Jesus. Sounds like my uncle. I wonder if he's equally as anal-retentive?Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 12:06 am The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS
The Oscar winning screenwriter of ‘Dune’ writes in an MS-DOS program that can only hold 40 pages in memory.
Oscar winning Dune screenwriter Eric Roth banged out the screenplay using the MS-DOS program Movie Master.
Roth writes everything using the 30-year-old software. “I work on an old computer program that’s not in existence anymore,” Roth said in an interview in 2014. “It’s half superstition and half fear of change.” Roth wrote the screenplay for Dune in 2018 and explained he was still using Movie Master on a Barstool Sports podcast in 2020. That means Dune was written in an MS-DOS program.
I will partly defend Jeff V's position as someone who has no dog in this fight. As mentioned before, I've only played the (glorious) PC game of Dune...no book reading, no movies watched, etc. I have had the book in my reading backlog for years, so I have shown at least that much interest in the IP.
I am not that interested in watching only one half of a movie, whose story MIGHT (confirmed, now), be continued in a year or two. In fact, if the second part of the movie was not secured, and sure to be made, I sure as shit would not watch the first one. I really don't want to support that model personally. Don't like the idea of this being some kind of Kickstarter where if I want to see the widget made, I have to pony up for it.
Thinking about the LOTR movies though, where I had read all of those books at least three times...I wasn't as concerned I guess, because I already knew what was going to happen. It wasn't like I was waiting for some resolution like someone who had never read the books.
I guess that's why I am a HUGE binge watcher. Even (maybe especially) things I am SUPER interested in, I will wait until they are finished before I start watching. Exception: Started watching and was subsequently hooked by the series Ozark....but then I didn't know anything about it, so it wasn't like some beloved IP. I do feel like the time that has passed since I watched the last episode, until now (or until the next season drops), has diminished my enjoyment of the series, and I will have forgotten much of the nuance and details of the prior seasons (yes, even with Youtube summaries) by the time I see a new episode.