Dune takes place some 20,000 years in the future, but even that only scratches the surface of the total timeframe explored in the Dune universe. Herbert's Dune prequel novels also delve into the past that led to the development of space-folding technology and the interplanetary feudal system.
What is Dune about? Dune is set roughly 20,000 years from now, in the year 10,191. In this future, humans have colonized planets all over the universe. There is a feudal interstellar society of various noble houses, who control planetary fiefs.
All the other planets in the solar system were colonized over time and ended up outnumbering Earth's population. This expansion period was called Little Diaspora. Earth is barely mentioned throughout the Dune saga, aside from leaders and others acknowledging that the planet is generally gone, dead, and/or dying.
Earth is rarely mentioned in Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles. The God-Emperor Leto II acknowledges the planet as no longer existing, which the religious Bene Gesserit confirm, calling Earth “gone.” Besides references to historical Earth leaders and art, Earth appears mysteriously erased.
In the old “semi-canon”, Earth had been seriously damaged in a catastrophe but was rebuilt as a legally depopulated wildlife garden by the Imperium. In the current canon, the planet was rendered unlivable due to a nuclear attack (think: hundreds of thousands of megaton level nukes) by humans on the planet.
Swords and blades are more effective weapons against shields than guns due to the physics of kinetic energy and the speed of projectiles, making close-range combat essential in Dune. Additionally, hybrid pistols loaded with poisonous darts are used instead of traditional bullets to avoid attracting sandworms.
The complex story of Dune, set thousands of years in the future, revolves around power struggles, a desert planet called Arrakis, and the valuable spice that controls the empire.
All of the people/characters in Dune are human, descended from ancestors from Earth. There are, so far as the original books are concerned, no known alien races as of yet in the timeline.
In Dune, Arrakis is the most important planet in the universe, as it is the only source of the drug melange. Melange (or, "the spice") is the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe, as it extends life and makes safe interstellar travel possible (among other uses).
Yes. The Dune universe is our universe, set so far into the future that earth is a distant, almost forgotten myth. The only intelligent beings are humans. We colonised the galaxy, but never encountered another civilisation.
The biggest Dune controversy was rooted in how the book is a complex epic about the dangers of messianic prophecies, which doesn't immediately read as a fun affair. The film follows three major groups: House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and the Fremen.
When used after a date, the acronym B.G. refers to "Before Guild", meaning that was the year prior to the Spacing Guild's monopoly on all space travel, transport, and Imperial banking. The acronym can also refer to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.
While it seems little more than a piece of worldbuilding in a story, the hostile stance against computers and AI in “Dune” is connected to themes of furthering human potential over artificial constructs.
The Butlerian Jihad and resulting peace culminated in a commandment in the Orange Catholic Bible, the most popular religious text of the era. That book insisted "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." As a result, thinking machines became illegal to create or own.
Gigantic villain Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) is nearly poisoned by the captured Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), who releases the gas capsule placed in his mouth. But grievously harmed Harkonnen escapes by air, by kicking the anti-gravity device he needs to move about into instant overdrive.
He spends the rest of his life regretting his choices. So, while Paul may not be a 'bad guy', he also isn't a hero. He is a cautionary tale of the dangers of a charismatic hero. The Fremen fall into the trap of following his lead, and he basically destroys their society, and their world of Dune.
Princess Irulan is Paul's wife in name only and for purely political reasons. Chani is his life partner, and Paul refuses to have sex with Irulan. Despite this, the Bene Gesserit still try to control his “precious Atreides genes” and ask him to have a child with Irulan (728).
Herbert notes that over 10,000 years before the events of Dune, in the chaotic time after the Butlerian Jihad and before the unveiling of the Orange Catholic Bible, the Bene Gesserit "consolidated their hold upon the sorceresses, explored the subtle narcotics, developed prana-bindu training and conceived the ...
According to The Dune Encyclopedia, some thousands of years after the solar system had been colonized by humans and then controlled by the Guild, Earth was hit by another "planetoid" and nearly destroyed. At the time, inhabitants of the rest of the solar system outnumbered the people of Earth, twenty to one.
The movie, primarily set on the desert planet Arrakis, was filmed in four distinct locations: Wadi Rum in Jordan, the desert areas near Abu Dhabi, the northwestern coast of Norway, and the soundstages at Origo Studio in Budapest.
Without melange, the Spacing Guild's heighliners could not move ... Without melange and its amplification of the human immunogenic system, life expectancy for the very rich degenerated by a factor of at least four.
