Villeneuve's film makes visual imagery you may have thought you could only imagine in your head work on a grand, majestic scale. The 2021 release is the latest adaptation of author Frank Herbert's classic 1965 sci-fi novel-following an abandoned Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation, a truncated 1984 David Lynch-directed take, and a lower-budget 2000 SyFy miniseries-and is by far the most accurate adaptation to the written work yet. The following story contains spoilers for Dune (2021) and Frank Herbert's original 1965 novel of the same name.ĭirector Denis Villeneuve has done something remarkable with Dune, his 10th film and sixth in the English language.
