Scribe in talks for "Dune" resurrection
By Jay A. Fernandez
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- We have wormsign.
Rookie scribe Josh Zetumer is in negotiations to write the latest incarnation of "Dune," Frank Herbert's sprawling sci-fi epic, for Paramount Pictures.
The award-winning 1965 novel -- the first in a series of six books about a futuristic struggle for control of a precious spice called Melange on the desert planet Arrakis -- was first adapted by David Lynch into a financially and critically disastrous 1984 film (though Herbert apparently liked it). It also was turned into a more successful Sci Fi Channel miniseries in 2000.
No one involved would comment on Zetumer's take on the "Dune" saga.
Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson, who have co-written several additional "Dune" novels, will co-produce. Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights") is attached to direct.
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