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Dune: Part 2 tries to balance the book’s canon with creative license (spoilers)


When I watched the start of Denis Villaneuve's first Dune movie (2021) with my kid, it was a special moment that took me back decades.

We’re thrilled to open our call for speakers to our flagship event, GamesBeat Summit 2024 hosted in Los Angeles, where we will explore the theme of “Resilience and Adaption”. Passages such as the Litany Against Fear — told in terse ways where you can get inside the mind of a character — were what made the original book and the first movie into masterpieces of science fiction. Austin Butler plays Feyd Rautha in Dune: Part 2.The film does a good job depicting the cruelty and sexual violence of the Harkonnens, the evil great house that does the dirty work of the emperor.

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