Dune has had its ... Scott and Alejandro Jodorowsky also made their own efforts that never came to fruition. Herbert himself also made an attempt to commit his book to celluloid with a whopping ...

(Jodorowsky was set to cast his own son as Paul Atreides, which is just one of the thousand hubristic reasons that funding was pulled.) The trouble with Dune as a movie is that Herbert’s book is ...