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9 months, 2 weeks ago

How to read the Three Body Problem book series that inspired the Netflix show

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Previously said to be unfilmable, The Three-Body Problem trilogy, written by Chinese author …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dune was considered 'unfilmable' for a long time. Then came Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser

ABC

For a long time, Frank Herbert's unwieldy sci-fi space opera epic Dune was considered unfilmable. And now it's here, almost 60 years since the book first came out, and Dune: Part Two has landed with an almighty roar. Greig Fraser with director Denis Villeneuve on the set of Dune: Part Two. "There was a long time where I couldn't, so …

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10 months, 1 week ago

The power of filmmaking: How Denis Villeneuve created the world of Dune

Hindustan Times

One of the most revered texts in the canon of science fiction is Frank Herbert’s Dune. For the first big scene with the sandworm swallowing the mining vehicle, Villeneuve hooked the ornithopter onto a crane and spun it 30 feet over the ground to simulate the flight pattern, using giant fans to create wind and blow sand everywhere. Special Effects …

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2 years ago

New this week: ‘White Noise,’ 21 Savage and Kennedy Honors

Associated Press

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise” has long been said to be “unfilmable.” But Noah Baumbach’s energetic movie, streaming Friday on Netflix, makes a spirited argument for its adaptation. When an “airborne toxic event” consumes their …

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2 years ago

Q&A: Baumbach finds a cinematic playground in ‘White Noise’

Associated Press

It was early in the pandemic when filmmaker Noah Baumbach, for the first time in his career, found himself wondering what he was going to do next. Weeks later, when the world shut down, Baumbach picked up Don DeLillo’s 1985 classic “ White Noise,” about a professor of Hitler studies at a generic Midwestern college, his blended family and the …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Amazon places $1 Billion bet on "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy that was once "Unfilmable"

Firstpost

The programme, which launches on Prime Video on Friday, tries to capitalise on the enormous and enduring attraction of books. It is a key component of Amazon’s effort to differentiate itself from Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max — whose own “Game of Thrones” prequel recently debuted — in the “streaming wars,” and it is funded by the company’s multibillionaire founder …

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2 years, 9 months ago

How ‘Dune’ went from ‘unfilmable’ to a major Oscars player

LA Times

Adapted from Frank Herbert’s beloved book, the sci-fi epic “Dune” was a movie many never expected they’d see. Others tried to bring Herbert’s complex world to the screen, but it was director Denis Villeneuve who finally delivered a critical and commercial success. “Dune” earned 10 nominations for the 2022 Oscars: cinematography, costume design, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, …

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3 years, 2 months ago

‘Dune’ movie review: Denis Villeneuve serves up awe-inspiring, yet morose epic

The Hindu

It is finally here, after seeing the trailers forever, it is glorious fun to watch Denis Villeneuve’s spectacular imagining of the iconic Frank Herbert science-fiction novel Dune. In the ‘70s Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky proposed a version with Salvador Dali playing the Emperor and psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd providing the music. Dune Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Dune movie review: Denis Villeneuve, Timothee Chalamet sci-fi fantasy is high-stakes filmmaking at its finest

Firstpost

Director Denis Villeneuve finds a way to marry the big and small, the political and the personal, the spectacle with a film also saying something about our present. Language: English The first thing one might notice about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is how everything seems huge in it. What is miraculous is also the way director Villeneuve finds a way to …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Spice World: WIRED Traces the Dune Legacy

Wired

Dune, famously, is an unfilmable piece of work. Lots of important people die or try to kill each other, and they’re all tethered to about eight entangled subplots. But as Denis Villeneuve, the director of the latest attempt to put Dune on the screen, says of the undertaking, “We are bound to try to do the impossible.” Frank Herbert’s 1965 …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Foundation: The 'unfilmable' sci-fi epic now on our screens

BBC

Foundation: The 'unfilmable' sci-fi epic now on our screens Apple TV+ Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are among the greatest sci-fi books ever written – but no one has dared to film them, until now. More "I remember James Cameron just looked at me and said, 'That one's hard'," Goyer tells BBC Culture in a video call. I hope we get …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Sandman: The ‘unfilmable’ Neil Gaiman masterpiece that made comics cool again

The Independent

At a time when comic book movies rule the box office, it makes sense that one of the most beloved series in recent years gets an adaptation, courtesy of Netflix. In a way, Sandman is a timeless tale … And, as you’d expect, many of the stories within the wider narrative deal with how we dream, how dreams affect reality …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Watchmen at 10: The fascinating story of how the 'unfilmable' comic book series finally made it to the big screen