Fuck this shit. I'm out...

I still haven't read the book yet but I take this to mean that the 3rd installment doesn't follow the book - that it's more true to zendaya (?; I still don't know who she is; I've been meaning to look up why she seems popular but haven't had sufficient interest to do so) than to the original story.

Or perhaps #3 doesn't generally follow the book at all?

The changes they did to Chani in Part 1 and Part 2 weren't horrible, but lack a good reason to do it in the movies. There is no possible way in Dune Messiah that Chani would fall in with the antagonists other than casting a self absorbed, self righteous SoCal girl so Zendaya Coleman could play her from experience.

I'm also going to call it now that they're going to use the line from Paul in Part 2 about how Chani "will come around in the end" to redeem the the Zendaya twat who's more ghola than Duncan Idaho to absolve her of her actions.

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I don't know the storyline so don't know what to expect but I thought that the fremen (including chani?) were good guys and that that Paul starts as a good guy but #2 suggested he becomes a bad guy? Again, not sure and planning to read the book soon ahead of #3 release.

The antagonists are the emperor and the ??? (I forgot who the bad guys were called in #1/2). So the preview suggests that Chani sides w/ the emperor / ??? ? I didn't really understand the preview. I couldn't even recognize Paul.

I don't get the Chani character role other than perhaps love interest / support for Paul. She doesn't seem like a leader, doesn't seem particularly competent or capable of anything special, doesn't seem to matter much. Perhaps she's more relevant in the book.

I just finished the McDevitt books and the Old Testament. Maybe I'll start Dune as I start the New Testament.

I never read Dune Messiah, so I don’t have any expectations with regard to whether it follows the book or not. I just hope it’s a good movie and holds my interest.

There are no real good guys in Dune. The Fremen are better than the Harkonens, but they are still a pretty savage group of extremists. The Atredis start out as probably the closest thing to good guys, but once they move to Arrakis and things play out as they do, Paul finds himself having to do some pretty shady things first to stay alive and then to steer humanity away from either stagnation or destruction. The scope of just how horrible some of these things are sets the stage for the 3rd and later books in the series.

God Emperor of Dune is where things get weird. At his worst Paul was a saint compared to what Leto II does in the name of putting humanity in the Golden Path.

I love the first book. I enjoyed the recent movies other than the absolute butchering of Chami as a character. I’ve got no interest in seeing Part 3.