At this point, Dune is a household name thanks to the wildly successful film trilogy from director Denis Villeneuve that stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
But it’s not the first time the first Dune novel has been adapted for the big screen by a major director—in fact, an earlier adaptation is now available to watch for free on the ad-supported service Tubi.
David Lynch, the king of surrealism, was hired to adapt the 1965 novel by Brian Herbert for the screen.
It seems like it should’ve been a match made in heaven, what with Dune being a pretty weird book and Lynch being an even weirder guy. Big names like Kyle MacLachlan, Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Sting appear in the film, too, so on paper it seems like it could’ve been a smash hit.
Unfortunately, the film was poorly received and underperformed at the box office.
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