Possible Dune Adaptation from Denis Villeneuve

In February, we learned that Denis Villeneuve, who directed Sicario and the heavily Oscar-nominated Arrival, not to mention the upcoming sequel Blade Runner 2049, has signed on to direct a new adaptation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s classic novel about the machinations surrounding a desert planet which supplies the universe’s most valuable commodity. This is excellent news: Villeneuve is an outstanding director. But it’s also interesting because this could be the start of a much bigger franchise. Frank Herbert’s son Brian, who has co-written more than a dozen Dune books of…

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More Stories (Movies) From J. R. R. Tolkien

All of us were enthralled by the Lord of the Rings movies and probably have a copy in our DVD/Blu-Ray collection. While The Hobbit also written by J. R. R. Tolkien was also made into a movie trilogy. The Hobbit is only about three hundred pages long. However, confident that his book would one day be divided into a dozen movies, author JRR Tolkien also provided 125 pages of Hobbit backstory, billed as “The Appendices,” in a later edition of the final Lord of the Rings novel The Return of…

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J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Is Leaving Comic Books

[Editor’s Note: At Comic-Con International: San Diego, J. Michael Straczynski announced that he would no longer be writing comic books. Newsarama reached out to the author, who provided this letter to readers. Because of our great respect for this great talent Comics talk is providing the letter in it’s entirety as found at Newsarama] I’ve had a very funny career. Multiple careers, actually. I was a reporter in San Diego for many years, working for a host of local newspapers and magazines, including the San Diego Reader and San Diego…

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The Gathering A New Superhero Novel

I am pleased to release my first fiction book under my pen name W. B. Stiles, titled: The Gathering: Book One Of The Project Genesis Series is in print now and is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble or your closes retail Book Store. Here is a description of the novel: Jane Watkins, reporter for the Seattle Gazette newspaper, goes to meet a source with information about a serial killer known as the Slasher—only to find herself facing not an informant but the killer. She nearly meets her death but…

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