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Why would he know that the Bene Gesserit wanted him on the throne? It's Baron Harkonnen who he knows is scheming to achieve that. Paul already indicated in the film that Chani will come to understand the situation. The Atreides gave up Caladan for Arrakis. The bunker is on Arrakis because the nuclear weapons are of no use to House Atreides anywhere else.

They couldn't really have it play out like it did in the comics even if they wanted to, since the original show already did the Phoenix Saga and Jean's death and return.

Illyana appeared in one episode of the original animated series as Colossus' sister, but she didn't have powers, etc.

The 2018 rules changes cut time from the men's and pairs free programs so that they're the same length as women and dance, and as a result each lost an element; for men in was the eighth jumping pass (they now do seven, like the women) and for pairs it was the side-by-side spins.

A 1989-set neo noir about a discontented gym employee (Kristen Stewart), an aspirant bodybuilder (Katy O'Brian), and a heap of trouble that they become entangled in. This is, first and foremost, a visceral film, both in its sensuality and its bouts of explosive violence (one particular postmortem depiction drew audible gasps from the audience at the screening I attended). All of this is accompanied by a solid streak of black comedy, and (even moreso than your average crime movie) a willingness on the part of the script not to insist on its characters always being likable and morally upright. Stewart and O'Brian play off each other very well, aided by solid supporting performances from the likes of Ed Harris and Anna Baryshnikov. Marvel Studios could have saved a lot of VFX money on its She-Hulk series if they had just cast O'Brian in the title role, painted her green, and digitally enlarged her somewhat. She's a striking screen presence who we will hopefully see more of in the future.

It might change an aspect of Children of Dune, but Villeneuve isn't planning to make that one anyway.

Alia isn't born, so by implication it's been less than nine months since the initial Harkonnen assault.

The main reservation some had with respect to the first film was that it was very much the first half of a story rather than a truly independent film in its own right. The release of Dune: Part Two secures the place for Villeneuve's duology as one of the great genre achievements of our time (whenever he gets around to making his planned Dune Messiah adaptation, one imagines it will become one of the great film trilogies). The first film heavily advertised the presence of Zendaya, whose actual screentime did not nearly live up to that billing. But that is certainly not the case here, and it becomes very apparent that Villeneuve's single most significant alteration to Herbert's Dune is the revised role of Chani. While not unimportant to the narrative, Chani was never one of Herbert's more nuanced characters, but that would not suffice either for a director like Villeneuve or a star like Zendaya. Chani, it turns out, is thematically crucial to the story of Dune: Part Two, in ways that in equal parts builds on the bones of Herbert's story and slightly (or significantly) revises details. The script bestows flesh and blood onto the bones of the narrative that did not really have that previously. It augurs for further and more interesting revisions to Dune Messiah as well. As with the earlier Dune, Villeneuve's touch with visual effects is noticeably distinct from what we see from many other contemporary cinematic franchises. Both shooting locations and even pure CGI creations have a sense tactility and weight bestowed up him by the director's camera and lighting, and you can tell that like James Cameron, all the time has been taken necessary to make things feel real, despite the fantastical nature of so much of what is onscreen. Bonus points also for the deployment of Anya Taylor-Joy, another of my favourite actresses, in a role so obviously suited for her that it might as well have been a fancasting assembled based on Tumblr gifs.

Already a thread: https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/139899-priscilla-2023/#comment-8202028

This is a relatively minor detail, but all the characters keep referring to "Sir Winston Churchill". He was not a knight in 1943; that wouldn't happen until ten years later, as part of the leadup to the Queen's Coronation.

Morrible's parts in "The Wizard and I" and "Thank Goodness", for the record. A couple of lines in each case, in neither case very challenging.

Most of the roles are played by people with musical theatre background. The exceptions are Yeoh and Goldblum, but Madam Morrible barely sings and both she and the Wizard are really just sing-talking.

Her and Tantoo Cardinal.

In addition to a bit of realism, having the other boys around a bit longer creates more opportunities to show some additional sides of Angus' character that you wouldn't get if he was just interacting with the teachers the whole time.