New Dune movie; EA should work w/ GOG and Dune owners to release Westwood games
https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14471312/dune-movie-adaptation-director-denis-villeneuve
With a new Dune movie potentially in the works, now would be a good time for EA to work with GOG.com and Herbert Properties LLC to re-release Westwood's Dune games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_based_on_Dune#Video_games
Dune 1 isn't with EA afaik, but Dune 2, Dune 2000, and Emperor Battle for Dune could be possible, in theory. I know this is really legally messy stuff, unfortunately.
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=dune&order=votes_total - I think there's over 25,000 votes here for EA-owned Dune games.
@tfishell sadly the Herbert estate stated clearly that they have no interest into renewing the contract, nor that they were interested in new videogames based on the IP.
I would love, too, to see the old games back, but as long as the Herbert heirs are not interested, i am afraid that it won't be possible. Plus, there is a lot of bad blood between EA and Herbert Properties, as the Herbert heirs took EA and a few other companies to court for copyright infringement. So, i doubt that there is anyone in the industry that would actually touch the Dune series after all that (EA being probably the least inclined) and the chances for EA to be allowed to re-publish those games are even lower.
As for the potential movie...while Villeneuve was enlisted to be the potential director, i can't help but look to the number of times where the movie companies let the IP lapse and done nothing with it.
We can hope, but unless the Herberts have a change of heart (which i suspect that would involve an apology towards the companies that they've sued), the Dune games are toast and on their way to oblivion.
