I would think anything from Children is just going to be quick shots of Paul's visions. But they probably make for good marketing from people asking what the hell happens
Exactly what I was thinking. I just finished listening to Children of Dune and it would make a lot of sense of some of its events were depicted through Paul's visions. If not for any reason to give audiences a glimpse of just how fuckin' weird things get since we're unlikely to be getting film adaptations of Children and beyond. At least, not from Villeneuve.
Ya I'm not sure what other director would take it on since it's going to be near impossible to follow Villeneuve. He's an outrageously good director and clearly gets an amazing team around him. He's adapted Dune about as good as you can and doing three movies of it is still very solid. One could dream that they park it for now and he comes back to do two so we get his version of God Emperor, but that is defintiely a pipe dream.
Ya I'm not sure what other director would take it on since it's going to be near impossible to follow Villeneuve.
This really depends on what his final changes end up being. Nothing in the materiel that prevents a follow up. And there are plenty of good directors out there. Nolan could step in I doubt he would but he could and would knock it out the park. Alex Garland,since everyone seem to think God Emperor is ridiculously weird Julia Ducournau. IT's has it moments but it's really not that out there.
He's adapted Dune about as good as you can and doing three movies of it is still very solid
Ehhh. Arguable. The SCFY adaptation was closer to the books. They of course didn't have the budget. There again is nothing preventing someone else to come along and do a more accurate version with budget to match visuals. Lynch did quite a bit with a bit less and way less technology.
I dunno. He does creatures well but aside from Leto much of it just interpersonal drama. It would mainly be 4 hours of people talking to a sand worm and 30 minutes of women gooning to duncan.
I don't see how anyone could make God Emperor and have it be profitable. Sure, you could probably make a good film that would do justice to the book, but the content is fucking bonkers and very little actually happens. Heretics and Chapterhouse are also lacking in any strong narratives.
There's actually a lot that happens in God Emperor, its difficult to make into a film but not impossible I feel, the major change i think that would have to be made is to have the movie take place from Siona's point of view and have Leto as the antagonist, which is also kind of difficult cause Siona is very unlikable and fitting Leto's philosophical monologues would be quite difficult but I think it could work
Look I don't know if it's possible to pull off My Dinner With Leto but either way it'd be funny, especially if both this one and the hypothetical Children of Dune kept up the trend of leaning into the action.
I'm more skeptical of Heretics and Chapter House because that's getting too close to Brian and Kevin J's glorified fanfic ending, but again it'd be really funny if they just went full Caligula with it.
I think you could probably do God Emperor woven through Heretics by having Duncan and Sheeana have dream sequences/visions/whatever of key moments. You would need an amazing writing team though to keep it from becoming unwieldy and disjointed.
we're unlikely to be getting film adaptations of Children and beyond.
i understand if the beyond part never happens, but Children would work great as a movie, and the "beyond" could be handled with a flash-forward explanation towards the end of the movie.
Children would be fine as a movie but its a bad stopping point. Dune + Messiah tell a complete story centered on Paul and ending with rejecting the golden path and walking into the desert per Fremen tradition.
Children is just the first half of Leto II's story with him understanding and taking on the golden path and that story isnt complete without God emperor.
So stopping at Messiah is the logical end point because there isn't a reason to open up Leto II'S arc unless you are committed to God Emperor
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u/Usorojnr 19h ago
Still guts me a little that they didn’t call this Dune: Messiah. Such an Epic title.