Teaser trailer out:
I can’t remember where I saw it, but Villeneuve is not interested in going any further (probably because it gets too weird)
I guess Chani got over being the concubine so Paul could marry into the Imperial family. Though it looks like she doesn’t spend the whole movie pregnant like she is in the book.
And I always pronounced it GAH-ni-mah and LEE-toe, not guh-NEE-mah and Leh-toe.
Children of Dune would have been interesting, with Leto II going all Shai-Hulud on us, but yeah, anything after that would be crazy.
Ah, Dune.
Not really science fiction: mythic fantasy.
As with some other series: read the first book, it has a unique resonance.
And then STOP.
I liked book 2, but after that my liking waned.
Brian
I find the third book, Children of Dune, to be the best stopping point. I once picked up God Emperor and after 50-100 pages, I decided I was happier stopping after Paul…well, after Paul.
Anyway, I don’t get this. Are we getting Leto II and Ghanima? And all the bizarre stuff that happens with them? The mysterious stranger from the desert that might be…someone important?
Dune Messiah is a weak stand alone novel. Why stop there?
Leto and Ghanima were only in the book as infants. It seems they, and everyone else, have been aged up from the book.
A good break down of the teaser can be found here
Wait, they’re in the trailer as non-infants? Their birth is literally one of the last things that happens in the book! Did he pull in some CoD stuff too?
Same, I actually liked the second book more than the first (and it introduced the Tleilaxu Face Dancers, which I thought were so cool as villains).
Then it got really weird in the third book, and “God Emperor of Dune” is where I stopped, because it went from weird to insane. I think I finished it, but I’m not sure.
God Emperor is a slog, but I thought Heretics and Chapterhouse were a return to form, with the court intrigue and plots within plots and warring factions, with an interesting cast of characters.
I never read the expanded universe stuff his kid wrote.
I had to rewatch part one before watching part two, and right now I couldn’t give any kind of coherent synopsis of the story thus far. I doubt I am up for the five and a half hour refresher needed to watch part three.
Maybe I tapped out too soon then. But I was seeing an escalation across the previous two books and decided to get off the ride before it got worse.
I’ve heard mixed results, pretty much. I did see that he and Kevin Anderson did a Butlerian Jihad set of books. I admit, I’m pretty interested in Computer vs. Human war and I guess that lays it all out.
They also wrote a 7th and final novel in the series, but I think they split even that up into two parts.
And if anyone ever, like me, figured Frank Herbert must be a very dull and hyperintelligent guy to talk to, here he is with Paul Atreides himself.
I must have because I was a completest. But I retained nothing of the subsequent two books. Not that my memory is bad - I think it just was uninteresting enough.
I have said since my first read, it needs a pronunciation guide. Been Jesserit? Benay Gesserit? Benay Jesseray?
“Faster, Frank! Run faster!”
I went to Dune Peninsula not long after it opened, and I really enjoyed the place.
It’s in Tacoma (where I work) and used to be a heavily-polluted industrial waste site, which helped inspire Herbert. Now it’s a park, and a cool place, named after the book that it originally helped inspire.
The sandworm sculpture is pretty cool in-person too.
(Sadly it’s pretty small, but still looks cool.)
Anyway, I liked the first two recent Dune films, and I’m familiar enough with the source material that I don’t feel that I need to rewatch them before seeing the third.
I wonder if we’ll see any Navigators in Part Three.
They might be visions of the future, using Paul’s prescience. I suspect the movie will follow the end of the novel in regards to Paul but with some visions of the future to round it out. Or they’ll end with a shot of the God Emperor in all his wormy glory with no further explanation.