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Although I haven't seen them, it thrills me that there are so many different adaptations and attempted adaptations of Dune they are referred to by the names of the people behind them. I feel like this forces us to treat them as interpretations and not force any single one to bear the burden of being the definitive version.
It won't happen, but I'd love to see a profusion of such alternate takes on adapted and reimagined stories from other sources too, and blunt singularity away. Of course I would love to see numerous new stories too and that's one reason it won't be happening soon, with not enough resources made available to support both. Although I think tepid franchising and restrictive copyright and licensing are the bigger obstacles there, adapting text to film does seem to be in a boom at the moment. Every year I worry that's about to burst, and nearly as much that the adaptations we get are unsatisfactory.
No pleasing, for now.
It won't happen, but I'd love to see a profusion of such alternate takes on adapted and reimagined stories from other sources too, and blunt singularity away. Of course I would love to see numerous new stories too and that's one reason it won't be happening soon, with not enough resources made available to support both. Although I think tepid franchising and restrictive copyright and licensing are the bigger obstacles there, adapting text to film does seem to be in a boom at the moment. Every year I worry that's about to burst, and nearly as much that the adaptations we get are unsatisfactory.
No pleasing, for now.
