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Dune's eponymous album is the second best derivative of Frank Herbert's Dune... ranked just under the computer game Dune 2000.

The original Dune computer game is ranked third, followed by the 1984 movie (accepting that it was pretty terrible), then the most recent movies which I'll count as one unit (pretty and all, but so mehhhh), and at the bottom some other terrible TV/streaming thing I was unfortunate enough to watch a few years ago.

There may be other derivatives of Dune but I have not seen them.

I count the other Herbert novels as kinda just part of Dune. I am not sure what to count the posthumous stuff as, I mainly pretend it doesn't exist.

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groff 🇺🇦4d ago

@yvan It's a shame Alexandro Jodorowsky's vision for Dune was never completed. Did you see the documentary about it? https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Dune_(unreleased_film)

Dune (unreleased film)

"I have seen the script and it's a damn good script. I'll believe it when I see it.[1]" ―Frank Herbert Dune (Alexandro Jodorowsky) is a cancelled movie proposed by Chilean-French cult film director and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky, and produced by French businessman Michel Seydoux, in 1974. This production became the subject of a documentary released in 2013, Jorodowsky's Dune. The film rights for an adaptation of Dune had been originally purchased by Apjac International (APJ) in 1971, but...

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Yvan 4d ago

@geoffl I haven't seen the documentary, though now you mention it I realise I kinda glossed over the whole area of artwork... of which I have seen a lot, including Mobius concept art! It's kinda a whole other field of derivative works (one could also include the various book cover art too.)

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groff 🇺🇦4d ago

@yvan
I've watched it a few times since it was released. Would watch again. I think it's available to stream on Apple TV or Prime or...
https://youtu.be/X8R_lvfKo10
with translated subtitles for the bits not in English.

I quite enjoyed the 1980s film but I hadn't read Dune then and had no preconceptions.

M Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) OmeU

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Yvan 4d ago

@geoffl I had read the book prior to watching the 1980s film, which I probably watched some time in the mid-90s, maybe later (and I have watched it at least twice since). It's kinda fun, and it is of its era... possibly ahead of its own time even? It got me started as a fan of David Lynch.

I watched the second of the new movies recently and it's in this kinda crap place of trying to take it all too seriously, whilst not really taking it seriously enough in doing so. It just felt kinda long and pointless.

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Yvan

@geoffl feeling inclined to re-watch the Lynch one now actually, it has been a while since I last watched it.

I think my "pretty terrible" above was a bit harsh actually 😂 ... could be a nicer way of putting it.