Denis Villeneuve's two Dune movies have been a sensation in the last five years, with each shifting cinema tickets by the bucketload and proving that sci-fi is as popular as ever with audiences.
They've also disproved the longstanding narrative that Frank Herbert's novel was impossible to satisfyingly adapt, a story that wasn't helped by the long and slow development of the last attempt to do so – David Lynch's 1984 version.
