We’ll basically take any excuse to talk about Dune on this show, but for this episode we had two fairly good reasons. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two recently became available to rent or buy at home, and it likely won’t be long before the science fiction epic hits streaming services — I would guess on Max this summer. Now that the film has become more widely accessible, we thought that it would be a great time to revisit it and dig a little deeper. 

Meanwhile, we have a cadre of Star Wars podcaster friends who have not had a designated place to geek out about the Dune franchise. So, for this episode, we recruited Greg McLaughlin of The Rebel Base Card Podcast and Ross Hollebon of The Album Cockpit Podcast to reflect on what makes Dune: Part Two so exceptional. They share their respective experiences watching it, their prior relationship to it, and, since we’re all Star Wars fans, we contemplate the extent to which Star Wars and Dune intersect or influence one another. After that, we round out the conversation by picking our favorite characters and scenes, with a little bit of Oscars talk thrown in at the very end. Keep listening after the outro for our own “extended edition” of the episode. 

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Note: The Director’s Cut DGA Podcast episode with Steven Spielberg and Denis Villeneuve that Greg C. referred to during the episode.

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