Exactly - and the series has so many different character-driven stories woven throughout. Given the popularity of Game of Thrones, and how that series has morphed into its own narrative outside of the books, Dune has so much going for it. The thousands of years to fill between "Children" and "Emperor God" not to…

It seems to me that the Dune books would fare much better as an HBO or Netflix series (not a fundamentally flawed Hollywood blockbuster or SciFy channel dreck.)