History Trivia / Dune

*** [[spoiler:Duke Leto's death]] in Jodorowsky's version would have been even more gruesome and graphic than his death in the book. In the original book, [[spoiler:Leto dies of poisoning.]] In Jodorowsky's version, [[spoiler:Leto would have been mutilated to death, his arms and legs cut off with a giant set on pincers, tortured in an attempt to find Paul's location. When Leto fails to give up Paul and dies, the Baron in frustration then grabs the pincers and lops off Leto's head, tossing it into a box with the rest of his severed limbs, leaving what was left of his body on the table.]]

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: An inversion in a meta-way, since it's the authors and their close ones, not the fans, who mind on this one: due of the controversial nature of the sequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and, while not outright spelled as such, some authors, Creator/GeorgeRRMartin and Creator/TerryPratchett being most visible examples, had wrote post-mortem clauses to prevent either their families, their publishers or anyone else by the matter from continuing their works after their deaths, in an attempt to avoid a similar situation to befall on them.[[note]]Pratchett took an extra step after his 2015 death: He had his assistant Rob Wilkins destroy the hard disk of his computer, which included all his drafts... ''[[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill with a steamroller.]]''[[/note]]

* TheWikiRule: [[http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Dune Wiki]] and [[http://wiki.dune2k.com Dune2K Wiki.]]

* TropeNamer:
** GodEmperor
** SandWorm
** {{Wormsign}}

-->"I had the place, and the characters, and the thrust, for a monumental story, with a lot of action, people, evolutionary processes displayed. And it kept getting bigger. Of necessity. There were all kinds of things happening... Finally, I just took out how long it should be, and started building from the hack. Where does it have to go? So parts of ''Children of Dune'' and ''Dune Messiah'' were already written before I completed ''Dune''.

** Both the 1984 film and 2000 miniseries gave us "the Spice must flow" as if it was some kind of ArcWords of the novel.
* {{Defictionalization}}: The Lithany against Fear has been adopted unironically by fans in real life.
* DiedDuringProduction: Creator/FrankHerbert died in 1986, leaving the ''Dune'' series on an apparent massive cliffhanger. His son and Kevin J. Anderson continued the series to mixed critical and reader response.

* FranchiseZombie: Brian Herbert's and Kevin J. Anderson's books. While their plan was mainly to finish the trilogy that ''Chapterhouse: Dune'' started, they ended up doing a lot more than just that. On top of the two sequels, they have written six prequels and three midquels. Two more midquels are planned, as well as up to three more prequels. This will mean a grand total of ''sixteen'' books compared to Frank's six. This comes across to many as [[CashCowFranchise milking the cow a bit roughly]].

-->It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.\\

* DoingItForTheArt: ''Dune'' contains a sprawling universe adorned with myriad details and complicated histories, economics, and ecology. Creator/FrankHerbert loved to [[ShownTheirWork show his work]], as detailed below. It began as work for a newspaper article ("They Stopped the Moving Sands"), but he became so enthralled that it became a passionate epic. He never even got around to finishing that article.

* DisownedAdaptation: Herbert strongly disliked the direction Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky's version was going to take before the project's termination. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with ''Film/Dune1984'', which he was complimentary towards despite its contentious nature among fans and even Creator/DavidLynch himself.

* DisownedAdaptation: Herbert strongly disliked the direction Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky's version was going to take before the project's termination.

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** Several quotes from the [[Film/Dune1984 1984 film]] are widely assumed to be from the novel:

** Both the 1984 film and 2000 miniseries gave us "the Spice must flow".

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[[index]]
* ''Trivia/Dune1984''
* ''Trivia/DuneII''
* ''Trivia/EmperorBattleForDune''
* ''Trivia/FrankHerbertsDune''
* ''Trivia/FrankHerbertsChildrenOfDune''
* ''Trivia/Dune2021''
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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: An inversion in a meta-way, since it's the authors and their close ones, not the fans, who mind on this one: due of the controversial nature of the sequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and, while not outright spelled as such, some authors, Creator/GeorgeRRMartin and Creator/TerryPratchett being most visible examples, had wrote post-mortem clauses to prevent either their families, their publishers or anyone else by the matter from continuing their works after their deaths, in an attempt to avoid a similar situation to befall on them.[[note]]Pratchett took an extra step after his death: He ordered his daughter to destroy the hard disk of his computer, which included all his drafts... ''[[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill with a steamroller.]]''[[/note]]

* FanNickname:
** [[TheVerse The "Duniverse"]].
** There aren't any names applied to characters or concepts in-universe, but many have cropped up to describe {{Fandom}} opinion. Those that only consider the books written by Frank Herbert refer to themselves as "Orthodox Herbertarians", while fans of the prequels and sequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are called [[IncrediblyLamePun "preeqs"]]. Then the preeqs retalliated by calling the original fandom "Talifans".
** Also, the Herbert Jr. and Anderson books are often nicknamed "[[InNameOnly Mc Dune]]", since they are often accused of having ridiculous amounts of CanonDiscontinuity, {{Flanderization}}, ShrugOfGod and overall shoddy [[ClicheStorm writing quality]].
* OutlivedItsCreator: Since Frank Herbert's death, Brian Herbert (Frank's son) and Kevin J. Anderson have written a number of prequels and sequels.

* TropeNamer;

*** Dalí's case is particularly interesting, as he only agreed to appear in the film if he was paid an exorbant salary of $100,000 for every hour of screentime; Jodorowsky's response was to give him ''exactly'' one hour of screentime, with the Emperor's remaining scenes to be filled in by an animatronic fascimile. According to Creator/HRGiger (who was set to do character design work alongside Creator/{{Moebius}}), Dalí was eventually booted out due to statements he made supporting the quasi-fascist UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco dictatorship in Spain.

** The planned GrandFinale "Dune 7" was never finished, due to Creator/FrankHerbert's [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]].

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/FrankHerbert died in 1986, leaving the ''Dune'' series on an apparent massive cliffhanger. His son and Kevin J. Anderson continued the series to mixed critical and reader response.

*** Jodorowsky was planning to cast Creator/SalvadorDali as the Emperor, Creator/OrsonWelles as Baron Harkonen, Music/MickJagger as Feyd, Creator/GloriaSwanson as the Reverend Mother, Creator/CharlotteRampling as Lady Jessica and Creator/DavidCarradine as Duke Leto. Also, Jodorowsky cast his son Creator/BrontisJodorowsky as Paul Atreides, and had him go through several months training in martial arts and other various fighting styles before the project was shelved. Rampling would later play the Reverend Mother in ''Film/Dune2021''.

** The late Creator/ChristopherReeve was reportedly considered for the role at Paul in one of the earlier pre-Lynch periods - which makes the casting of Creator/KyleMacLachlan even funnier as he would later voice Superman in the animated feature ''Justice League: The New Frontier''.

*** Jodorowsky was planning to cast Creator/SalvadorDali as the Emperor, Creator/OrsonWelles as Baron Harkonen, Music/MickJagger as Feyd, Creator/GloriaSwanson as the Reverend Mother and Creator/DavidCarradine as Duke Leto. Also, Jodorowsky cast his son Creator/BrontisJodorowsky as Paul Atreides, and had him go through several months training in martial arts and other various fighting styles before the project was shelved.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: An inversion in a meta-way, since it's the authors and their close ones, not the fans, who mind on this one: due of the controversial nature of the sequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and, while not outright spelled as such, some authors, Creator/GeorgeRRMartin and Creator/TerryPratchett being most visible examples, had wrote post-mortem clauses to prevent either their families, their publishers or anyone else by the matter from continuing their works after their deaths, in an attempt to avoid a similar situation to befall on them.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: An inversion in a meta-way, since it's the authors and their close ones, not the fans, who mind on this one: due of the controversial nature of the sequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and, while not outright spelled as such, some authors, like Creator/GeorgeRRMartin for a most visible example, had wrote post-mortem clauses to prevent either their families, their publishers or anyone else by the matter from continuing their works after their deaths, in an attempt to avoid a similar situation to befall on them.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: An inversion in a meta-way, since it's the authors and their close ones, not the fans, who mind on this one: Due of the controversial nature of the sequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and, while not outright spelled as such, some authors, like Creator/GeorgeRRMartin for a most visible example, had wrote post-mortem clauses to prevent either their families, their publishers or anyone else by the matter from continuing their works after their deaths, in an attempt to avoid a similar situation to befall on them.

** Several quotes from the [[FilmDune1984 1984 film]] are widely assumed to be from the novel: