Sci Fi Gives Green Light To "Children of Dune"

fooguy writes "Our friends at the Sci Fi Channel have given the Green Light to begin production of Children of Dune. According to the release, 'The miniseries begins production in Prague in April 2002 and is slated to air in 2003. Dune adapter John Harrison wrote the script, based on "Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune," the second and third novels in Frank Herbert's six-volume Dune Chronicles series. Richard P. Rubinstein comes back on board as executive producer. The sequel will continue the story of the Atreides family and recount the fall of Paul's empire, with the future resting in the hands of Paul's heirs, his twin children."

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The big problem with the miniseries was that the actor playing Gurney Halleck was absolutely horrible. I guess it's partly because I can't see anyone but Patrick Stewart as him(one of the only redeeming features of David Lynch's debacle). At no time during the series, did I believe that he was an elite fighter of any kind.

Also, neither the movie or the miniseries did Duncan Idaho justice. In the novels, he's a badass but he doesn't even do anything in the miniseries. Richard Jordan was just too old to play him in the original movie. The actor portraying him in the miniseries just wasn't given enough screen time.

Re:Weirding Modules

[mo26101]

Actuall, the weirding way is the freeman word for the martial arts for the Benie Geserit (sp?), which, of cource, Jessica and Paul teach them.

Re:Better news than the novels

[Amazing Quantum Man]

I hope, at least, that they get the design of the Weirding Modules directly from the book this time.

There ARE NO FUCKING WIERDING MODULES IN THE BOOK!!!!!

Re:No movie to compare to

[jspey]

"God Emperor of Dune! was the best one. The whole point of the first three books, besides telling a story was to set up book 4. The series wouldn't have been as good as it was if it wasn't for the ideas he put forth in book four and carried out through the last two. He really goes out of his way to drive home both the advances and the risks of all the exploration that gets done after "God Emperor".

Mr. Spey

Re:Better news than the novels

[Gaijin42]

No, there were not wierding modules in the book.

The "wierding way" was the kick ass kung-fu pranha-bindu shit the Bene Geserit did, sometimes with the voice added in.

Stilgar refers to the wierding way after Jessica kicks his ass when Paul and Jessica escape, and they had no funky equipment with them at that point.

The whole modules, and muadd'ib being a "killing word" was totally made up for the movie

Re:It wouldn't surprise me...

[bravehamster]

Yeah, yeah, I knew as I soon as I submitted it that someone would comment on that. What I should have said was "Hollywood, which is not very well known for risk-taking or being offensive, has since 9/11 become so annoyingly non-offensive and cautious about certain things that it's actually starting to offend me." Better? ;)

Re:No movie to compare to

[br0ck]

More Spoilers...

It was NOT [space.com] supposed to be the last book. He died before he was finished. Brian (his son) and Kevin Anderson have done a number of prequels, and are doing the sequel [houseatreides.com] to Chapterhouse (book 7), after which they're going way back to cover the Butlerian Jihad series (3 books), which will be completed in about 2004. Their writing doesn't match Frank Herbert's, in my opinion, but it's always great to have more Dune books.

A) I think that for the sake of later plot development Teg and Sheena had to become involved with each other. Also, it was important that Teg's memories were recovered independant of Bene Geseret influence for his later independant decision making. Also, maybe this showed how the current Bene Geserit ways of imprinting were failing and had to change in the end.

B) I agree - except that Murbella probably couldn't have gotten to the spider queen without assistance.

C) I think that the 'farmers' that your thinking about were the face dancer couple that were prescient and trying to get control of the known universe using that knowledge and the the null capsule filled with all the Tleilaxu gholas.

D) When Duncan guided he, Sheeana, & Scytale to the uncharted universe they escaped them. This actually is a cool finish because it shows that independant decision is the best thing humans have, and this seems to me to be a decent resolution to the series.

Re:"Dune" the Movie was on last night.

[Anonymous Coward]

What you saw was the Lynch version + additional scenes. The lack of blue on blue eyes between scenes is because they weren't colored in. Those scenes were deleted from the theatrical release.

As for the other things *shrug* IMHO Lynch's version was amazing.