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Originally Posted by Frazod
How is it suddenly such a difficult thing to explain? They were able to adequately explain it in the '84 movie with simple voiceover narration. I mean, it's not like Alia shoots out of Jessica's box and strangles the Baron with her own umbilical cord. Everybody knows who she is and why she is the way she is. We're not talking the end of Interstellar here.
And let's not forget, Alia is a far more important character than Chani, and they reduced her to an unborn embryo. Chani is nothing more than a background character - Paul's eventual concubine and the mother of his children. THAT'S IT. No special abilities, no great intelligence, no strategic acumen; just a faithful, loyal, mundane woman who loves her man. Period. But not in ZENDAYA'S CHANIVERSE! She must be a superninja****, and take up half the movie!
God I hate this ****ing movie. Every time I think about it I hate it more. ****!  |
Alia ends up more important.
But in Dune she's not.
In Messiah and Children she moves past Chani (for fairly obvious spoilery reasons) but Dune is about ascension of Paul from Paul to Muad'dib. Chani was clearly more critical to that process.
Now should Messiah get made, there's still PLENTY of time to right any wrongs here. It can be done in the first half hour pretty easily. But they had no way to know if this was going to have legs beyond the first book. Hell, they STILL don't. I'm not convinced Messiah (and certainly not Children) translate well to film at all.
I really don't think they should make anymore movies. I don't think they can tell the rest of that story without losing...everyone. By God Emperor, any sense of scale would be completely off the rails. We've gone literally thousands of years into the future and things have...uh...taken a turn to say the least.
I understand trying to make this as "Dune Only" film universe and if that's your intent, Alia really has very little utility.