![]() ![]() David Lynch’s infamous 1984 flop was so poorly received that the director successfully asked to have his name removed from extended versions. Past attempts to adapt Dune have fallen short. With the director Denis Villenueve’s big-budget, star-studded epic now giving it a proper film adaptation, how does 2021’s Dune play more than a half century after the novel was first published? With so many hero’s-journey imitations since, does its “chosen one” narrative feel stale? Or does the novel’s own skepticism about messianic belief shine through? ![]() The 1965 novel Dune’s influence on Star Wars is obvious, but Frank Herbert’s work has echoed throughout all of modern science-fiction storytelling.
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