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Dune is a prophetic tale about the environmental apocalypse that boundless Western greed has subjected the Earth to in 21st century, writes OLI MOULD
PREDICTABLE NOMEN OMEN: ‘Vadimir’ (Dave Bautista) as leader of House Harkonnen [IMDb]

DIRECTOR Denis Villeneuve’s most recent sci-fi epic is the latest attempt to tell the story of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed 1965 novel, Dune.

The film is set millennia in the future when the galaxy is ruled by a class of family houses.

Each house battles for control over the most valuable resource in the galaxy, “spice” — a powerful hallucinogen that also happens to power interstellar travel.

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