{"id":698,"date":"2008-03-25T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T11:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2008-03-24T12:29:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T16:29:59","slug":"oh-not-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Not Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variety reports that <I>Dune<\/I> is going to be <del datetime=\"2008-03-24T16:21:21+00:00\">flogged to death<\/del> remade again, this time by Paramount Pictures.  Peter Berg (<I>The Kingdom<\/I>) has been hired to direct, and the project has been farmed to writers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sort of mystified by Hollywood&#8217;s moth-like attraction to the conflagration that is <I>Dune<\/I>.  The planning meetings had to have gone something like, &#8220;The movie was made in 1984 and it sucked, and then a miniseries was made and it, uh&#8230;sucked less.  So let&#8217;s try to make something that sucks hardly at all!&#8221;  Yeah, good luck with that, guys.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/VR1117982560.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/forevergeek.com\/\">ForeverGeek<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety reports that Dune is going to be flogged to death remade again, this time by Paramount Pictures. Peter Berg (The Kingdom) has been hired to direct, and the project has been farmed to writers. I&#8217;m sort of mystified by Hollywood&#8217;s moth-like attraction to the conflagration that is Dune. The planning meetings had to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}