And that’s before the Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) launches his plot to violently retake Arrakis for himself. With his concubine Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) and their son Paul (Timothée Chalamet), Leto and his retainers find Arrakis unfamiliar and hostile - not just in the climate, but also because of the native Fremen, who have chafed for decades under Harkonnen oppression. Threatened by both houses, the Emperor plays them against one another by giving dominion of Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), who recognizes the trap but cannot refuse the position. The brutal House Harkonnen has grown wealthy thanks to their control of the planet, while the respected House Atreides is winning more and more prestige within the empire’s nobility. The desert planet Arrakis is the only known source in the universe for “spice,” a substance of incalculable importance to the interstellar empire of humanity. That over $150 million has been put into a film that requires a sequel but has no guarantee of one is quite the risk on the part of Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., to put it both mildly and kindly (especially since it will be released in theaters and online simultaneously, much to the chagrin of director Denis Villeneuve).
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Further efforts to “get it right” started and stalled over the years, dwindling to perhaps the ultimate indignity for an important work of speculative fiction: an early 2000s Sci Fi Channel miniseries.īut now the stars have aligned for another big-budget go at Dune, with the caveat that the new movie adapts only half of the story - “Part One” is not included in any promotional materials but displayed clearly in the title. Dune eventually made it to the screen in 1984, courtesy of David Lynch, but it was a mostly ill-received flop ( though Herbert appreciated it). The cult psychedelic icon Alejandro Jodorowsky infamously tried to do it in the ’70s and failed so spectacularly that a documentary was made about the fiasco. Adapting Frank Herbert’s seminal 1965 science fiction novel Dune as a film has continually been a tricky proposition.
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