David Spain wrote:
And let's not forget how well Hollywood treats the classics whose authors are
long gone and cannot defend their legacy.

Okay, maybe making Arkady Darrel a transsexual and giving The Mule
actual mule ears didn't go over well with purists, but today's audiences
demand their movies have an edge...and the destruction of Trantor by The
Great Space Squid is really something to see. ;-)
Seriously, there's not a hell of a lot of edge-of-your-seat action in
the books, which makes the choice of 3D seem odd in my opinion.
Dune may also be filmed in 3D in the futu
http://scifiwire.com/2010/02/new-dun...could-be-m.php
But that does have a lot of action in it, and the Sandworms would be fun
to see in 3D.

Pat