Dune recap: What happened in Part One of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic?
The deserts of the planet Arrakis are a hostile place for outsiders. There’s the heat. The wind. The perishing thirst. Take just a few errant steps, and you’ll find yourself falling into the maw of a giant sandworm.
The story of Dune can be just as unforgiving an environment for those unfamiliar with the terrain. In adapting Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel, Denis Villeneuve’s two Dune films have condensed and simplified aspects of the, but it’s still a lot to get your head around – from the invented jargon (Fremen? ? ?) to the political and religious twists and turns of the story.
