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⌈ Secret Post #5446 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Actually I don't think Dune is as big a gamble as you think. GoT proved there was taste for epics (but Dune actually had a damn ending), plus it's a famous cult classic and a reboot of a film to boot.

LOTR had no precursors.

[(Anonymous)]

LOTR is also a cult classic, and the previous Dune adaptation was a flop

[(Anonymous)]

Dune was a flop but endured as a cult classic. LOTR had a devoted but dusty fandom in the late nineties/early noughties.

[(Anonymous)]

There had been a moderately successful tv miniseries adaptation of Dune since the Lynch attempt, so it wasn't just resting on the previous movie.

[(Anonymous)]

LotR isn't a cult classic, it's just a classic.

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AYRT

Oh yeah, I'm not saying LOTR wasn't a huge breakthrough. It was. But as cult classics go, I think LOTR was much widely more read and beloved than Dune before any of those movies were made. And it had film adaptations before, just animated ones. It was far from an unknown property, and a lot of people had been hoping for a good live-action movie for decades. It was either going to be a disaster or it was going to hit BIG, no middle ground possible.

David Lynch's version of Dune bombed. It lost a shitload of money. (Unfairly, I think - there's a lot of weird choices there but it isn't that bad.) Taking another chance on it from a different director is still a leap of faith.