Prior to Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed movies, Frank Herbert's Dune was once dubbed an "unadaptable" story. Dense in lore, with an unwieldy cast of characters and a sometimes awkward mix of harrowing political allegories and otherworldly sci-fi thrills, filmmakers as bold as Ridley Scott and David Lynch buckled under the weight of bringing it to the big screen.
Dune: Prophecy, the new prequel series set 10,000 years before Paul Atreides first stepped foot on Arrakis, juggles it all with mixed results, occasionally offering up moments that stand up to Villeneuve's genius works – but largely falling short of its big screen counterparts.
