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Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’ (variety.com)

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[–] Tehgingey@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've never read the prequels either, but a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think

I thought that as well and so gave the prequels a try.

I’ve never read the prequels either,

Honestly, that was for the best. The writing was ok but a pale shadow of the original. (think the film version of LOTR vs The Hobbit...)

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

It was interesting seeing some of it fleshed out, but I'm not a fan of Brian Herbert's contributions.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was "Holy shit it's the Butlerian Jihad"

[–] Tehgingey@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better"

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

To be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).