Dune Heads Back to the Screen

Posted by admin in News on April 4th, 2008

Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science fiction tale Dune has been announced as a Paramount Pictures project. Peter Berg (The Kingdom) will direct with no writers or performers as yet named. Kevin Misher will produce and is said to have spent a year obtaining the rights from the Herbert Estate.

Dune has not only spawned numerous sequels, but it has provided his son Brian with a career as Brian Herbert has continued the saga, cowriting alongside Kevin J. Anderson (Seven Sons Saga). Both men are co-producing the film. Also along for the ride are producers Richard Rubinstein, Sarah Aubrey, John Harrison and Mike Messina.

This will be the third adaptation, following 1984’s David Lynch film for Universal and the Sci-Fi Channel’s miniseries approach in 2000. The latter was produced by Rubinstein who also oversaw the sequel, Children of Dune.