Ranking All The Dune Adaptations (According To IMDb)

Ranking All The Dune Adaptations (According To IMDb)

Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ can be difficult to adapt, but incredibly rewarding for those who can break the code and succeed.

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There are some things in media, like plays, and books, that would either be difficult to adapt to film, or just impossible. Taking something created in one medium and porting it to another is never easy, and if it’s something that has a huge, cult fan base, that makes it even more difficult. Dune is a great example of this. Frank Herbert’s Dune was originally published in 1965, and even then it was a difficult and challenging novel to understand, much less finish.

It came with a nearly 30-page glossary in the back just to explain the basic terms and characters involved in the main story. And it was huge, a near doorstop of a novel. Critical reception was good, it tied for the Hugo award and won the Nebula outright. Some have even called it the ‘greatest science fiction novel ever.’ It has been attempted several times over with Dune, to somewhat mixed results.

5 Dune (1984) – 6.4

For the most part, Dune (1984) is a movie famous for what it isn’t more than what it actually is. David Lynch’s version of Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction novel ran into many problems during both preproduction and during filming. Even at 2 hours and 17 minutes, it’s too short to contain more than just a few highlights of the famously lengthy novel and feels too long.

When it premiered in 1984, it was to mostly negative reviews, disappointed fans, and poor box office intake, losing a good chunk of its 40 million dollar budget. Lynch considers it the only failure of his career. In hindsight, maybe a great adaptation of the novel just couldn’t have been done in 1984.

4 Dune (2000) – 7.0

Dune is an incredibly influential novel, so much so that people keep returning to it year after year, hoping to make the definitive version. This is the second attempt at a Dune adaptation that actually made it to completion, done for the SyFy channel in 2000. Most fans would say it’s better, with more time to tell the complicated story, but still falls a little short of the mark. While the producers had more time, the TV budget shows through here and there, and the writers decided to create storylines that were not in the book – like an affair between Irulan and Feyd that was met with some controversy.

While many of the special effects are lacking, overall, many fans familiar with the original novels were content, giving it a higher score than the previous effort. The ratings success of this miniseries and the international rights sales led directly to Children of Dune in 2003.

3 Children Of Dune (2004) – 7.4

The direct sequel to 2000’s SyFy’s Dune, Children of Dune combines elements of the novels Children of Dune and Dune Messiah. Fan reaction, as well as critical reception, were overall positive, with some reservations. The problems all Dune adaptations face are themes, the sheer number of characters, and length.

Herbert’s themes can be complex, and not always clear even on multiple readings. The number of characters is also problematic for a straight adaptation, sometimes making them seem more soap opera than intended. Also, the books are long and often contain events that seem peripheral at first glance. All this weighs against the screenwriter, as does fan expectation. Reception to the two SyFy series was positive and thought to have mostly done justice to the novels.

2 Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013) – 8.1

Years ago, MGM Studios, in a house cleaning move, took the negative to Eric von Stroheim’s director’s cut of his masterpiece Greed, (1924) which was some nine hours of never seen film, (that had been chopped to 2 hours during initial release) and burned it. This is what Hollywood thinks of a director’s ‘vision.’ Alejandro Jodorowsky never had a chance.

Jodorowsky’s LDS-like vision of Dune, with a phone book-like script by Frank Herbert himself, might have been one of the best movies never made. It probably never had any reality behind it, but it would have been an incredible cinematic vision, with Orson Welles as the Baron and H. R. Giger on production design. It was a wild, mad dream that left beautiful visions behind it, but he came close.

1 Dune (2021) – 8.4

Director Denis Villeneuve’s version of Dune is really two films, as Hollywood has gotten smarter over the years and understands a book as epic as Dune cannot be contained in one film. Plus they’re looking for a new franchise. Many are surprised it took them this long to figure out that Herbert’s books contain source material for many franchises. There are several by Herbert, as well as those later commissioned by Herbert’s estate to draw from, a nearly endless source.

This version will also have a spinoff series, Dune: The Sisterhood premiering on HBO Max. Dune is being received well so far, much better than most of its predecessors. Whether Denis Villeneuve has finally broken the code to a successful adaptation will be left to history and the fans to judge, but the critics the reviews have been very good, even from fans of the books looking to find things to criticize.

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