According to Deadline, the Dune movie is dead for now:
Paramount has turned loose the giant worm, and everything else that was part of the seminal Frank Herbert science fiction novel series Dune. The studio’s four-year attempt to make a movie out of the franchise has fallen by the wayside. Paramount and the rights holders came to a parting of the ways as the rights lapsed. “Paramount’s option has expired and we couldn’t reach an agreement,” said Richard P. Rubinstein, who controls the rights to what is considered the biggest-selling science fiction book ever. “I’m going to look at my options, and whether I wind up taking the script we developed in turnaround, or start over, I’m not sure yet.”
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), so now it’s time for the Pythagoreans. The legend goes that Pythagoras set up a religious/mathematical cult in Croton before being chased out of the city and killed. His followers divided into two groups, the mathēmatikoi and the akousmatikoi. The mathēmatikoi were the more mathematical or scientific group and the akousmatikoi were more religious. The differences between these groups form the basis of Kevin Guilfoile’s 
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and Dan Brown’s multiple conspiracy novels. So what are the Pythagoreans up to?
, the author does a fun trick of having the star of the book be the title character and not be the title character at the same time. In this book, we follow the adventures of the written Thursday Next, not the real Thursday Next. If this makes sense to you, then you’re probably familiar with Fforde’s fun literary tweaking series and are already looking forward to the book. If you’re confused, then don’t worry, it isn’t as confusing as it sounds. So, which Thursday is missing?
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. The novel is a fun (and often funny) look at what happens if we get linked together with an alternate universe that is split off from ours. Not only do we see how the different worlds evolved differently after the split, but also how the people who were split off are different than their alternate people. So, why are we regarding Ducks?
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