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Dune (titled on-screen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic space opera film directed and co-produced by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert .
Dune is an American science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert [a] and has continued to add new publications. Dune is frequently described as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.
Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966.
Variety gave Dune a less negative review, stating "Dune is a huge, hollow, imaginative, and cold sci-fi epic. Visually unique and teeming with incident, David Lynch's film holds the interest due to its abundant surface attractions, but won't, of its own accord, create the sort of fanaticism which has made Frank Herbert's 1965 novel one of the ...
Dune: Prophecy is an American science fiction television series developed by Diane Ademu-John and Alison Schapker for HBO.Set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe, the series focuses on the origins of the Bene Gesserit, a powerful social, religious, and political force whose members possess superhuman powers and abilities after undergoing years of intense physical and mental conditioning.
Dune was adapted as a 1984 film, [8] [9] and again in two parts, the films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). [10] [11] Additionally, the novel was adapted as a 2000 television miniseries, Frank Herbert's Dune, [12] [13] and the first two sequels were also adapted as a single miniseries, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, in 2003. [14]
The Bene Gesserit are a key social, religious, and political force in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe. The matriarchal group is described as a secretive and exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and abilities that can seem magical to outsiders.
"The Dune" is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in the fall 2011 issue of Granta, and later collected in his 2015 short story collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Plot summary [ edit ]