slashfilm.com - 10/28/2009
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A new and curious rumour suggests that Peter Berg is no longer attached to the next big screen adaptation of Dune and the studio are shopping around for a new director. Normally, when rumours like this have something to them it’s been after a fair bit of radio silence but it ...
pajiba.com - 10/28/2009
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pajiba.com —
robert-pattinddason.jpg Pajiba Exclusive: An Update on the Dune
Remake No. Robert Pattinson Is Not In It. Yet....
/ Dustin Rowles Trade News | October 27, 2009 | Comments (42) There have been a number of rumors flying around the last two years about a ...
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cinematical.com - 10/28/2009
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cinematical.com —
Last March, the trades confirmed that Peter Berg
was the latest director brave enough (or foolish enough)...
to tackle a new adaptation of Frank Herbert's legendary Dune . News has been scarce since, though just last month Berg was assuring MTV that ...
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Is Peter Berg Departing 'Dune'?
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Need... To... Breathe...
my new plaid pants —
... the book has beaten battered and bruised many a great filmmaker over the years - I'd say "poor David Lynch" but at least he managed to get one made, unlike so many - so I need to pull myself back from the ledge of making myself too excited over what is basically a whisper of a rumor of a rumor... BUT STILL. If this happened I would go blind from the orgasms. Via Slash: ...
DUNE to be remade without Peter Berg?
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... film we heard about back in September. His IMDb page also lists a bevy of other in-development projects, including LONE SURVIVOR and COCAINE COWBOYS. Berg’s biggest directorial hit so far has been HANCOCK, but his resume also includes interesting work like THE KINGDOM and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. Personally, I’ve always preferred his acting, but that’s just me.
So, GATWers, if Berg is out, who do you want in?
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