Game of Thrones: The Sci-Fi Version
...would be the best way to explain this film to anyone under 30.
Send her to the snakes!
The story is very dense and has many characters, but it is more linear than Game of Thrones. I'd love to see Dune given the production attention that Game of Thrones has received, but I doubt that will ever happen.
Incidentally, I somewhat recently explained this to someone under 30. I spent quite a bit of time on the explanation, but it led to this person taking up and reading the first book and now wanting to read all of the original series.
Yeah, that's a good point, pope_duke. You see a lot of suggestions about taking a GoT style approach to Dune--which I get--but it's not quite that simple. Structuring this particular story so that it works in the ebb and flow of episodic television would require moving some pieces around, expanding certain things. Every episode would have to have its own arc, not to mention the season overall. Not impossible, but GoT with it's multiple characters and various stories within stories is vastly different from the structure of Dune despite their superficial similarities.
Personally I'm still in favor of keeping it a feature film and breaking it into two parts, but right now I'd say the GoT style series is the far more likely option.
Incidentally, I somewhat recently explained this to someone under 30. I spent quite a bit of time on the explanation, but it led to this person taking up and reading the first book and now wanting to read all of the original series.
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A trilogy would best serve a big-screen Dune adaptation. The first book itself is broken up into three parts.
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