With Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaption, Warner Bros. launches its next moonshot at a tentpole genre franchise, and it hits in spectacular fashion.
Dune is a classic Chosen One narrative centered on young Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), next in line after his father, the Duke Leto Atreides, to lead the respected House Atreides, one of several houses that make up a tenuous galactic empire. After the emperor mandates the Atreides House leave their paradisiacal home world of Caladan to take stewardship of Arrakis, the barren desert planet that produces spice, the most coveted natural resource in the empire, Paul, his family, and their loyal army leave for their new home. However, there’s more to the arrangement than a simple transfer of power; danger awaits the Atreides on Arrakis, but so too does Paul’s destiny.
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