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Emily Garbutt

Dune 2: How does the movie sequel differ from the book?

Timothée Chalamet in Dune 2.

Dune: Part Two sees director Denis Villeneuve adapt the second half of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel, published in 1965. While the first Dune movie followed its source material fairly closely, the sequel makes a few more changes, particularly around certain characters. 

This is the par for the course with book-to-screen adaptations, especially with a hefty epic like Dune. The novel clocks in at nearly five hundred pages and, even when split into two movies, it's no mean feat to condense the politics and battles of Arrakis into a feature-length film. 

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