Under the Wheels Episode 44: DUNE

Matt works with Gabe to see if Dune is just fine or if it’s
a Shiny and Chrome. Topics include adaptations of novels in novel forms; the
history and failings of Dune adaptations; relating Kojima to Dune; a case for
Dave Bautista as the best wrestler-turned-actor; how Dune takes science fiction
and evolves it to Fantasy; why book-to-movie adaptations are not a binary good
or bad thing but more of a non-lateral scale; the problem with four-hour
movies, strange “director’s cut” and “extended cut” profit releases, and part
one-part two pacing issues; the surprising box-office history of Blade Runner
and The Thing; some good John Carpenter talk; how actors who ask for certain
regards or are critical of work they are in are seen as difficult by Hollywood
(and Matt’s) standards somewhat without merit or bad marketing; if Gabe and
Matt made Dune; the return of good diffused fog effects; and Martin Scorsese’s
take on how to make a proper superhero in New York.

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