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I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Despite the Bene Gesserit invocation against fear, I'm afraid of the new Dune project.
Not because the selected screenwriter is young and according to Variety, one to watch, not because the announced director Peter Berg has credits that seem less than 'other worldly' (Very Bad Things, The Kingdom).
Rather my fear and hope for Dune, is to find an heir equal to the throne established by David Lynch's vision, which it has been argued was flawed in comparison with the novel. But out of a handful of the few good novel-to-film adaptations, can anyone point to a 'perfect' one?
Lynch's film was and is, the most compelling and complete vision of the Herbert universe thus far.
Please, don't make me go into the mini-series, it's too painful.
But hope springs eternal, after all God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
~DM
Scribe in talks for "Dune" resurrection
By Jay A. FernandezFri Jun 6, 7:55 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)
We have wormsign.
Rookie scribe Josh Zetumer is in negotiations to write the latest incarnation of "Dune," Frank Herbert's sprawling sci-fi epic, for Paramount Pictures.
The award-winning 1965 novel -- the first in a series of six books about a futuristic struggle for control of a precious spice called Melange on the desert planet Arrakis -- was first adapted by David Lynch into a financially and critically disastrous 1984 film (though Herbert apparently liked it). It also was turned into a more successful Sci Fi Channel miniseries in 2000.
No one involved would comment on Zetumer's take on the "Dune" saga.
Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson, who have co-written several additional "Dune" novels, will co-produce. Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights") is attached to direct.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
