That's right, after waiting for what seems like for-eh-vah, Dune 2 is finally rolling into theaters in a few days! SQUEE!
March 1st, 2024 to be exact.
Now, I don't get too excited about most things, rather I am pretty elated about pretty much everything most of the time, but I have to say, I am super, over-the-top, beyond excited for this movie to come out.
Because, well, DUNE!
As a child, lines from the first movie floated around in the ether I existed in all of the time. My dad was especially fond of saying, "Get out of my mind!" to my mother, and as the Reverend Mother of our house, I have to say she showed much wisdom and restraint by not ending him on many occasions.
Dad also listened to Toto, and the soundtrack to the first movie, all epic and very 80's is still one of my favorites.
But it was the novel itself that made a huge impact on my life, I devoured that book, and was captivated by all things House Harkonnen and House Atreides. The scheming and drama was like a never ending chess game that had no winners.
But it was the Fremen and the worms really captured my young imagination. I could only imagine how cool it would be to run up to something the size of the Royal Caribbean The Icon of the Seas, stick a fork in it, and be elevated to the sky for a magic worm back carpet ride!
One nice thing about the first Villenueve Dune movie was that you could tell he respected the source material. The movie definitely appreciated and followed the book, which is why I am so dang excited about the second one!
Plus, as we all know, "Fear is the mind killer," so like I am going to dread they are going to mess it up. Nope, I am excited! Like my hand going into a Gom Jabbar excited without the existential dread part, excited!
It's time: The Spice must flow.
And as not most of the time, the images in this post are from Pixabay, because I have no worm sign in the glacial silt I dwell upon.