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

On Jan 7, 4:28 pm, Freakzilla <jl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 6:00 pm, "Tony" <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > "FH described most scenes in detail, down to the tint of the sun and
> > color of the sand.  He said what hair and eye color almost everyone
> > had, even the shape of their face, what they're wearing and then there
> > is the ever present Atreides aquiline nose.
>
> > IMO there is no excuse for taking those kinds of liberties when it's
> > all written down for you."
>
> > Are you saying a Japanese actor couldn't play Paul?  Does the actor
have to
> > be Caucasian?
>
> No, not at all.  But he was described as being of Greek decent, why
> would you change that?  FH didn't talk much about race in his books
> beyond a characters "dark" or "olive" skin.  I think a Dune movie
> should have an almost random variety of races.

He didn't talk much about race - and who knows what races might look
like _that_ far off - I mean isn't it only 20,000 years since everyone
stepped off Africa?

_BUT_

Jessica's red hair - I mean that's an indication of recessive celt/
(neanderthal?) if there ever was one.
Atreides with Greek and subtextually some Spanish - you can see it in
the Bullhead and the hawk nose.
Fremen are really a hella lot like arabs - I mean come on - lol

_HOWEVER_

I think you're right everyone else is a big big mix.