It has been described as an unfilmable book.
But after a year-long delay due to the pandemic, the movie adaption of Frank Herbert's beloved 1965 novel Dune has finally arrived in Australian cinemas.
The highly anticipated epic brings to life a science fiction story that is a touchstone of the genre and has influenced countless successors including Star Wars.
Here's your spoiler-free guide to the movie Dune.
What is Dune about?
Dune is about the struggle between the great families and organisations that rule every planet in the universe, but this movie is specifically about two of them: House Atreides and House Harkonnen.
The story mainly follows the young heir of House Atreides, Paul, who has inherited superhuman powers from his mother, Lady Jessica.
House Atreides is ordered by the emperor of the universe to take over the rule of the inhospitable desert planet Arrakis from House Harkonnen.
Arrakis is the only known location of the spice — a precious substance that, among other incredible things, makes space travel possible. Controlling the spice has made House Harkonnen very wealthy.
Paul's father Duke Leto hopes to join forces with the planet's Indigenous people, the Fremen, who have adapted to living in the harsh and dangerous land.
But the head of House Harkonnen, the Baron, isn't about to relinquish control of Arrakis so easily.
How long is Dune and when is part 2 coming out?
The movie Dune is two hours and 35 minutes long and covers just half of the book.
Dune Part Two is due to be released in October 2023.
There is no post-credit scene at the end of Dune Part One.
There are six books in total in the Dune series written by Frank Herbert, but as of 2021, there have been no official announcements to make a movie beyond the first novel.
Who is in Dune?
Dune is made up of a blockbuster team both on and off camera.
Its star-studded cast is led by Timothée Chalamet, who plays Paul Atreides.
Rebecca Ferguson from the Mission Impossible franchise and Oscar Isaac of Star Wars are Paul's parents Lady Jessica and Duke Leto.
House Atreides is rounded out by Game of Thrones actor Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho and Josh Brolin, of Marvel Universe fame, as Gurney Halleck.
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård from Mamma Mia! is Baron Harkonnen, and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Dave Bautista plays his nephew Rabban.
Former Bond villain Javier Bardem is Stilgar, leader of the Fremen, and Zendaya of the recent Spider-Man films is Chani, a Fremen warrior.
Other notable actors include Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Sex Education) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years).
The film is directed by Denis Villeneuve, whose credits include the films Blade Runner 2049, Arrival and Sicario.
Dune's other-worldly sound was created by iconic composer Hans Zimmer — a shortlist of his work includes the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Inception, the Dark Knight Trilogy and the 1994 animation The Lion King.
Is Dune a good movie?
Dune has already been released in cinemas and on paid-streaming service HBO Max in the United States, so the audience and critic reviews are out.
The verdict is largely positive — Dune successfully adapts Herbert's space opera to look and sound as epic as it should be.
However, the movie has been criticised for its slow pace and for being difficult to follow.
As of December, it had a 90 per cent audience score on movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.
Luke Goodsell for ABC Arts writes: "It more than captures the attention, and sometimes even inspires awe. If this is the beginning of a resurgence in ambitious, operatic space fantasy, then bring it on."
Polygon writes: "The visuals are mesmerising, but the world-building is flat" and that Jason Momoa is "the only person who genuinely seems to be having fun amid this deep ensemble".
The New York Times writes: "Villeneuve has made a serious, stately opus, and while he doesn't have a pop bone in his body, he knows how to put on a show as he fans a timely argument about who gets to play the hero now."
Screen Rant writes: "Spectacular visuals aside, Dune is emotionally empty and incomplete. Everything the film introduces is simply a set up for something to come later on, if ever."
To be clear, these reviews are about the Dune movie released in 2021.
There was another movie of the same name released in 1984 by director David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan.
That Dune, based on the same book, was a box office flop and described by high-profile film critic Roger Ebert as "an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time".
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