Will anyone show up for Dune?
Will anyone show up for Dune? It could play like Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, which earned years of frothing anticipation from movie nerds and Film Twitter folk only to play to comparatively empty auditoriums when general audiences didn't care about an R-rated, 2.75-hour, action-lite sequel to a cult sci-fi classic that flopped 35 years prior. David Lynch's previous Dune earned just $31 million domestic on a $40 million budget in 1984. I don't know how much this Dune cost, but it'll make a difference if the film cost closer to Mortal Engines ($100 million, but with no stars) than Blade Runner 2049 ($155 million).
Dune may also struggle with "John Carter Syndrome," whereby an adaptation of a groundbreaking work of sci-fi literature looks and feels derivative to general audiences thanks to decades of popular sci-fi flicks that essentially ripped it off after-the-fact.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/08/06/dune-star-wars-avatar-lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-aquaman-eternals-twilight-hunger-games-warner-bros-box-office/
it will either be slightly better than BR2049 and the John Carter/Valerian etc late to their own party type SF films - 300m ww
Or
1.2b ww
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