Re: New Dune Movie Announced (YES) - How would you cast it?

"Khal" <damageready@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> A New Dune Movie is Suspected in the Works because:

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> 3. _Dune is an Islamic text, is more Topical than it's ever been_
>
> Do I have to say it, the war in Iraq resembles more Dune than
> anything that occurred around WWI (Lawrence of Arabia has good
> resemblance), and it's almost like Frank Herbert had a bit of
> prescience. Striding with grace the science of religion and the
> science (fiction) of humanity, Frank Herbert's imagining of the human
> species is vibrant. Every Iman out of Iran and every Nazrallah shares
> the same fevered dreams of the general Fremen populace. Herbert's
> religions, with a dash of Christianity, and a splash of Judaism,
> distilled with an overcast of conflict and personal strength and
> sacrifice, drum through everypage with a frequency more in tune with
> today's news than at any other time. The one thing that might stop
> Dune from being done as a movie again, and indeed the danger of it,
> is that this examination of the different religions might be watered
> down out of fear.

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That is the worst reason imaginable for wanting to do a Dune movie.