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Director Peter Berg has updated MTV on his plans for his feature film version of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci fi novel Dune.
In addition to what we learned in April and in August, Berg has now confirmed the studio will be aiming at a “hard PG-13″ rating with the potential for more than one film.
“There’s definitely a franchise potential,” Berg said, calling Josh Zetumer’s 200 page script a “a massive epic.” He confirms that his team now has to “figure out how we can beat [the script] into something manageable without offending the purists, filmmakers have struggled [in the past] because it’s a very complicated book to crack.”
It should be noted because the script is still being worked, a green-light has yet to be given by Paramount Pictures. If and when Paramount give the go ahead, it is doubtful the film will make it to screens before 2011/2012.
The reboot of Dune remains in the early stages. The script hasn’t been finalized and a green-light has yet to be given.
Nonetheless, director Peter Berg (Hancock / The Kingdom / The Rundown) has spoken about his vision at the Television Critics Association press tour, explaining that the new film will be different to both the original 1984 David Lynch version and the 2000 Syfy miniseries Children of Dune.
A new feature film based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci fi novel Dune may be just around the corner.
You may wonder why studios would consider making a new Dune film after David Lynch’s attempt in 1984 was such a monumental box office flop. The long answer would probably include reference to the Sci Fi Channel’s Emmy award winning Children of Dune mini-series – but the short answer would simply be “Peter Berg”.
Although the new Dune has yet to receive the green-light, Peter Berg is attached to the project as Director. Berg’s superhero flick Hancock (with Will Smith) was a Box Office smash, raking in $624M worldwide. It goes without saying that film studio’s have a truck load more confidence in someone who recently helmed a film that is now the 38th highest grossing film of all time.
Dune was announced more than a year ago but we haven’t heard much since then. That is, until yesterday when i09 posted an interview with Dune producer Kevin Misher.
Misher told i09 that Dune is a reboot rather than a remake, and confirmed that they are presently working on moving ahead in the near future.
“We’re working on the script right now. We’re going to turn it in shortly. The script is coming in, we’re hoping to get a green light shortly,” Misher said.
Despite the fact that the last collaboration between Kevin Misher and Peter Berg was also a box office flop (The Rundown), we tend to think that if the script is a good one, Berg’s success on Hancock should almost guarantee his production company ‘Film 44′ will get a nod from Paramount to move forward on Dune.
