Denis Villeneuve’s breathtaking take on Frank Herbert’s “unfilmable” classic: young Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) inherits the deadly desert planet Arrakis, source of the priceless “spice,” only to face betrayal and exile among the native Fremen. Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya and more fill out a stacked cast in this monumental, slow-burn sci-fi masterpiece.

We explore Villeneuve’s jaw-dropping world-building, why the deliberate pace works even as “half a story,” how it finally buries Lynch’s 1984 version, and whether the sandworms live up to the hype.

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Recorded on the 5 November 2021 © Rogue Reviews.