Brandon's Blog

4/4/2008

Children of Dune

Sounds like someone is shopping around for a screenwriter for yet another film adaptation of Dune.  Lynch took a stab at it (and was more successful, in my humble opinion) than he got credit for.

I was trying to imagine what an Aronofsky Dune would look like.  Could he compress the complex cultural and political relationships in a coherent manner (perhaps the weakest point of Lynch’s attempt)?  Could he convey the whole inner-thoughts conversational motif so well handled by Lynch?

It would probably end up being a two to three hour Clint Mansell and Mogwai-infused philosophical, impressionistic portrayal.  It might be good, but I doubt it would do any better than Lynch at capturing the book’s real intent, which was deeply involved with telling a massive story within a massive world.  These types of things defy visuals, which would be painful for a director so brilliant with visuals (hello, end of The Fountain!).