![]() ![]() That choice was snatched from them due to Covid, so I’m more than a little sympathetic. I still maintain that WB selling it as this year’s Lord of the Rings/Avatar/Star Wars is the best shot for commercial success. I have no reason to think that would happen, but if so Warner the opportunity to push The Matrix 4 into 2022 (or, hell, move it into October) and then position Dune (as intended in 2020) as the year-end, must-see fantasy spectacular. Truth be told, the best thing for Dune might be for Sony to panic and move Spider-Man: No Way Home into 2022. It was supposed to open on October 2 (same weekend as Gravity, Gone Girl and Joker), but Sony moved Hotel Transylvania: Transformania there and WB wanted some space between itself and No Time to Die on October 8. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 3, but it won’t open theatrically until October 22. So, yeah, WB is selling Dune via its many movie stars and the implicit promise of big-scale adventure, in that order. A bigger part, arguably the key part, is the notion of lots of actors you like and hopefully a marquee character (Katniss Everdeen, Venom, Freddie Mercury) in an otherwise appealing movie. Audiences don’t show up for “new to you” adaptations as much as they did even a decade ago, so the idea of a never-before-seen fantasy world is only part of the sale. It’s no secret that I’m concerned about Dune becoming the next John Carter, namely an expensive adaptation of a comparatively cult sci-fi property which ends up looking (to general audiences) like a rip-off of the many more recent/more popular films and shows that merely followed in its wake. It sells the scope, the scale, the diversity of its core cast and the sheer number of known actors making up its initial roll-call. It’s a bland poster but it’s intended to convert the disinterested or unaware, not preach the already feverishly excited. ![]() Oh, and you have a full-body shot of Paul Atreides looking serious and contemplative, along with the release date (October 22) and the “in theaters and on HBO Max” confirmation. Tanya Lapointe, Joshua Grode, Herbert W Gains, Spaihts, Thomas Tull, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert are executive producers.Again, nothing groundbreaking here, but it wasn’t so long ago that most big movies would consider themselves “progressive” for having even two female characters worthy of poster inclusion. Mary Parent, Villeneuve, Cale Boyter and Joe Caracciolo Jr. Villeneuve directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive. The plot centers on Atreides, a brilliant and gifted man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. The character posters revealed today via the film’s social media pages feature Chalamet, who stars as Paul Atreides Zendaya as Chani Ferguson as Lady Jessica Momoa as Duncan Idaho Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides Bardem as Stilgar Brolin as Gurney Halleck and Skarsgård as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. ![]()
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