November 2, 2014
Strike Back, Season 3: This week didn’t see as much Netflix watching. I’m catching up on Season 3. I’m up to episode 6. I like that they are geographically limiting the stories to the area in which they are filming Read more…
March 25, 2011
Dune is dead. Long live Dune! There have been a few directors attached to Paramount’s planned new adaptation of Dune, and there have been a few scripts. I met some of the announcements with cautious optimism, but most with outright Read more…
September 10, 2010
I don’t know if it a sad or happy . . . or indifferent turn of events, but Peter Berg is off the Dune buggy. Sorry about that one. Anyway . . . Pierre Morel is now slated to direct Read more…
February 12, 2010
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a guy named Chase Palmer (seriously, that is totally going to be the name of a character in my Osiris Files campaign) is going to write the planned Dune movie. Now, I have no idea Read more…
January 13, 2010
Present Dune director Pierre Morel had an interview with MTV in which he discussed his love for the book. He kind of dissed David Lynch’s movie in an off-hand way. “As a David Lynch movie, I loved it. As a Read more…
January 6, 2010
So, the guy that directed Taken is set to direct Dune. Sigh. May I have my steaming hot cup of disappointment spilled in my lap now, please? Not that Taken was a bad movie. In fact, it was awesome . Read more…
October 29, 2009
It seems that Peter Berg is off of Dune. I can’t say that I’m terribly broken up about that. Berg hasn’t shown me any indication that he can take on this canonical work without going Hollywood on it. And yes, Read more…
August 7, 2009
So, Sci Fi Wire has an interview with Peter Berg about his upcoming Dune project. This will be the third adaptation of the book. I can’t say I’m particularly thrilled. I actually saw the David Lynch movie before I read Read more…