I had a shower thought last night that it would be cool if Dune or some of those older classics had a modern ramake applied across the books to revamp them and update them with what we know now in terms of technology, our ability to imagine and make the style of writing more palatable to younger/new audiences.
I had a couple of friends try read the dune books and said they really struggled with the style of writing and English.
Is this a dumb thought lol
Stephen Fry wrote a couple of books of updated Greek mythology, and ‘The Stars’ Tennis Balls’ is a modern retelling of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’. I’m sure there are more, but those sprang to mind.
It’s not a dumb thought at all! Theatre and cinema update Shakespeare all the time. And Spiderman, come to that.