Djinn@lemm.eeM to Movies and TV Shows@lemm.ee · 11 months agoDenis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’variety.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1184arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareTehgingeylinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoI’ve never read the prequels either, but a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months ago a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think I thought that as well and so gave the prequels a try. I’ve never read the prequels either, Honestly, that was for the best. The writing was ok but a pale shadow of the original. (think the film version of LOTR vs The Hobbit…)
minus-squarePsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoIt was interesting seeing some of it fleshed out, but I’m not a fan of Brian Herbert’s contributions.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoI was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was “Holy shit it’s the Butlerian Jihad”
minus-squareTehgingeylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months ago“we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better”
minus-squaresignalsayge@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoTo be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).
I’ve never read the prequels either, but a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think
I thought that as well and so gave the prequels a try.
Honestly, that was for the best. The writing was ok but a pale shadow of the original. (think the film version of LOTR vs The Hobbit…)
It was interesting seeing some of it fleshed out, but I’m not a fan of Brian Herbert’s contributions.
I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was “Holy shit it’s the Butlerian Jihad”
“we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better”
To be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).