Review: Why Avatar is re-packaged Frank Herbert's Dune

The latest movie Avatar by James Cameroon has a similar story line to the Dune novel by Frank Herbert published in 1965. The movie looks more like a tribute to the great Frank Herbert than a classic movie in its own right.

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Book Review: The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe - Blogcritic

The Woman in the Dunes is a flat out great novel. Abe has certainly carved his niche along side the likes of Kafka and Beckett with this one.

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Permaculture 101 - Lessons from the novel Dune

Frank Herbert, author of Dune, used his writings to spread a spiritual and permaculture-style land revival vision in his stories of the desert planet Arrakis... In the appendix to the book, Herbert lays out Pardot Keynes grand plan for the greening of the desert Arrakis. Remarkably accurate to permaculture principles and written in 1965...

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New Dune: “Faster, More Modern,” Compared to the ‘84 Version

“I’ve been reading [Dune] over and over again – well, I’m 45 now, so for 30 years,” Morel says. His film “is all about the first book. I’m trying to be very respectful to the original novel.”

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Pierre Morel Will Direct "Dune" Remake

French filmmaker Pierre Morel, who directed the hit actioner “Taken” and the upcoming “From Paris With Love,” has signed on to helm new Paramount Pictures’ version of “Dune“, the sci-fi classic novel by Frank Herbert.

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Paramount prepares to scale Dune

Paramount Pictures has appointed Taken helmsman Pierre Morel to tackle a new cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune, Variety reports. Paramount will work from the draft but bring in a new scribe to finish the job of breathing celluloid life into "the biggest-selling sci-fi novel" which remains "enormously popular"

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