So I guess we could probably start off by talking about the source material itself. The movie sort of only really covers, I think, the first half of the book.

That’s a pretty good summary of both the book and the movie. When trouble erupts on Arrakis, Paul is forced to face his destiny, shaped by forces at work for decades before his birth and change the fate of the Imperium forever. However, House Atreides has also made enemies of House Harkonnen, the previous controllers of Arrakis, and a family of sadistic power hungry individuals headed by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

House Atreides has just been granted the desert planet Arrakis as a fief - a decision that could prove hugely profitable, as Arrakis is home to the spice melange, a mind-expanding drug that facilitates space travel and the training of human computers known as Mentats. “Dune” centers on Paul Atreides, the 15-year-old son of Duke Leto Atreides of Caladan, and his concubine, Lady Jessica who is part of a religious movement called the Bene Gesserit, which we will be discussing. It is the first novel in a series of six that was later picked up and expanded on by his son, Brian Herbert. Okay, so for all of you listeners who perhaps don’t really know that much about “Dune” still or maybe haven’t seen the movie just yet… The original novel, “Dune,” was written in 1965 by Frank Herbert. I don’t think there was much that we disliked but you know, there’s plenty to discuss. Right, so we’re here to talk about “Dune.” We’ll mostly be focusing on the movie but also how it ties in, of course, with its source material, and sort of, you know, whether it was good, whether it wasn’t good and what we liked, what we maybe didn’t. “Dune: Part Two” has just been greenlit by Warner Brothers Studios, and “Dune: Part One” is in cinemas now! I am Nestor Kok, the Entertainment Editor at F Newsmagazine.Īnd I’m Myle Yan Tay. We are doing a standalone podcast on the release of the new “Dune” movie. Hello and welcome to F Newsmagazine’s very special edition of the Entertainment Section.

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