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Nowadays those extended, heavily produced, highly anticipated trailers are more about collecting data and gathering opinions than "teasing" fans. For them, Villeneuve + Dune is already enough. As a director, when your movie is already filmed and under editing wraps, it's important to show producers how high the hype is. It's about how both your director vision and the producers goal will meet.
That what failed with Lynch's Dune, director wanted absolute control, producers got the infamous final cut instead, results were the 1984 films as it is, with Lynch disowing the film and DeLaurentis doing his edit while going lengths explaining the lore.
As both a Herbert's Dune and a Villeneuve fan, I couldn't be more happy after watching the trailer, I just hope the movie won't be a box-office bomb so that we'll have more Dune stuff. And by Dune stuff, I mean maybe more first book quality than, as
Feanor
explained, Herbert later works which are not as interesting, unless you have a hardon about cheesy, convoluted, weird-but-not-that-weird soap opera.
That what failed with Lynch's Dune, director wanted absolute control, producers got the infamous final cut instead, results were the 1984 films as it is, with Lynch disowing the film and DeLaurentis doing his edit while going lengths explaining the lore.
As both a Herbert's Dune and a Villeneuve fan, I couldn't be more happy after watching the trailer, I just hope the movie won't be a box-office bomb so that we'll have more Dune stuff. And by Dune stuff, I mean maybe more first book quality than, as
Feanor
explained, Herbert later works which are not as interesting, unless you have a hardon about cheesy, convoluted, weird-but-not-that-weird soap opera.- 1
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