Just saw the new, final trailer for Dune. I have a sick feeling the Lynch movie is going to turn out to have been the better, more authentic adaptation (other than Villeneuve's thopter design, which is perfect).
The trailer is two and a half minutes, two minutes and twenty-four seconds of which is characters doing things they never did in the book while saying things that are complete invention on the part of the screenwriters.
A couple roles are better cast in the new movie. A couple are drastically worse. Leaving the vast majority of the new casting as a lateral move at best.
A large part of the original novel is internal. That's tough to translate to the screen. I think Lynch deseves credit for having the balls to allow multiple characters to have internal narration, which is pulled directly from the book. I think it works as the least inelegant solution out of a bunch of unworkable options. And without that internal narration, I'm afraid that what Villeneuve is stuck with is a lot of eye-rolling audience hand-holding, by having characters awkwardly explain the plot and their inner thoughts to each other. We already see some of that happening in the trailers, and it fucking sucks.
This last trailer is by far the worst of the trailers they've released so far. I'd probably be more optimistic if they'd released them in the opposite order, but oh well. I think what happened is that they feel the need to show something in this final trailer that they haven't shown before, but they've already run out of good stuff.
Then the trailer ends with a quote from Collider (are you fucking kidding me? Collider?) which says, "This is the new Star Wars; the new Lord of the Rings." Saying shit like that is the kiss of death, assholes. Which, okay, those idiots said it, it's Collider... but then WB has to be dumb enough to put it in the trailer for everyone to see.
Fucking disheartening.