By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/6/2010
This link has been making the rounds and why not? The 1985 comics adaptation of David Lynch’s DUNE drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz. Yes.
UPDATE: This link has gotten a lot of traction, from its source at TCR. Here’s more background and linkage. Like Moebius’s work on an aborted Jorodowsky-directed DUNE adaptation.
Bonus, Paul Pope’s pitch for a DUNE adaptation.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 10/26/2010
Everyone’s favorite serial killer Dexter has his own “webizodes” in a story called Dark Echoes, which features art by folks like Bill Sienkiewicz, David Mack and Kyle Baker. Yes, it’s a motion comic but it kinda…..works. Honest.
Via /Films which also has some newsy bits about Sienkiewicz’s current activities:
Sienkiewicz’ character design for the upcoming DreamWorks’ film Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians has now opened doors for producing. Sienkiewicz is conceptualizing characters for LionsGate’s supernatural Western The Man With No Name, which he will executive produce with Braxton Pope. He will also jointly produce, write and direct the film of his Stray Toasters with Jeff Renfroe.
I will die happy the day Paul Pope makes his own version of Dune.
Oh, that’s lovely, in it’s own way: it starts out very much in Sienkiewicz’s Neal Adams style, and becomes more and more impressionistic as it continues, to the point at the end all the drawings of Kyle MacLachlan resemble Ken Wind from Elektra Assassin, so obvious is the (deliberate) copying of photo reference for his face.
Compare and contrast with:
http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/moebius.asp
How’s the legal stuff tumble out on something like this? I assume this was one of Marvel’s movie adaptations. Did they release it for public consumption or is it public domain now or…?
Anyway, just started looking and it’s pretty swanky. I love his landscape shots and the colors are excellent, too.
Thanks for the Moebius stuff! Amazing!
And I remember that page that Paul Pope did. One of the coolest bits I’ve chanced across on the Beat, but I got false hopes when the current link teased it as a “pitch” for Dune; it was definitely just a lark based on his Wednesday Comics experiences.
But if it expanded to the full novel, I’d buy a hundred copies.
He IS the Kwisatz Haderach!