From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   From Slashdot.org ...   
      
        New Dune Movie Confirmed   
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        Peter Berg will be directing a new big-budget Dune movie   
        from Paramount. SFFMedia reports that 'although there   
        were some doubts that they were going to get it,' the   
        producers have secured the rights to the Dune novel from   
        Frank Herbert's estate and are looking for writers to   
        provide a screenplay that is true to the original text.   
        Can't wait!   
      
      
   Geez, "true to the original text"?!? That's going to be one AWFUL AWFUL   
   movie. Instead of the usual 2 hours, it'll have a run time of about 6   
   months and have many 4 hour blocks where the camera just points at the   
   sand.  :-\   
      
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