Here's some of their commentary on why those changes were made (sp) Archived Message
Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider on March 21, 2024, 10:00:56, in reply to "just saw it Tuesday, i have thoughts on this (long, possibly spoilery)"
“We knew it was coming, and [it was] one of the things we had to sort out when writing Dune: Part One,” Spaihts tells Inverse. “And one possibility was that the time jump would be the break, and the first film would carry Paul and Jessica all the way up to becoming members in the tribe and Jessica becoming a Reverend Mother, and then we would leap forward years.” Villeneuve and Spaihts ultimately realized it would have made Part One too overstuffed by putting “an extra unwieldy act on the tail of the movie.” So the first movie instead ends with the fall of House Atreides, and Paul and Jessica’s wary acceptance by the Fremen. To avoid confusing audiences by starting Part Two with a two-year time jump, this meant the sequel would have to do away with the jump altogether. And that would mean no Alia, at least not in the form book readers were excited for.“We were a little leery of that talking toddler, as a distraction in the middle of the film,” Spaihts said. “That’s a difficult thing to execute on film.” Instead, Alia appears in two forms: as an unborn fetus (who still talks to her mother psychically) and as an adult, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, in Paul’s visions. Arguably, a talking fetus is even stranger than a talking toddler, but Spaihts also says Alia wasn’t the main reason they skipped the time jump. “To allow such a long time lapse inevitably would sort of cool the passions of Part One,” Spaihts says. “If Duke Leto’s death were years and years ago, then it would lessen the lingering trauma that all the characters were feeling. We wanted the heat of their passion to be fresh and their wounds to be fresh.” I agree about the time jump but I don't have a problem with what they did with Alia. A talking toddler running around is very weird and hard to execute on screen IMO. Also mentioned Paul's child which I also agree with because it doesn't really make much of a dent in the story. Spaihts also acknowledged other characters cut when the timeline was condensed. Most notable is Leto Atreides, the child Paul and Zendaya have during his two years with the Fremen. But Spaihts points out that readers never meet Leto; he’s mentioned when Paul learns he’s been killed off-page. “He has grief about it, but has little time for that grief because in the middle of conducting a war,” Spaihts says. “So the arrival and departure of that off-stage baby barely ruffles the waters of the novel itself, and really would’ve been a peculiar distraction in the film. https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/dune-2-changes-timeline-time-jump-alia-jon-spahits-interview
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Message Thread:
- Late to the party with Dune Pt. 2...(sp) - JFG March 21, 2024, 9:27:20
- I would have liked more worm - TarheelIllini March 21, 2024, 12:36:52
- they can't really implement the stillsuits or full emphasis on water from the book - Potomac March 21, 2024, 12:02:12
- “Book”? There are 6 of them by Frank and, like, 20 more by his son - bbonb March 21, 2024, 10:45:33
- german* - bbonb March 21, 2024, 10:43:41
- just saw it Tuesday, i have thoughts on this (long, possibly spoilery) - illiniranger March 21, 2024, 9:53:24
- I think this version was more accurate to the book then the Lynch version. - ibdoc March 21, 2024, 9:38:02
- I've never seen the David Lynch version. What resolution were you waiting for? - CanHartlebHireSnider March 21, 2024, 9:29:51
- (sp) - JFG March 21, 2024, 9:33:42
- Re: (sp) - SurfTheBoneyard March 21, 2024, 12:55:00
- Re: (sp) - ibdoc March 21, 2024, 9:45:01
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