the...

This is why I roll my eyes when industry folks like Martin Scorsese or Ridley Scott go on about people needing to go to the cinema to see movies instead of watching them at home. They don't have to suffer through the shit we plebians have to.

The only thing that makes sense to me in this regard is if she plays someone significant that no one would expect. Which suggests to me that she appears in scenes that foreshadow events from Dune Messiah, playing .

Wel, yes. Didn't I say that? Sam was talking about the books, so I was responding about the books. And, to quote myself: "there would be no compelling reason to adapt anything after Children of Dune. But there aren't any announced plans to do that as a film."

Children of Dune is the third book (unless you want to count the original Dune as two books, which it kinda sorta somewhat is). The rest of Frank Herbert's original set are (4) God Emperor of Dune, (5) Heretics of Dune, and (6) Chapterhouse: Dune. After that are an endless parade of terrible...

These "versions" are available (still, I believe) on Blu-ray in the US from Music Box Films as "Extended Versions" of the films. The third film is the most disappointing. It leaves out enough of the material from the book that I would've found it confusing as hell if I hadn't read the book...

Or the original Swedish films in the Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, et alia), which aired in Sweden as a six-episode mini-series.

I'd be fine going at 10pm. I'm a night owl. My wife, on the other hand...

Dune Messiah is about half the size of either Dune or Children of Dune.

Wimps these days. Back in December 1976, we eagerly devoured the novelization of Star Wars, six months before the movie was released! We lived on the edge. :eek:

I think they see it as a game of chicken. They are counting on their money outlasting the writers' and actors' money.

It's a good things SDCC has a reasonable backup plan for panels. They could talk about, you know, comic books...

Prior to its book publication, it was serialized in the SF magazine Analog. There were two serials. The first, "Dune World", in three parts, covered "Book I" above. The second, "The Prophet of Dune", in five parts, covered "Book II" and "Book III" above. It was always considered by Frank Herbert...

Didn't Ralph Bakshi's animated film of The Lord of the Rings have a "Part 1" on it? There never was a Part 2. As I recall, the film ended right about where I gave up reading the books -- right in the middle of The Two Towers. I never knew the ending until Jackson's trilogy came out.

John Schoenherr's iconic cover painting for one chapter of the magazine serialization of Dune:

I can't agree. They weren't a patch on the first book, but they were quite readable, at least the next two. I've read the first three a few times, and the next three of Frank Herbert's only once (at the time they were first published). I've never read any of the further books written by his son...

Read the book!

You gotta love it when they issue a trailer for the trailer...

It saves money whenever he needs an X-ray taken.