Dune

Villeneuve's films and Dune: Prophecy, plus the Lynch and Sci-Fi Channel adaptations.

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Where to start with Dune

Two recent films that are one story split in half, a television prequel set ten thousand years earlier, and three older adaptations of the same novel. Start with the recent films; everything else is optional and some of it is very optional.

  1. 1
    Dune (2021) Dune

    Roughly the first half of the 1965 novel, and it ends without resolving: that is deliberate rather than a fault, but it means going in knowing there is a second half.

  2. 2
    Dune: Part Two (2024) Dune: Part Two

    The other half, and the two together are one film in every way that matters. Best watched close together; the gap between them is where most people lose the thread of the names.

  3. 3
    Dune: Prophecy, series 1 Dune: Prophecy

    Six episodes set ten thousand years before the films, about how the Bene Gesserit came to be. Entirely optional, and it makes far more sense once you have seen what that order becomes.

Then what? Dune: Part Three is due in December 2026 and adapts the second novel. The 1984 David Lynch film and the two early-2000s miniseries are separate adaptations of the same books rather than parts of this story: the miniseries covers more of the plot, the Lynch film is the more interesting failure, and neither is needed.

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The Villeneuve Films

  • Dune 2021
  • Dune: Part Two 2024
  • Dune: Part Three 2026, not out yet

Television

  • Dune: Prophecy 2024, 1 season, 6 episodes

Earlier Adaptations

  • Dune 1984
  • Frank Herbert's Dune 2000, 1 season, 3 episodes
  • Frank Herbert's Children of Dune 2003, 1 season, 3 episodes

Frank Herbert's Novels

  • Dune 1965
  • Dune Messiah 1969
  • Children of Dune 1976
  • God Emperor of Dune 1981
  • Heretics of Dune 1984
  • Chapterhouse: Dune 1985

The Herbert and Anderson Novels

  • Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 2002
  • Dune: The Machine Crusade 2003
  • Dune: The Battle of Corrin 2004
  • Sisterhood of Dune 2012
  • Mentats of Dune 2014
  • Navigators of Dune 2016
  • Dune: House Atreides 1999
  • Dune: House Harkonnen 2000
  • Dune: House Corrino 2001
  • Princess of Dune 2023
  • Dune: The Duke of Caladan 2020
  • Dune: The Lady of Caladan 2021
  • Dune: The Heir of Caladan 2022
  • Paul of Dune 2008
  • The Winds of Dune 2009
  • Hunters of Dune 2006
  • Sandworms of Dune 2007

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