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Rosario T. Calabria on January 14, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Recently, Pierre Morel (Taken, From Paris With Love) was interviewed by MTV and offered his plans for Dune, which he says will be “very respectful” to Frank Herbert’s original novel. Morel says that they start the writing process within the next few weeks and that he would like for the film — which he calls a re-interpretation of the original novel — to be the next he does. Here’s an excerpt.
“Like many people, I was not fully satisfied with David Lynch’s movie in 1984,” Morel told us in a recent phone interview. “I do respect David, and I think his interpretation and vision was interesting, but not what we [fans] expected. And I thought I’d give it a chance, try to do this, make it faster and more modern. I think that now, in 2010, we have the technology to achieve much more than David could do twenty-five years ago. I think it will be cool to try something different.”
For more, including Morel’s thoughts on how the clothes and future technology will be represented, head on over the jump.
Continue reading Pierre Morel Talks Dune
