Dune is a story about men in rubber suits fighting over who gets to eat the poop of giant sand worms.

There's a lot of ways telling that story on a cinema screen can go HORRIBLY wrong.

Even after the success of Dune part 1 - which I consider to be a masterpiece - Denis Villeneuve has an uphill fight to repeat the trick with DUNE 2.

As a lesson in narrative craft and storytelling, it's valuable to think through what those challenges are and how the story will have to be adapted to prevent it being a total...

...DUNETASTROPHE

TRIGGER WARNING - contains criticism of Frank Herbert and the essentially gendered nature of archetypal storytelling.

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