![]() Despite the whimper the movie ends on, it remains fairly epic. ![]() In a just world, finding these converts wouldn’t be too hard. By the time the credits roll, many of the novel’s most epic scenes have yet to get their moment on screen they remain zygotes in Villeneuve’s mind. After waiting more than five decades, and an additional year because of Covid-19-related theater closures, the version of Dune fans are getting is half-finished. Villeneuve has been saying for months that the only way he could adapt Herbert’s novel is to split it into two parts, and so he has. Not because the movie is bad-it’s quite stunning-but because it’s incomplete. It’s practically begging the question: Has Dune’s time finally come? ![]() Now, in 2021, Denis Villeneuve-one of the most respected sci-fi directors of his generation-is releasing his attempt at putting Dune on the big screen. ![]() Since Frank Herbert’s book first came out in 1965, there has been a David Lynch movie based on its story, a Syfy series, and a famously ill-fated attempt by Alejandro Jodorowsky to capture its grandeur. A novel so massive in scope it defies adaptation, yet so ornate and lyrical it pretty much taunts filmmakers and showrunners into trying. Read anything about Dune-or Dune itself-and you'll likely glean that it is an unwieldy beast. ![]()
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