There’s a New Muad’Dib in Town
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?You may recall that Peter Berg was set to direct a new Dune movie; Berg having helmed Hancock, The Kingdom and the Friday Night Lights movie. No longer — apparently Pierre Morel is going to direct it, and he did Taken and the French parkour film District B13 (not at all to be confused with District 9). I’m trying to suss out how I feel about this. Most of my good will for Berg is based entirely on Friday Night Lights, although it’s worth noting that Berg left Dune to make the Battleship movie — yes, as in the Hasbro game Battleship. Now, I liked both Taken and District B13, but they were like candy bars — you enjoy them while you’re watching them, but not ultimately satisfying. But maybe Morel’s been stuck with action films and has some crazed auteur ready to Bene the fucking Gesserit out of Dune. I guess we’ll see. (Via /Film
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.