Dune Messiah Movie may be greenlit.

[Ryujin]

That Quebec French accent is the equivalent of the thicker New York accent if you will. Not everyone speaks like that. Lots of accents over the territory.

Now, imagine the idiocy of a Canadian being taught Parisienne French, rather than Quebecois. They might as well have taught me Algerian French.

 

[GreyLord]

Oh, I definitely think that boy in a worm suit would be a bridge too far.

But Worm CGI...that could be cool. Plus...the 4th book and beyond has never been done.

The Bigger question I would think is if they could actually do books 5 and 6 without getting an X or NC-17 or PG-18 rating.

 

[tleilaxu ii]

The problem with Paul’s inner voice is that it’s hard to give it any objective truth value. I mean, Pol Pot and Idi Amin had inner voices, too.

Edit: I mean, Paul’s messianic status is never really confirmed or denied; from a purely human perspective we are forced to consider whether he is delusional or psychotic.

there's separate issues here. his 'messianic' status is tautological. the fact that the criteria to be the messiah was planted in a cynical way, and that they were enacted in a cynical way either matters completely or not at all but if we're just talking about fulfilling the criteria that was laid out, then he is in fact the fremen messiah.

a separate issue is his power of prescience, which seems to be something like 4-dimensional awareness - ie 'time' is a place he can look here or there at and choose from various possibilities (though ironically, knowing these possibilities robs him of 'choice' as we understand it). for such a being, stuff like means/ends, cause/effect, intention/utility, etc (which are vital moral concerns for us and other entities that can not foresee all consequences) don't apply. its hard to see how the morality of such a being would be comprehensible to others.

the third issue is that from our perspective there is no way to know if someone claiming such a position is legitimate or just another murderous dictator. however, the books do seem to answer in the affirmative that he had such power, and thus the moral calculus for him is so different that we can't really meaningfully judge it. there's a quote in the book somewhere, to paraphrase -- save us from the futures muad'dib didn't choose.