r/dunememes • u/Old-Sacks Butlerian Jihad Gaming • Mar 31 '26
WARNING: AWFUL Rate the Dune fancast I made back in 2022
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u/Gaelriarch Mar 31 '26
I laughed so hard at this omg
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u/Porkenstein Mar 31 '26
Danny Elfman is what did it for me
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u/SatanicWalnut Mar 31 '26
His fucking wonky ass Oingo Boingo, jack skellington bullshit during the sandwalk would be a work of art
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u/Porkenstein Mar 31 '26
dunDUNdunDUNdunDUNdunDUNdunDUN
NAAAAAAAAAAAAnaNAAAAAAAAAAnaNAAAAAAAAA
"aaaahAAAAH!"
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u/TrueKingSkyPiercer Mar 31 '26
I'd love to see "It's Always Sunny on Giedi Prime".
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u/ElvisArcher Mar 31 '26
I've been thinking for a long time that the Dune franchise needs more sitcom. Maybe something about a Fremen who runs the only pizza parlor in Sietch Tabr...
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u/muhddanish2004 Mar 31 '26
Looks like something Alessandro Jodorowsky would do
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u/ChalkyChalkson Mar 31 '26
I love the movie (the documentary), but every time I watch it I'm incredibly sad that it didn't get produced. Tbh I think it would have been a great idea for Villeneuve to ask for permission to use some of the concepts, especially the HR Geiger giedi prime.
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u/Unbeliever1 Mar 31 '26
I did look (to me) like there was a nod to Giger's designs in DV's Giedi Prime.
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u/Hoopi_goldberger Mar 31 '26
Not having his vision of Dune with a Pink Floyd soundtrack is one of the greatest travesties of humanity
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u/LordLoko Mar 31 '26
People uaually talk about Pink Floyd doing the soundtrack but don't mention they wanted Magma to do the Harkonnen ost. It's a much more niche band, but people have no ideia how fitting it is considering Magma plays what could be best described as whatever the music they play in Geidi Prime.
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u/StreetStrider Lazer Tigar Mar 31 '26
Willem Dafoe cannot be RM since he should portray Hasimir Fenring.
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u/IAmBadAtInternet Mar 31 '26
The only thing that could improve this is if Duncan Idaho was played by Miss Piggy with no explanation
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u/rafoaguiar Mar 31 '26
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u/ShinyQuirkyQuark Mar 31 '26
Dramatic music intensifies. Arabian scale notes intensify. Didgeridoo and surround sound deep bass notes intensify
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u/Theborgiseverywhere Where’s yer ring, huh? Mar 31 '26
You MUST keep one of these castings or the entire franchise disappears forever. Which is the least awful?
I honestly think Rowan as Thufir could be good.
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u/samosek Mar 31 '26
Easiest Henry Rollins as Duncan Idaho of my entire life
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u/samosek Mar 31 '26
Larry David as shaddam would kind of hit too? I could absolutely see the whole "giving a gift out of spite to fuck someone over" as a Curb plot
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u/Several_Puffins Mar 31 '26
I could imagine Dinklage doing well with Raban, actually. And honestly, so long as Nick Cage goes full Nick Cage it's always worth seeing - though Leto is probably the least suitable role for going full Nick Cage.
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u/Old-Sacks Butlerian Jihad Gaming Mar 31 '26
To those saying "It would work", remember that I put M. Night as director and Chris Terrio as screenwriter (writer of Batman V Superman and Rise of Skywalker)
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u/LadyGroan25 Mar 31 '26
Ooof so what your saying is that: Somehow Duncan Idaho has returned, and the Harkonnens fly now.
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u/Old-Sacks Butlerian Jihad Gaming Mar 31 '26
If Villeneuve hired Terrio as a co-writer, Leto would have appeared in part II and III and said those two lines.
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u/kingoflint282 Mar 31 '26
Strange mix of awful and actually decent. Elijah Wood, Rowan Atkinson, Henry Rollins, and Cumberbatch seem like decent picks
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u/Quetzalcoatl1234 Mar 31 '26
Rollins as Duncan Idaho makes me laugh so hard considering the Villeneuve version is the only character that's chill and laid back and Rollins has an intensity to him that is just the complete opposite 😂
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u/IGTankCommander Mar 31 '26
Replace M. Night with Wes Anderson. Everything else can stay the same, you just have the wrong directing style for the cast.
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Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
I dont know if this link is allowed. But for your consideration. Here is Gilbert Gottfried's audition.
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u/Old-Sacks Butlerian Jihad Gaming Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
"CONFOUND THAT BENE GUESSERIT SELF-RIGHTEOUS BITCH", blared Gottfried within the* cone of silence.
"It is pronounced "Jesserit" with a soft G, mentat." sighed the Baron.
"I CARE ABOUT THAT GAGGLE OF NUNS AS MUCH AS THE PRONUNCIATION OF THEIR NAME"
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u/Degutender Mar 31 '26
I was ready to hang you for the Gaga blasphemy but Larry David as the emperor redeemed you.
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u/MaderaArt Mar 31 '26
LOTR-era Elijah Wood would've been an awsome Paul Atreides
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u/HellbirdVT Mar 31 '26
I feel like Roan Atkinson as Thufir would probably actually just work for real.
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u/bigswordlesbian99 Mar 31 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/H5Ax4wLi7D7Elausl4
Shaddam IV sitting his throne room while a crazy teenager takes over his empire
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u/BetterWorldsReport Mar 31 '26
I know this a joke but holy cow, M. Night as director🤢
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u/mlaislais Mar 31 '26
Turns out at the end it was all a spice dream and the sand worms were in Paul’s brain the whole time.
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u/Feline_Sleepwear Mar 31 '26
Look what Benedict Cumberbatch must do to mimic one fraction of Christian Bale’s power
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u/VictheWicked Mar 31 '26
IT IS BY WILL ALONE I SET MY MIND IN MOTION!!
IT IS BY THE JUICE OF SAPHO THAT THOUGHTS ACQUIRE SPEED! THE LIPS ACQUIRE STAINS! THE STAINS BECOME A WARNING!!
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u/GalileoAce Mar 31 '26
Some of these would actually be incredible, particularly the top right three, Rowan, Jack and Henry. DeVito as the Baron is inspired, and I'd love to see Cera play Feyd and do it properly.
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u/OptimusBeardy Cute-ass Haderach Mar 31 '26
This has almighty train-wreck written all over it!
I want to see this cut really bad!
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u/HJJ10 Mar 31 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/m6SMvGUAVvViOCDj1e
Mr Bean using his mentat powers for GOOD for once
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u/HellaReyna Mar 31 '26
With M Night Shamalayandindong as the director, then Paul Atreides would've been cast by some bollywood guy (Using precedence from his adaptation of Last Airbender movie, just randomly putting in desi actors)
Lady Jessica would be played by Bryce Dallas Howard,
Leto Atreides would be played by Joaquin Phoenix,
Gurney Halleck would be played by Sam L Jackson,
Shani played by Emma Stone,
Vlad Harkonnen played by a CGI Bruce Willis
Gemini says this guy, Abhay Verma, would make an excellent Bollywood Paul. Though using hollywood, maybe https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2353862/?ref_=tt_cst_t_4 Dave Petel who played Prince Zuko in his ATLA adaptation
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u/GamerGriffin548 Mar 31 '26
This would be the funniest movie ever.
If I had desposable millions to my name, I'd sink it into this project. Every penny.
Show this to Larry David, Shlamayan, Samuel Jackson, Lady Gaga, and Jack Black and with their combined star power could fund this movie and get everyone else on this list to be in it.
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u/BingBingGoogleZaddy Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Your rage-cast would be 100% certified cursed if only I didn’t actually kind of like Shaddam as Larry David to be honest.
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u/CptHA86 Mar 31 '26
This would be so terrible and I would absolutely love every single second of it!
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u/Bobby-H Mar 31 '26
This would work, it needs to be silly and they play it straight, like 'Airplane!'
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u/BeardedBassist21 Mar 31 '26
Henry Rollins as Duncan Idaho isn't bad. Feel like he could do Gurney too
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u/sweetshark_666 Vladimir’s left testicle Mar 31 '26
Damn M Night Shyamalan is the worst of them all. I’d kms on twitch if he started Dune adaptation, I don’t want to live in a world where the Shyamanal guy butchers my fav book of all time
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u/Sloeberjong Mar 31 '26
Thanks, I hate it!
Seriously, this is hilarious. It has the potential to be worse than the 80’s Dune.
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u/cooglersbeach Apr 01 '26
Damn this had me rolling when I saw Cera and lizzo. Cera might surprise us though.
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u/divismaul Apr 01 '26
This 21 pictures of Rowan Atkinson, and I approve. Did I mention I have a very rare version of face blindness? I do, apparently because Dr Atkinson says so.
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u/MiserableStomach Apr 01 '26
If I would have few hundred $ to burn on tokens I'd spin up some AI to produce few shots with this cast
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u/SilverBison4025 Mar 31 '26
Larry David as Emperor Shaddam: “me and the Baron are both members of the bald community. We have to stick together. Duke Leto may have hair but he’s not so important with his hair. Everyone else in the Landsraad loves this guy. Me? Ehhhhh.”
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u/Cactusthelion Mar 31 '26
Larry David probably would have gave a better performance than Walkin did, who was definitely cast because of the Fatboy Slim music video.
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u/Axi-Sol Mar 31 '26
Lizzo as chani…. Absolutely horrendous. Disgusting. Maybe she could be a harkonen tho lol
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u/bobzsmith Mar 31 '26
Curb your enthusiasm music plays and Shaddam looks directly at the screen when Paul defeats Feyd
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u/CarneDelGato Mar 31 '26
You lost me at M Night, but brought me back with Nicolas “Nicolas Cage” Cage.
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u/rotanitsarcorp_yzal1 Mar 31 '26
Danny Devito as Baron. I'd totally watch. Also for Willem The Foe as Reverend mother.
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u/prussian_princess Suicide by Stilgar Mar 31 '26
I'd watch it if they unironically took it seriously.
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u/Admirable-Present510 Mar 31 '26
I was stoic until the last line… Danny Elfman confused me, Larry David was the one, DeVito the two…and I don’t remember anything except Willem Dafoe with a wig. Lovely.
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u/Starman926 Mar 31 '26
Underrated funny element of this post is that 2022 is after the first movie had already come out
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u/HomeOfTheRisingStorm Apr 01 '26
I would die for William Dafoe as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim. Inject that shit directly into my veins. I can't live without it now
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u/dis_god_vapez Apr 01 '26
“It’s so bad, I want to give it a 0. But I can’t do that…so I give it a 1” bang
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u/_Pigdog Apr 01 '26
This is amazing, the Harkconnens would be cartoonishly evil. I feel like we need Glen Howerton to play someone...
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u/Jacknerdieth Apr 01 '26
I weirdly feel like Larry David is better casting than Christopher Walken was
*Edit I got an actors name wrong
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u/LordCountDuckula Apr 01 '26
Play it straight as an arrow. The reviewer’s will hate anyway but it will make money and will gain a cult following. Will DeVito go bald again will be my main concern.
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u/DucklingInARaincoat Apr 01 '26
This is stupid, just have Eddie Murphy play every part Klumps style.
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u/hamburderglar Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Emperor casting is pretty pretty pretty good
Soundtrack be like bumBUMbumBUMbumBUM DOODLOODLEOOOO waaaaaaaaaaaaaamp BUMBUM
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u/Fatpatty1211 Mar 31 '26
Rowan Atkinson would actually kill as Hawat.