Casting aside, how would a game where at least half of the dialog takes place in the protagonist’s mind even work as a movie?
The Lynch version of Dune did that for much of the run.
and it was infamously a terrible movie that even Lynch hated
David Lynch is wrong and I’m not afraid to say it.
half the movie is cross fades and narration. the 2nd 50% of the plot happens in like 5 minutes. it’s bad lmao
I love it and will die to defend it
and it was infamously a terrible movie
Wrong
it’s a bafflingly dull and badly paced movie filled with narration and cross-fades. Everyone I’ve ever tried to watch it with has fallen asleep
The begining is a chore just because he had to make 1 movie out a very dense book. 30 Minutes in and it’s one of the most visually interesting works of the 80s. There is nothing that looks like it. And the story gets better but without the narration you miss a lot. It’s unfortunate he did have to use as much narration as he did. They didn’t have the time and money to complete his vision. I think what’s there is more entertaining than the 2 new films. It’s also frankly more daring. It’s criminally underrated. It’s a lightning rod for crit because it was a box office failure, lynch was pissed he couldn’t finish it, and most Americans are too impatient to devote 30 minutes of time for character development. It’s by no means a terrible movie. Cats was a terrible movie. Jaws 3D was a terrible movie. Lynch’s Dune is facinating and unique.
Lynch wasn’t mad he couldn’t finish it. He said it was the worst experience of his life and he would never do anything like it again. He wanted off the project as soon as possible.
He spent more time on torturing a hairless cat and a minor lieutenant of the Atreides than he spent on the entirety of the Fremen people and Chani’s character. The new films are so much better it’s not even funny.
I heard him talking about it on some KROQ show a few years ago when I was in the area. He said she didn’t want to do it the way the studio did and when they stopped letting him do his thing he stopped trying to finish it. It’s Lynch so who fucking knows what’s true. He speaks in riddles.
I respectfully disagree on the new Dune films. Good director and Hans is always an interesting composer but I just found the rigid blockbuster movie scifi action flick spin on it played out. I really didn’t need the drawn out EXPLOSIONS and battles. It get’s tedious after a while. I didn’t like the choice of actors. All of them. It also just felt too sanitized visually. That’s not exactly good criticism but it lacked an edge or something that set it apart. Too clinical maybe? That said, The VFX on a technical level was awesome. I can’t deny the skill involved. Like working in Houdini and Blender is already pretty next level human brain shit but also the cutting edge physics involved … much respect.
I do not get the love for 2nd. They changed some pretty substantial plotlines. Or I should say characters and factions involved in events of those plot lines and their decisions which changes the dynamics of the story enough to make it hard to comprehend their motivations. WTF was that ending. Awful. I don’t remember that in the book but I read it a while ago.
Just have them talk over the movie itd be like the movie form of an episode of psychosis
Give each person in the theatre a set of headphones that will overlay a randomised track with different in-head personas talking for each person watching. A slightly different experience every time.
Live action version of Inside Out
lol I sent this to my partner with the same reaction yesterday
Stavros Halkias as Harry
Takehiro Hira as Kim
Stavbot laughs
Jack Black is a man with next to no principles beyond making a check. Who better to play somebody in a tabula rasa state.
Jack Black can’t play a drunk marxist cop when he’s always cast as the utopian anarchist who is suspiciously only surrounded by other white people.
I…am Raphael Ambrosius Costeau
Personally i would love to see Hollywood totally miss the mark (as they always do) and miscast Kim . Someone like a Ma Dong-seok, or some other buff dude. Just a cursed big and burly Kim.
Fuck no.
Ryan Gosling as every Disco Elysium character
Disco Literally Mesium
I would be much more worried about the writing than the casting. I could just see a situation where they make a rough cut that’s really true to the tone of the game, but then test audiences don’t like it, so producers take a hatchet to the entire thing and bring in Joss Whedon to “punch it up” and we get a flashback scene with The Deserter where a coalition airship comes over the horizon and he turns to his fellow revolutionary and says “they fly now!?”
“What is this… some kind of disco in Elysium?” 
I am a office of the Revacholian citizen militia, Officer Kitsuragi
ok now we’re cooking
I would watch it.
RedLetterMedia people acting out Disco Elysium? I think I’d enjoy that in a lowbrow way.
Mike is Harry. Jay is Kim. Rich is every other character
Harry is a drunk and talentless hack
Kim is a gay wing-man who is never wrong
It’s 1:1
Rich as Measurehead.
I like it.
Zionist Harry Du Bois would be something.
Stephen Root as Harry
Steven Yeun as Kim
yknow…not the worst ngl
Harry DuBois is basically Bill from King of the Hill if he were a pig instead of a troop
Stephen Root would make a perfect
daniel dae kim as kim is borderline racist or something because they have nothing in common besides being korean/fantasy korean-new worlder, and having “kim” in their name. it would be like casting harry styles as tequila sunset
