Dune author Frank Herbert’s son offers verdict on new movie sequel

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The son of Dune author Frank Herbert has given his verdict on the new movie adaptation Dune: Part Two.

Directed by Denis Villenueve, the movie is the second half of a a two-part adaptation of Herbert’s unique Dune novel.

Reviews for Part Two have been printed earlier this week, with the movie incomes a positively glowing 97 per cent optimistic rating on the overview aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes.

Agreeing with the consensus was Brian Herbert, the elder son of the unique Dune author. After Herbert’s dying in 1986, Brian started publishing further sequels and prequels to the franchise, written alongside Kevin J Anderson and utilising his late father’s notes.

On Saturday (24 February), Brian shared his ideas on the new sequel, writing on X/Twitter: “I saw Dune: Part Two at a private studio screening, and it is gratifying to see my father’s story told with such great care.

“When the new movie is combined with Dune: Part One it is by far the best film interpretation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel DUNE that has ever been done.”

Part One was launched in 2021, and was a field workplace hit regardless of being impacted by the Covid pandemic. The new sequel is out on 1 March, having been delayed for a number of months because of the actors and writers strikes.

The Dune novels have been tailored a number of occasions earlier than for movie and TV, together with an notorious 1984 adaptation by David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan.

Dune: Part Two options an all-star forged that features Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, and Christopher Walken.

In a five-star overview for The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey wrote: “There are moments in Dune: Part Two that feel so audacious, they play out as if they were already etched onto the cinematic canon. A lone figure stands astride a mountainous worm as it pummels through the sand like Moses parting the Red Sea. A man is trapped by a psychic seduction, its effects splintering across the screen in what could only be described as an indoor thunderstorm. Gladiatorial combat takes place on a planet with an environment so inhospitable, its colours so drained, that it looks almost like a photographic negative.

“Dune: Part Two, like its predecessor, is a work of total sensory and imaginative immersion. As precious as the spice of Arrakis itself, it’s the ultimate payoff to 2021’s great gamble, when filmmaker Denis Villeneuve chose to adapt half of Frank Herbert’s foundational sci-fi novel, with no guarantee a sequel would ever be made.”

Dune: Part Two is launched in cinemas within the UK on 1 March.