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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 23:57:43 GMT -5
Article hereThe basics... The movie isn't set to be released until November 2020, and this will be a companion series to that film, so WB's streaming service should be up and running by then. Since it looks like all the new DC content form DC Universe is likely to get folded in to the WB service and the DC Universe platform scrapped (I may be inclined to get the WB service or at least try it if my sub to DCU isn't up yet when it launches and I can transfer my already paid fee to that), there may be enough content to entice me, but I am burned out on the streaming wars already and will likely just wait for a DVD/bluray release. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 22:00:39 GMT -5
While I don't want to see DC Universe fail, but I wouldn't be opposed to the DC shows moving to the WB Service. A Dune TV show just isn't quite worth the fee to me, even as a huge Dune saga fan, but throw in some other great WB shows, especially the DC ones and I am sold. It makes way more sense anyways. Disney has the right idea by packaging their own content, the Marvel, and Star Wars under one place for one price.
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Post by berkley on Jun 12, 2019 22:44:52 GMT -5
Since it seems to be spinning off from the forthcoming Villeneuve Dune it's hard to know what to think of the idea until we see the movie.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 13, 2019 17:06:56 GMT -5
Since it seems to be spinning off from the forthcoming Villeneuve Dune it's hard to know what to think of the idea until we see the movie. I reserve the right to feel dread about an extended Dune universe involving Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliter... It’s not workiiiiiiiiing... |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 13, 2019 23:10:29 GMT -5
Ah, it's just not the same if everyone isn't chewing scenery....  I still think he thought he was talking about Stewart Copeland. |
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Post by berkley on Jun 14, 2019 2:28:21 GMT -5
Since it seems to be spinning off from the forthcoming Villeneuve Dune it's hard to know what to think of the idea until we see the movie. I reserve the right to feel dread about an extended Dune universe involving Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliter... It’s not workiiiiiiiiing... I forgot they were involved in some way with the movie ... hopefully they just receive a meaningless credit as a gesture and don't actually have any input into the film or the series. |
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Post by berkley on Jun 14, 2019 2:33:50 GMT -5
I just looked up Jon Spaihts on wiki: nothing too encouraging to me in his resumé, I'm afraid - I didn't think much of the scripts for Prometheus or Dr. Strange, the only two i've seen, though of course you never know with movies how much of the credited writer's original script made it onto the screen.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 9, 2020 12:15:11 GMT -5
Well, this looks good!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2020 12:19:51 GMT -5
Well that just might get me to go back to the theatres! It just looks plain amazing. And I can't quite get over the Pink Floyd cover used... -M |
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Post by berkley on Sept 11, 2020 22:55:04 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound like yet another of my knee-jerk negative responses to everything, but I can't stomach Chalamet as Paul Atreides: for me, his weaselly looks make him more suited to the role of Feyd-Rautha, if anyone; and worse, his voice and delivery feel totally at odds with not only the character and the lines he's speaking, but the whole Dune-universe. He sounds like a character in a contemporary young adult relationship-drama, not a charismatic leader of men. Granted, that is always a hard sort of role to play convincingly, even for much better actors - witness Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone<s Alexander the Great
Villeneuve will make this film look great, and I'll watch it for the visuals at least. But I fear the casting is going to let me down in a big way.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 12, 2020 7:48:21 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound like yet another of my knee-jerk negative responses to everything, but I can't stomach Chalamet as Paul Atreides: for me, his weaselly looks make him more suited to the role of Feyd-Rautha, if anyone; and worse, his voice and delivery feel totally at odds with not only the character and the lines he's speaking, but the whole Dune-universe. He sounds like a character in a contemporary young adult relationship-drama, not a charismatic leader of men. Granted, that is always a hard sort of role to play convincingly, even for much better actors - witness Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone<s Alexander the Great Villeneuve will make this film look great, and I'll watch it for the visuals at least. But I fear the casting is going to let me down in a big way. From what I've read, he isn't that charismatic leader of men just yet in this film as it only covers the first half of the novel. Can he convincingly make that transformation in the second film? I don't know, but for young Paul Atreides just figuring out who he's supposed to be it seems like he's a good fit from what little we've seen so I'll wait to pass judgement. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 12, 2020 8:14:11 GMT -5
I see berkley 's point, but I think Chalamet pulled it off in The King (playing Henri V). Chalamet also looks suitably young for Paul (unlike Kyle McLachlan, who looked too old and tall, or the actor from the TV series, who also looked like an adult already). The best surprise from the casting is how good Jason Momoa looks as Duncan Idaho; not at all the way I imagined him, but his interactions with Paul in those few seconds create the impression of a strong emotional bond, and that's what will make the movie work in the end (meaning whether we can emppathize with these characters and care what happens to them). And they say "Chah-nee" instead of "Chay-nee". I can die happy. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2020 15:58:14 GMT -5
Welp news just hit today that the Dune release has been pushed back form December 2020 to October 2021. I just hope there are movie theatre chains in business by that point. Between this and the Bond delay, the last major tentpoles cinemas were pinning their hopes on to salvage 2020 have been taken down. Regal already announced they are closing all of their theatres in the US yesterday after the Bond news, wonder how many more will follow suit after this.
I understand the reasons behind the delays, and I am certainly reluctant to go out to a theatre to see a movie at this point, I am just not sure actual theatre chains are going to make it until 2021 for a resurgence to happen if we ever get to a post-COVID place.
-M
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Post by brutalis on Oct 5, 2020 16:55:03 GMT -5
Movie theaters need to turn their eyes upon television methinks. Set up binge watching of series shown on the big screen. I would gladly pay for 6 hrs in a single day for viewing a set of various shows, or what about a 3hr showing spotlighting episodes deserving of the big screen.
How about Walking Dead, The Flash, Arrow, Swamp Thing, Doom Patrol, Spartacus, Into the Badlands and others? ALL the Arrowverse crossovers would go over big I would bet. I can believe fans would shell out money to see original Star Trek, Next Generation, DS 9, Voyager, Battlestar Galactica old and new episodes.
I would love to see classic animated series from television make it to the big screen again. GI Joe the movie and those GI mini series starting it off. Transformers the Movie and the original min-series. Same to see He-Man and She-Ra or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Hell, quit with remaking television series into new movies and run episodes of classic series as movies. Man From U.N.C.L.E, some Steed and Mrs. Peel Avengers, Miami Vice, Mission Impossible, CSI or NCIS.
Lots of possibilities, along with running classic movies that THE youth of today have only seen on television or us old Fogey's wish we could see on the big screen again. Even big name concerts I would never stand in crowds for but gladly sit on my butt to enjoy!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 6, 2020 20:17:13 GMT -5
I wonder if that would be a cost effective thing? I know a couple theatres in this area were renting out the whole theatre to people cheaply, and offering a bunch of oldish stuff on offer. My little brother did it with my in laws to what SHrek with all their kids for $50.. that sort of thing could maybe do something.
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