Has it really only been since 2020 that J.K. came out as a transphobe? It seems like a lifetime…

Good luck with that.

It’s (hot) fusion that’s always 10 years away, not cold fusion, which is more of a crackpot idea.

I had no idea who Oyler is, but the Manov review is devastating in a way that made me flip-flop repeatedly between schadenfreude and cringe.

I didn’t get a The Americans notification for this?

our seats definitely rumbled and shook when big things happened onscreen, and I thought it really did add to the experience.

I watched Part One in 4DX, and vowed Never Again.

I think it’s likely that Villeneuve has a vision for the overall story and character arcs across the whole movie trilogy, so that the changes in this film and the changes that will be made to Dune Messiah are all part of the same design, rather than the changes in this film leading to an unforeseen need down the road…

I mean, they’re not insignificant, but I’m not convinced they’re any more massive than the changes already made in Dune: Part Two.

I also think they should stop after Messiah, but if they were to go on I would assume they’d do Children of Dune. (I also think, contrary to what a lot of people claim, that God Emperor of Dune is eminently adaptable.)

Drop the birth control subplot, add in a reconciliation at some point in the movie. There: adapted!

They’re going to do Dune Messiah, and they’re going to change it a bit to fit with the changes made in this movie.

I personally think the truth is somewhere in between: As he was finishing the typescript of Dune in 1963, he no doubt had ideas for where the story could go, which he probably jotted down. He seems to have felt pretty confident that he had a hit on his hands, so he may very well have been thinking of sequels already…

It proves that they have Egyptian speakers among their ancestors, but that far back their ancestors include pretty much everyone who left descendants at all, and they know practically all languages. Among others, Leto mentions that he knows the ancient sign language of the hula dance, from back when it was a secret…

Two characters in Children of Men even speak Egyptian to each other.

...also, this review came off as very AI-written to me...

I have had a similar problem keeping this show and the movie Marlowe (with Liam Neeson) straight.

Herbert original never planned to write sequels.

I think if you adapt Messiah then you also need Children of Dune to complete that arc.

I’m in the subset of fans who didn’t find the movie all that powerful in part because I’m too invested in Frank Herbert’s worldbuilding, and the movie broke too much of it for me. The most obvious example being the reckless way lasguns are employed around shields.