It spares no expense in its ambitious standards of filmcraft, especially when it comes to art direction. The technology now exists to render the story’s epic scale, especially when it comes to visual effects.

And previous attempts to film the “unfilmable” novel (Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s, David Lynch in 1984) have fallen distressingly short of the movie that lives so vividly in readers’ heads.įor such fans, this latest attempt at capturing Dune onscreen is indeed a big deal. Few works in the SF canon have been so profoundly influential - including on such filmmakers as George Lucas, whose Star Wars universe made free use of many of Herbert’s narrative and worldbuilding concepts. There are people out there saying that they’ve been waiting for this movie all their lives - or since Frank Herbert’s novel Dune was published in 1965, whichever is more recent. If you’re not a fan of the science fiction genre, on the page or onscreen, you may feel a little baffled right now about why the arrival of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One is being hailed as such a big deal. Timothee Chalamet stars in Warner Brothers′ Dune.

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