I am wondering about Chalamet playing older Paul as well. It will be interesting to see where it goes.  Did I read that the second movie will end with book two? In which case he won’t be too much older. 

I just finished watching the movie, and without having read the books, it captivated me. I've seen criticism of the movie for cutting some of the background that explained the politics of the world, but in my unread opinion, less is more. I didn't miss the background too much because in the end, it feels like the story is already clear.

Finding out why evil people are evil doesn't always need to happen, at least not immediately. For a two part series that had to get a strong response to get its sequel green-lighted, I think it did a perfectly good job of it.

In a way, it even gave me just the slightest taste of the Faded Sun Trilogy. It's only a superficial comparison: Desert tribes that fight with swords and knives instead of rifles, a man going out to live amongst those tribes and survive and learn among them. I think it's the closest I'll ever come to seeing it.

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I always thought of the Dune-verse as Persian/ Ottoman Turk rather than straight up Arabic, m'self.

Went a watched your link video. Interesting. Nice she's able to live like that. Not sure I'd be able to. I liken myself to an oak: aged, thrawn and deep rooted. Only move with great difficult--but boy, when I do, look out.
 

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I finished my re-read of the first book, and I'm glad I made the effort.  I did not find it disappointing.  What does continue to surprise me is how little of the detail of the story I have retained.  The overall shape of the story I seem to remember fine - he arrival, the betrayal, the escape to the desert, joining with the Fremen and so on right up to what feels now to be a very abrupt resolution - but the details (eg the traitor's identity, Jessica's parentage, Alia's nature) had all gone.

A couple more points from my re-reading notes, for completeness:
-The ecology lecturing from a suffering heat-addled Kynes as he succumbs seems a bit forced, but I can see how that in combination with the world-building appendices serves to boost the books ecological credentials
- a surfeit of self-important pomposity and superficial gravitas in several characters' internal pov self-dialogues exacerbates the overall sense of foreboding and plot foreshadowing and lifts the whole story and its invented mythology into the realms of genuine melodrama imnsho.  And I think thats what I most remember about first encountering this book so many years ago - the meta-story rather than the actual story, if you will.

Anyway, I am now definitely looking forward to seeing this new movie version on the big screen when it gets here.
 

It's interesting, most people think it was well done and that some of the excesses of the Lynch version were excised in an appropriate manner.  But, I don't see a lot of the excitement for this version that was seen in the previous one.