History Film / Dune

A [[Film/Dune2020 new film adaptation]] of the novel is due to release in December 2020.

Director Creator/DenisVilleneuve is working on a new film adaptation, due to release in 2020.

** Meanwhile, every Harkonnen is ugly save Francesca Annis as Jessica and Sting as Feyd. Heck, one scene has him slathered in ''oil'' (wearing a winged speedo), with his ''uncle'' lusting after him. One unfortunate Harkonnen slave boy is pretty enough to capture the Baron's attention.[[note]]The Baron murders him and uses his blood to soak the lilies.[[/note]]

* AdaptationalBadass: The Bene Gesserit of the film are given mild telepathic abilities that they could use to eavesdrop on the conversation between Edric and the Emperor. In the books, the Bene Gesserit don't have practical telepathy, only a mental contact they can use to pass their ego/memories among them by touching foreheads (Alia does have something like literal telepathy, but she is a special case due to her cultivated bloodline). The film presents the Bene Gesserit's abilities as overt PsychicPowers, which in the novels they are not; things like the Voice and the Weirding Way were simply [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower supposed]] to come out of very advanced understanding of logic, psychology, spatial perception, body language, mnemonics, and linguistics, and not actual superhuman abilities, with the mentioned exception and that of the Kwisatz Haderach.

* AdaptationalBadass: The Bene Gesserit of the film are given mild telepathic abilities that they could use to eavesdrop on the conversation between Edric and the Emperor. In the books, the Bene Gesserit don't have practical telepathy, only a mental contact they can use to pass their ego/memories among them by touching foreheads (Alia does have something like literal telepathy, but she is a special case due to her cultivated bloodline). The film presents the Bene Gesserit's abilities as overt PsychicPowers, which in the novels they are not; things like the Voice and the Weirding Way were supposed to come simply out of very advanced understanding of logic, psychology, spacial perception, body language, mnemonics, and linguistics, and not actual superhuman abilities, with the mentioned exception and that of the Kwisatz Haderach.

* AdaptationalBadass: The Bene Gesserit were not explicitly mentioned to have telepathic ability in the book. With regard to the Mentats and Bene Gesserit's apparent superhuman abilities, Frank Herbert focused on human disciplines that come out of very advanced understanding of logic, psychology, spacial perception, body language, mnemonics, and linguistics, and not actual superhuman abilities such as telekinesis, telepathy, or even superhuman strength and speed. However, in this film they are given mild psychic abilities that they could use to eavesdrop on the conversation between Edric and the Emperor.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: While in the book the Baron is a high-functioning sociopath, here he's a complete psychotic. No less evil though.

** The Baron is considerably more grotesque and disgusting than he ever was in the book, complete with facial pustules and a filthy, disheveled appearance whereas in the book he was WickedCultured.

* AdaptationExpansion: This film introduced many elements that weren't in the original novel. The quickest example to come to mind is the Mentat Mantra, "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion," which sounds similar enough to the Litany Against Fear that it feels like a line from the book, despite it is actually original. Also, the Atreides research into sound-based weaponry is absent from the novel, while heart-plugs, only briefly mentioned in the book as some sort of filtration device, are turned into something entirely more sinister by the Harkonnen. Finally, the Baron Harkonnen's skin conditions never were mentioned in the books either. Those and other choices in the film went to influence later works in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' universe, to the point many people ignore they in fact originated on it.

** Poor Creator/VirginiaMadsen is reduced to one, brief on-screen line in the extended edition.

* AllForNothing: Yueh betrays House Atreides in an attempt to get back a wife he knows is likely dead, with his only comfort that maybe he can kill the Baron on the way out. Instead Yueh gets shanked by Piter and his poison gas trap on the Duke is wasted on Piter when the drugged Duke hallucinates him as the Baron. He ultimately accomplished nothing.

* AdaptationalUgliness: The Baron is considerably more grotesque and disgusting than he ever was in the book, complete with facial pustules and a filthy, disheveled appearance whereas in the book he was WickedCultured.

* AdaptationExpansion: The film introduced many elements that influenced later works in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' universe. The quickest example to come to mind is the Mentat Mantra, "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion," whch sounds similar enough to the Litany Against Fear that it feels like a line from the book, despite it is original to the film. The Atreides research into sound-based weaponry is again, never mentioned in the book, yet sonic tanks and the like have turned up in subsequent works. Heart-plugs, only briefly mentioned in the book as some sort of filtration device, are turned into something entirely more sinister by the Harkonnen. The Baron Harkonnen's skin conditions (never mentioned in the book; the Baron is only ever described as morbidly obese with no references made to skin problems), and many elements of the film's "look and feel" are aped by the works that followed. It's very rare to see the Emperor depicted without a neat little beard these days, for example, and Bene Gesserit are often depicted as bald. Frank Herbert liked the concept of there being multiple stages of Guild Navigators (the one seen at the beginning of the film was said by the Emperor to be a Third Stage Guild Navigator). The Bene Gesserit were not explicitly mentioned to have telepathic ability in the book, [[note]]With regard to the Mentats and Bene Gesserit's apparent superhuman abilities, Frank Herbert focused on human disciplines that come out of very advanced understanding of logic, psychology, spacial perception, body language, mnemonics, and linguistics, and not actual superhuman abilities such as telekinesis, telepathy, or even superhuman strength and speed[[/note]] but were given mild telepatic ability that they could use to eavesdrop on the conversation between Edric and the Emperor.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: "Weirding" is a Fremen word meaning "foreign." In the book, the "weirding way of fighting" is how Stilgar called Jessica's Bene Gesserit martial arts technique. In the film, where said martial arts are replaced by sonic weapons, those are oddly called "weirding modules" too, despite this makes no sense: they were developed by the House Atreides still based on Caladan, presumably without any relation to Arrakis or the Fremen.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The Baron is much more over-the-top than the subtle manipulator of the book. He's also a lot more mentally unstable. No less evil, though.
* AdaptationalUgliness: The Baron is considerably more grotesque and disgusting than he ever was in the book, complete with facial pustules.

* DepravedHomosexual: How the Baron Harkonnen is portrayed, complete with some rather tasteless [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything AIDS-like lesions]] on his face.

-->'''Guild Navigator:''' We ourselves... foresee a slight within House Atreides. Paul... Paul Atreides.\\ ''"Emperor:''' ''(confused)'' You mean, of course, Duke Leto Atreides, his father.\\

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Vladimir Harkonnen is eaten by a giant worm. In the novel, he is poisoned to death by his granddaughter Alia Atreides.

* AdaptationalWimp: Duncan Idaho, in the book, went down fighting and took a dozen Saudaukar with him. Here? One Sardaukar slow-fires a hunter-killer through his shield, and he promptly goes down.
** [[DownplayedTrope Not so much]]. Let us remember that before he was shot, he easily defeated a single Sardaukar ([[WorfEffect who seconds before was killing regular Atreides soldiers left and right]]) in a duel. And a few moments later, he took on ''entire squad'' of them at once, putting them all down. He went down fighting all right, and we may safely assume that a dozen Sardaukar or so had to die before he was killed.
* AdaptationExpansion: The film introduced many elements that influenced later works in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' universe. Examples include the Mentat Mantra. "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion", sounds similar enough to the Litany Against Fear that it feels like a line from the book, but never appeared in it. The Atreides research into sound-based weaponry is again, never mentioned in the book. Sonic tanks and the like have turned up in subsequent works. Heart-plugs, only briefly mentioned in the book as some sort of filtration device, are turned into something entirely more sinister by the Harkonnen. The Baron Harkonnen's skin conditions (never mentioned in the book; the Baron is only ever described as morbidly obese with no references made to skin problems), and many elements of the film's "look and feel" are aped by the works that followed. It's very rare to see the Emperor depicted without a neat little beard these days, for example, and Bene Gesserit are often depicted as bald. Frank Herbert liked the concept of there being multiple stages of Guild Navigators (the one seen at the beginning of the film was said by the Emperor to be a Third Stage Guild Navigator). The Bene Gesserit were not explicitly mentioned to have telepathic ability in the book, [[note]]With regard to the Mentats and Bene Gesserit's apparent superhuman abilities, Frank Herbert focused on human disciplines that come out of very advanced understanding of logic, psychology, spacial perception, body language, mnemonics, and linguistics, and not actual superhuman abilities such as telekinesis, telepathy, or even superhuman strength and speed[[/note]] but were given mild telepatic ability that they could use to eavesdrop on the conversation between Edric and the Emperor.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: "Weirding" is a Fremen word meaning "foreign," so it's unlikely that House Atreides, while they were still based on Caladan, would name a weapon they invented the "weirding module" in Lynch's film. Even though Jessica didn't have a weirding module when she subdued Stilgar on their first meeting, Stilgar calls her Bene Gesserit martial arts technique "the weirding way of fighting," which is the same as the novel; however, the way of fighting that Paul eventually teaches the Fremen mainly involves the use of the weirding module.

* AdaptationExpansion: The film introduced many elements that influenced later works in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' universe. Examples include the Mentat Mantra. "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion", sounds similar enough to the Litany Against Fear that it feels like a line from the book, but never appeared in it. The Atreides research into sound-based weaponry is again, never mentioned in the book. Sonic tanks and the like have turned up in subsequent works. Heart-plugs, only briefly mentioned in the book as some sort of filtration device, are turned into something entirely more sinister by the Harkonnen. The Baron Harkonnen's skin conditions (never mentioned in the book; the Baron is only ever described as morbidly obese with no references made to skin problems), and many elements of the film's "look and feel" are aped by the works that followed. It's very rare to see the Emperor depicted without a neat little beard these days, for example, and Bene Gesserit are often depicted as bald.

* AdaptationExpansion: The film introduced many elements that influenced later works in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' universe. Examples include the Mentat Mantra. "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion", sounds similar enough to the Litany Against Fear that it feels like a line from the book, but never appeared in it. The Atreides research into sound-based weaponry is again, never mentioned in the book. Sonic tanks and the like have turned up in subsequent works. Heart-plugs, only briefly mentioned in the book as some sort of filtration device, are turned into something entirely more sinister by the Harkonen. The Baron Harkonen's skin conditions (never mentioned in the book; the Baron is only ever described as morbidly obese with no references made to skin problems), and many elements of the film's "look and feel" are aped by the works that followed. It's very rare to see the Emperor depicted without a neat little beard these days, for example, and Bene Gesserit are often depicted as bald.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The Baron is much more over-the-top than the subtle mainpulator of the book. He's also a lot more mentally unstable. No less evil, though.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The Baron is much more over-the-top than the subtle mainpulator of the book. He's also a lot more mentally unstable.

* FishPeople: ''[[Creator/WayneBarlowe Barlowe]]'s Guide To Extraterrestrials'' depicts a Guild Steersman as looking like this. This depiction has become standard in adaptations since.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The population of Giedi Prime all wear 'heart plugs' that are prominently displayed and quite easy to yank out. Hawat is fitted with one once he's captured; Kenneth [=McMillian=]'s line, "[[HandWave Everyone gets one here]]," is so delightfully deadpan. It's never actually used by their enemies, however, other than one scene where the Baron Harkonnen murders a boy slave for the hell of it. [[spoiler: And the scene where Alia kills the Baron by stabbing him with a Gom Jabbar, then pulling his heart plugs and shoving him out into the sandstorm.]]

* AlanSmithee: David Lynch had his name removed from the extended cut of the film and had it replaced it with this. And then had his script credit changed to "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Judas Booth]]," in case anyone didn't get the message.

* LargeHam: Baron Harkonnen, with an emphasis on [[LargeAndInCharge large]].
-->"I'm alive, eh?! ''I'M ALIVE!!!'' I'M...'''''ALIVE!!!''''' I'M ALIVE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Narration was used to insane levels, although being ''Dune'', it needed it.

Producer Dino De Laurentiis handed the film to another experimental director, Creator/DavidLynch, who was a hot prospect at the time due to his cult classic debut film ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' and the critically lauded ''Film/TheElephantMan''. Lynch scrapped most of Jodorowsky's plans and made the film with his own unique vision. Lynch's completed work is memorable (and notorious) for its Freudian imagery, [[SceneryPorn elaborate set design]] (containing some holdovers from the Jodorowsky version, including Giger's designs), and AllStarCast.

Producer Dino De Laurentiis handed the film to another experimental director, Creator/DavidLynch, who was a hot prospect at the time due to his cult classic debut film ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' and the critically lauded ''Film/TheElephantMan''. Creator/DavidLynch scrapped most of Jodorowsky's plans and made the film with his own unique vision. Lynch's completed work is memorable (and notorious) for its Freudian imagery, [[SceneryPorn elaborate set design]] (containing some holdovers from the Jodorowsky version, including Giger's designs), and AllStarCast.

Director Creator/DenisVilleneuve is working on a [[Film/Dune2020 new film adaptation]], due to release in 2020.