Starting from scratch on Dune

There’s a great deal of people jumping back and forth from the Frank Herbert written novel Dune that’s trying to get it’s feet off the ground enough to really start getting out of development hell. Unfortunately the project took a few steps back, keeping itself in development hell as Taken and From Paris With Love director Pierre Morel completely scrapped the draft of the adaptation that Peter Berg penned for Paramount Pictures.

Here’s a snippet of an interview that IGN had with the director pertaining to this project.:

We’re starting from scratch,” says Morel. “Peter had an approach which was not mine at all, and we’re starting over again. I don’t think we’re going to keep any elements of the Peter Berg script. It was good, actually. It was interesting. It was just not our vision. I can’t tell you right now [who's writing it with me], it’s going to be official next week. The deals are not done!”

“Dune is such a huge, huge project,” he says. “It’s big, it’s challenging, it’s long-term — we’re only starting. We have to rewrite the script, we have to develop a whole universe. It’s going to be a long thing, so who knows. But I’m passionate about Dune so I’d love to do it next.”

Since this project has sunk back into the depths of the drawing board, one can only predict when and if this will ever really get off the ground.