Dune is a great novel. I have trouble seeing how it can ever be a great movie. Some stories are best read, not watched.
I agree. I saw the David Lynch “Dune” back in the day and was intrigued. I eventually made it through the original trilogy and was blown away! Great sci-fi but hard to translate to the screen.
The only way Dune could be made would be as a mini-series. Just too much information and too many great characters to crunch even into a 3 hour movie.
So much of Dune takes place inside the characters heads that it becomes difficult to translate to the screen. The 1984 movie tried to use voice overs to deal with this and it didn’t work.
My problem w/ adaptations of great fantasy novels like this and Lord Of The Rings is that part of the attraction is the fantasy part. I have a visual image in my mind of what a Hobbit looks like, but the movie creates that for me and then loses my interest.