Dune Messiah Movie may be greenlit.

[darjr]

 

[Dyson Logos]

Messiah is important (and also important to Villeneuve) because it drives home that Paul is not a hero.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Messiah is important (and also important to Villeneuve) because it drives home that Paul is not a hero.

He's a very naughty boy!

 

[eyeheartawk]

I would be really, really shocked if they made any movies past Messiah. They get weird beyond that book, like way more weird than I think WB would be willing to gamble 300 million bucks on.

 

[Ryujin]

Oh, I definitely think that boy in a worm suit would be a bridge too far.

 

[Umbran]

He's a very naughty boy!

If I recall correctly, in the original text, Paul compares himself unfavorably to Hitler, so yeah.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

If hell froze over and they could convince him to do it, I'd love to see David Lynch directing Jason Momoa talking to a giant anthropomorphic worm for two hours.

 

[Sepulchrave II]

He's a very naughty boy!

Paul kills sixty-one billion people, but we should take comfort in the fact that his prescience* tells us that it would be worse if he hadn't. As Frank Herbert wrote:

"I wrote the Dune Saga because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with the warning label 'May Be Dangerous To Your Health'"

*Dingbats

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Paul kills sixty-one billion people, but we should take comfort in the fact that his prescience* tells us that it would be worse if he hadn't. As Frank Herbert wrote:

"I wrote the Dune Saga because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with the warning label 'May Be Dangerous To Your Health'"

*Dingbats

Indeed. In the second part of the novel Paul is faced with choices, and all of them are terrible. It's the fact that he looks for a way out, or failing that, the least bad option, that makes him not a villain. Fayd Rautha Messiah?

But to get this across in a movie is difficult without Paul's inner voice. Judging by the trailer it looks like Villeneuve is having Chani give voice to the dark side of Paul's path. But even with that, without Dune Messiah it would be difficult to show that Paul's path leads not to glory and power, but sacrifice and death.

 

[Sepulchrave II]

But to get this across in a movie is difficult without Paul's inner voice.

The problem with Paul’s inner voice is that it’s hard to give it any objective truth value. I mean, Pol Pot and Idi Amin had inner voices, too.

Edit: I mean, Paul’s messianic status is never really confirmed or denied; from a purely human perspective we are forced to consider whether he is delusional or psychotic.