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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tom Huddleston

Dune v Dune: do Denis Villeneuve’s films stay true to the book?

Timothée Chalamet, left, and Austin Butler in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two.
Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, left, and Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. Photograph: Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros Pictures/AP

The second part of director Denis Villeneuve’s vast adaptation of sci-fi set-text Dune is out this week. But what would author Frank Herbert have made of it? We explore which elements the films get spot on about Dune – and where they may have got a bit lost in the desert.

Right – The Atreides

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