10 Movies Doomed From The Start

Some books are considered, understandably, to be truly unadaptable. Books whose stories are so married to the medium in which they were created, that adapting it is either impossible or too difficult to be worth the effort.

The past two decades have seen multiple books be taken off that list - most famously Lord of the Rings. Dune, thanks to the duology by director Denis Villeneuve, has officially been freed of that list as well. But like Lord of the Rings, the reason everyone made that conclusion about Dune - including writer Harlan Ellison - is because they tried before. 

And it was one of the greatest blockbuster disasters in Hollywood history. 

Frankly, the whole thing was a bad idea from minute one. David Lynch is one of the greatest directors in the world, but he'd be the first to tell you that he was not a good fit for this movie. Even then, if he had been given a decent budget and the creative control he wanted, maybe something interesting could've come of it. Sadly, he got neither. 

Dune is a disaster that simply has to be seen to be believed. A fascinating and glorious failure of blockbuster cinema, one that so traumatized Lynch that he doesn't even want to know about the new movies.