Dune: Part 1

[Opens Oct. 22 in theaters and available on HBO Max.] An amazing soundtrack, special effects, and sets dominate Denis Villeneuve's captivating, well-written, intense, fast-paced, star-studded (Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, Stephen McKinley, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Benjamin Clementine, and Sharon Duncan-Brewster), 155-minute, futuristic sci-fi thriller adapted from Frank Herbert's 1965 bestselling novel in which brilliant, skilled son Paul Atreides (Timothé Chalamet) and ducal heir travels with his Duke father (Oscar Isaac) and concubine mother (Rebecca Ferguson) in the year 10191 to the desolate, gargantuan sandworm-plagued Arrakis (aka Dune) planet to oversee the mining of a universally coveted spice and find themselves embroiled in a war when the House of Harkonnen baron (Stellan Skarsgård) attacks and a power struggle ensues between the two rival archenemy houses and puts the Fremen desert people (Javier Bardem, Zendaya, Babs Olusanmokun, et al.) in the middle.
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