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Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’ (variety.com)
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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was "Holy shit it's the Butlerian Jihad"

[–] Tehgingey@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better"

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

To be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).