Would the 1973 Dune movie butterfly Star Wars?
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DUNE is a far more literate story than Star Wars. Lucas would be fine.
The target audiences are quite different so you probably would still have a market for it. Mind, lucas might have ripped off some bits from it and if new special effects had to be designed for Dune, Star Wars might have benefited from them.
Star wars is a space opera, DUNE is a space opera wearing it's smoking jacket.
star wars is acertain japanese film with robots and laser, Dune is a muslim wet dream.
yeah, I s'pose the same kind of crowd that dug 2001 would be into the Dune movie
I thought Star Wars was based on Flash Gordon and the Japanese movie 'Hidden Fortress'?
A Dune in 1973 would have been more successful in a pre Star Wars world.
Star wars WAS based n those two sources.DUNE is a more literate story for a different audience.
Glen
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Movie making especially on an original script is very perturbable, so yes, an arlier Dune could butterfly away Star Wars,ut it need not. More interesting would be thedirect effects a 1973 Dune movie would have on the development history of Star Wars. However to answer that would depend on how the Dune movie itself did. A successful Dune may lead to earlier and more support for production of Star Wars. A Dune flop might kill or at least seriously delay development of Star Wars. A modestly successful Dune might have no effect at all.
one of the things that made Star Wars a smash hit was the technology used to make it... particularly the space battles, with fighters and ships zipping around and blasting each other; basically, it was just sheer fun to watch it. Dune has a complete lack of space battles (and space ship scenes in general). CGI is a long ways off yet, so the tech used to make the giant sand worms and the rest isn't going to be as convincing. Dune is a fine story, but it's just not visually as cool as SW. More or less, I'd think you'd have sci fi fans liking both movies, but SW would be far more popular...
I keep saying, DUNE is too literary a story to compete with the sheer bubblegummy fun of Star Wars.
In and of itself Star Wars is about as erudite and mature as a kid's comic book or a saturday morning cartoon, but hey that works, because on a certain level many of us including me still get off on that crap.
list of similarities between Dune and Star Wars
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/dune.html
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/dune.html
if we talk here about Jodorwsky DUNE
that would be a EPIC MIND BLOWING EXPERIENCE of a 12 hours movie
with Design of Chris Foss, Moebius and H.R. Giger
against that Star Wars look like cheape Italian copycat movie like "Star Crash" or "The Humanoid".
however if Jodorwsky DUNE is success is another question
If yes, every major Hollywood studio jump on wagon and make a Sci-Fi movie
George Lucas will get his Chance, but will he be successful or label as a copycat by the critics ?
that would be a EPIC MIND BLOWING EXPERIENCE of a 12 hours movie
with Design of Chris Foss, Moebius and H.R. Giger
against that Star Wars look like cheape Italian copycat movie like "Star Crash" or "The Humanoid".
however if Jodorwsky DUNE is success is another question
If yes, every major Hollywood studio jump on wagon and make a Sci-Fi movie
George Lucas will get his Chance, but will he be successful or label as a copycat by the critics ?
Similarities that may not exist if there is a 1973 Dune, as one presumes
the Star Wars script then used would try to avoid things that could
be seen as just copying the Dune movie.
maybe Lucas bypassed star wars and go straight to raiders of the lost ark. considering the movie before was american graffiti, he might not be know nowaday as a sci-fi director.