by , 12:00 PM EST, March 21st, 2003
Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Apple's latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know what's new.
Frank Herbert's Dune saga is a SciFi classic that many believe is one of the crowning achievements of the genre. The story of Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides and his fight to control the very life-blood -- or Spice, as it is called -- of a galaxy spanning empire is so awe inspiring in its scope, meticulous in its detail, and breathtaking in its beauty that few believed it could ever be successfully brought to the silver screen.
In 1984, David Lynch made a valiant attempt to capture the essence of the first of the Dune books. The result was a movie that offers up many of the vistas described in the book but lacks much of the detail that is so much a part of the Dune experience. Still many believe that David Lynch's version is the best movie effort to date, even when compared to the SciFi Channel's mini-series directed by John Harrison and premiered in 2000.
Harrison's Dune was richer in detail but lost much of it grandeur due to being confined to the small screen. Many fans believe that Harrison's Dune is the best effort yet in portraying the nuances of Frank Herbert's world of the Worm.
This past Sunday, the SciFi channel showed the follow-on to Harrison's Dune: Children of Dune is directed by Greg Yaitanes and may be considered the best Dune story yet to make to film. SciFi Channel's Children of Dune glides past the intermediary book, Dune Messiah, and goes directly into telling the story of Paul Atreides' twin offspring and his now grown sister, Alia.
Check out the trailer for the Children of Dune on Apple's QuickTime Movie Trailer site. If you're a fan of Dune you will definitely find this trailer to your liking.
Other trailers of interest are:
That's it for this week. If you haven't seen it already, check out the Dream Catcher trailer. Creepy.