Dune (franchise)#The Corrino-led Imperium

The Dune saga is set thousands of years in humanity's future. Faster-than-light travel has been developed, and humans have colonized a vast number of worlds. However, a great reaction against computers has resulted in a ban on any "thinking machine", with the creation or possession of such punishable by immediate death. Despite this prohibition, humanity continues to develop and advance other branches of technology, including extrasensory perception (ESP) and instruments of war. At the time of the first book's setting, humanity has formed a feudal interstellar empire known as the Imperium, run by several Great Houses that oversee various planets. Of key interest is the planet Arrakis, known to the native population as "Dune". A desert planet with barely any precipitation, it is the only planet where a special life-extending drug, melange (or "the spice"), can be found. In addition to life extension, melange enhances the mental capacity of humans through prescience, allowing the Spacing Guild pilots (mutated by heavy melange use) to navigate folded space and travel the distances between planets; and triggers some of the powers of the Bene Gesserit, a religious group that secretly seeks to control the direction humanity takes. Melange is challenging to acquire due to the harsh environment of Arrakis, and the presence of giant sandworms that are drawn towards any rhythmic sounds on the sands of the desert. Feudal control over the fiefdom Arrakis, its spice production, and the impact on humanity's development become the centerpoints of a millennia-long conflict that develops through the series.

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| Title |Date

| "Dune: Hunting Harkonnens" |2002

| Dune: The Butlerian Jihad |2002

| "Dune: Whipping Mek" |2003

| Dune: The Machine Crusade |2003

| "Dune: The Faces of a Martyr" |2004

| Dune: The Battle of Corrin |2004

| Sisterhood of Dune |2012

| Mentats of Dune |2014

| "Dune: Red Plague" |2016

| Navigators of Dune |2016

| "Dune: Imperial Court" |2022

| "Dune: The Edge of a Crysknife" |2022

| Dune: House Atreides |1999

| Dune: House Harkonnen |2000

| Dune: House Corrino |2001

| Paul of Dune (Part II) |2008

| "Dune: Wedding Silk" (set between chapters 4 and 6 of Part II of Paul of Dune) |2011

| Paul of Dune (Parts IV & VI) |2008

| The Winds of Dune (Part II, excluding the Interlude section) |2009

| Princess of Dune |2023

| Dune: The Duke of Caladan |2020

| Dune: The Lady of Caladan |2021

| Dune: The Heir of Caladan |2022

| Dune (Book I: Dune) |1963–1964

| "Dune: Blood of the Sardaukar" (set during the end of Book I of Dune) |2019

| "Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas" (set during the end of Book I of Dune) |2001

| Dune (Book II: Muad'Dib) |1965

| "Dune: The Waters of Kanly" |2017

| Dune (Book III: The Prophet) |1965

| Paul of Dune (Parts I, III, V, & VII) |2008

| The Winds of Dune (Part IV, excluding the Interlude section) |2009

| "The Road to Dune" |1985

| Dune Messiah |1969

| The Winds of Dune (Part I, the Interlude section from Part II, Part III, the Interlude section from Part IV, & Part V) |2009

| Children of Dune |1976

| God Emperor of Dune |1981

| Heretics of Dune |1984

| Chapterhouse: Dune |1985

| "Dune: Sea Child" |2006

| Hunters of Dune |2006

| "Dune: Treasure in the Sand" |2006

| Sandworms of Dune |2007

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The Dune universe, set in the distant future of humanity, has a history that stretches thousands of years (some 15,000 years in total) and covers considerable changes in political, social, and religious structure as well as technology. Creative works set in the Dune universe can be said to fall into five general time periods:

• The Butlerian Jihad
• Legends of Dune prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Great Schools of Dune prequel trilogy (2012–2016) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
• The Corrino-led Imperium
• Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
• Heroes of Dune series (2008–2023) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
• The Caladan Trilogy (2020–2022) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
• The rise of the Atreides
• Heroes of Dune series (2008–2023) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
• Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
• Dune Messiah (1969) by Frank Herbert
• Children of Dune (1976) by Frank Herbert
• The reign and fall of the God Emperor
• God Emperor of Dune (1981) by Frank Herbert
• The return from the Scattering
• Heretics of Dune (1984) by Frank Herbert
• Chapterhouse: Dune (1985) by Frank Herbert
• Hunters of Dune (2006) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
• Sandworms of Dune (2007) by Brian Herbert and Anderson

As explained in Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |url=https://archive.org/details/dune0000herb|url-access=registration |chapter=Appendix II: The Religion of Dune |year=1965 |quote=Mankind's movement through deep space placed a unique stamp on religion during the one hundred and ten centuries that preceded the Butlerian Jihad.}} (and over 10,000 years before the events of Dune), which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots". With the prohibition "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," the creation of even the simplest thinking machines is outlawed and made taboo, which has a profound influence on the socio-political and technological development of humanity in the Dune series.{{Cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/58/ditom58art.htm|title=History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert's Dune|last=Lorenzo|first=DiTommaso|date=November 1992|work=Science Fiction Studies|issue=58|volume=19|via=DePauw.edu|pages=311–325|access-date=July 21, 2009|archive-date=October 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017124444/http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/58/ditom58art.htm|url-status=live}} Herbert refers to the Jihad several times in the novels, but does not give much detail on how he imagined the causes and nature of the conflict. Critical analysis has often associated the term with Samuel Butler and his 1863 essay "Darwin among the Machines", which advocated the destruction of all advanced machines.{{cite web|url=http://spartanideas.msu.edu/2016/03/29/8624/|title=The Butlerian Jihad and 'Darwin among the Machines'|date=March 29, 2016|first=Stephen|last=Hsu|via=spartanideas.msu.edu|access-date=December 26, 2019|archive-date=December 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224064246/https://spartanideas.msu.edu/2016/03/29/8624/|url-status=live}}

In Herbert's God Emperor of Dune (1981), Leto II Atreides indicates that the Jihad had been a semi-religious social upheaval initiated by humans who felt repulsed by how guided and controlled they had become by machines.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=God Emperor of Dune |year=1981 |quote=The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines...Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.}} This technological reversal leads to the creation of the universal Orange Catholic Bible and the rise of a new feudal pan-galactic empire that lasts for over 10,000 years before Herbert's series begins.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |url=https://archive.org/details/dune0000herb |url-access=registration |year=1965}}{{cite web|url=http://brianpherbert.com/timeline.html |title=Official site: Dune novels timeline|website=BrianPHerbert.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413030243/http://brianpherbert.com/timeline.html |archive-date=April 13, 2012 |url-status=usurped |last=Torkos |first=Attila |date=December 2, 2006|access-date=December 26, 2019}} Several secret societies also develop, using eugenics programs, intensive mental and physical training, and pharmaceutical enhancements to hone human skills to an astonishing degree. Artificial insemination is also prohibited, as explained in Dune Messiah (1969), when Paul Atreides negotiates with the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, who is appalled by Paul's suggestion that he impregnate his consort in this manner.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune Messiah |year=1969}}

Herbert died in 1986,{{cite web |url=http://www.scifidimensions.com/Aug07/sandwormsofdune.htm |title=Audiobook Review: Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson |last=Snider |first=John C. |date=August 2007 |publisher=SciFiDimensions.com |access-date=June 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513064723/http://www.scifidimensions.com/Aug07/sandwormsofdune.htm |archive-date=May 13, 2008}} leaving his vision of the events of the Butlerian Jihad unexplored and open to speculation. The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson presents the Jihad as a war between humans and the sentient machines they had created, who rise up and nearly destroy humanity.{{cite serial |last=Herbert |first=Brian |author2=Kevin J. Anderson |title=Legends of Dune |date=2002–2004}} The series explains that humanity had become entirely complacent and dependent upon thinking machines; recognizing this weakness, a group of ambitious, militant humans calling themselves the Titans use this widespread reliance on machine intelligence to seize control of the entire universe. Their reign lasts for a century; eventually they give too much access and power to the AI program Omnius, which usurps control from the Titans themselves. Seeing no value in human life, the thinking machines—now including armies of robot soldiers and other aggressive machines—dominate and enslave nearly all of humanity in the universe for 900 years, until a jihad is ignited. This crusade against the machines lasts for almost a century, with much loss of human life but ultimately ending in human victory.

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The ancient Battle of Corrin—occurring 20 years after the end of the Butlerian Jihad—spawns the Padishah Emperors of House Corrino, who rule the known universe for millennia by controlling the Sardaukar, a brutally efficient military force. Ten thousand years later, Imperial power is balanced by the assembly of noble houses called the Landsraad, which enforces the Great Convention's ban on the use of atomics against human targets. Though the power of the Corrinos is unrivaled by any individual House, they are in constant competition with each other for political power and stakes in the omnipresent CHOAM company, a directorship that controls the wealth of the entire Empire. The third primary power in the universe is the Spacing Guild, which monopolizes interstellar travel and banking. Mutated Guild Navigators use the spice drug melange to successfully navigate "folded space" and safely guide enormous heighliner starships from planet to planet instantaneously.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |url=https://archive.org/details/dune0000herb |url-access=registration |year=1965 |quote=We've a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Federated Great Houses of the Landsraad, and between them, the Guild with its damnable monopoly on interstellar transport.}}

The matriarchal Bene Gesserit possesses almost superhuman physical, sensory, and deductive powers developed through years of physical and mental conditioning. While positioning themselves to "serve" humanity, the Bene Gesserit pursue their goal to better the human race by subtly and secretly guiding and manipulating the affairs of others to serve their own purposes. By the time of Dune, they have secured a level of control over the current emperor, Shaddam IV, by marrying him to one of their own who intentionally bears him only daughters. The Bene Gesserit also has a secret, millennia-long selective breeding program to bolster and preserve valuable skills and bloodlines as well as to produce a theoretical superhuman male they call the Kwisatz Haderach. When Dune begins, the Sisterhood is only one generation away from their desired individual, having manipulated the threads of genes and power for thousands of years to produce the required confluence of events. But Lady Jessica, ordered by the Bene Gesserit to produce a daughter who would breed with the appropriate male to make the Kwisatz Haderach, instead bears a son—unintentionally producing the Kwisatz Haderach a generation early.

"Human computers" known as Mentats have been developed and perfected to replace the capacity for logical analysis lost through the prohibition of computers. Through specific training, they learn to enter a heightened mental state in which they can perform complex logical computations that are superior to those of the ancient thinking machines.{{cite web|url=https://nerdist.com/article/dune-mentats/|title=Who Are the Mentats in Dune?|first=Rose|last=Bueno|website=Nerdist|date=July 30, 2019|access-date=July 31, 2019|archive-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416180541/https://nerdist.com/article/dune-mentats/|url-status=live}} The Bene Tleilax are amoral merchants who traffic in biological and genetically engineered products such as artificial eyes, "twisted" Mentats, and gholas. Finally, the Ixians produce cutting-edge technology that seemingly complies with (but pushes the boundaries of) the prohibitions against thinking machines. The Ixians are very secretive, not only to protect their valuable hold on the industry but also to hide any methods or inventions that may breach the anti-thinking machine protocols.

Against this backdrop, the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) chronicles the return from obscurity of House Atreides, whose role in the Butlerian Jihad is all but forgotten. The Imperial House schemes to gain full control of the Empire through the control of melange, precisely at the time that the Bene Gesserit breeding program is nearing fruition.{{cite serial |last=Herbert |first=Brian |author2=Kevin J. Anderson |title=Prelude to Dune |date=1999–2001}}

{{redirect|House Atreides|the family in Greek mythology|Atreus#The House of Atreus}}

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As Frank Herbert's Dune (1965) begins, Duke Leto Atreides finds himself in a dangerous position. The 81st Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV, has put him in control of the desert planet Arrakis, known as Dune, which is the only source of the all-important spice melange.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/dune-endures |title=Dune Endures |first=Jon |last=Michaud |magazine=The New Yorker |date=July 12, 2013 |access-date=August 18, 2015 |archive-date=August 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822023640/http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/dune-endures |url-status=live }} The most valuable commodity in the known universe, the spice not only makes safe and reliable interstellar travel possible, but also prolongs life, protects against disease, and is used by the Bene Gesserit to enhance their abilities. The potential financial gains for House Atreides are mitigated by the fact that mining melange from the desert surface of Arrakis is an expensive and hazardous undertaking, thanks to the treacherous environment and constant threat of giant sandworms that protect the spice. In addition, Leto is aware that Shaddam, feeling threatened by the rising power and influence of the Atreides, has sent him into a trap. Failure to meet or exceed the production volume of his predecessor, the villainous Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, will harm the position of House Atreides in CHOAM, which relies on spice profits. Further, the very presence of the Atreides on Arrakis inflames the long-simmering War of Assassins between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, a feud ignited 10,000 years before when an Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after the Butlerian Jihad.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses) |year=1965 |quote=Vladimir Harkonnen...the direct-line male descendant of the Bashar Abulurd Harkonnen who was banished for cowardice after the Battle of Corrin.}}{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |url=https://archive.org/details/dune0000herb |url-access=registration |year=1965 |quote=The Baron cannot forget that Leto is a cousin of the royal blood—no matter what the distance—while the Harkonnen titles came out of the CHOAM pocketbook. But the poison in him, deep in his mind, is the knowledge that an Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after the Battle of Corrin.}}

The little-understood native population of Arrakis are the Fremen, long overlooked by the Imperium. Considered backward savages, the Fremen are extremely hardy people and exist in large numbers; their culture is built around the commodity of water, which is extremely scarce on Arrakis. The Fremen await the coming of a prophesied messiah, not suspecting that this prophecy had been planted in their legends by the Missionaria Protectiva, an arm of the Bene Gesserit dedicated to religious manipulation to ease the path of the Sisterhood when necessary. In Dune, the so-called "Arrakis Affair" puts unexpected Kwisatz Haderach Paul Atreides in control of first the Fremen people and then Arrakis itself. Absolute control over the spice supply allows Paul to depose Shaddam and become ruler of the known universe, with Shaddam's eldest daughter Princess Irulan as his wife. With a bloody jihad subsequently unleashed across the universe in Paul's name but out of his control, the Bene Gesserit, Tleilaxu, Spacing Guild, and House Corrino conspire to dethrone him in Dune Messiah (1969). Though the plot fails, the Atreides Empire continues to devolve in Children of Dune (1976) as the religion built around Paul falters, Irulan's sister Wensicia conspires to place her son Farad'n on the throne, and Paul's twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima rise to power.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Children of Dune |year=1976}}

The Heroes of Dune series (2008–2009) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson chronicles the major events that take place between Dune: House Corrino (2001) and Dune: The Duke of Caladan (2020), between Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969), and between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune (1976).{{cite serial |last=Herbert |first=Brian |author2=Kevin J. Anderson |title=Heroes of Dune |date=2008–2009}}

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At the time of God Emperor of Dune (1981), Paul's son, the God Emperor Leto II Atreides, has ruled the Empire for 3,500 years from the verdant face of a transformed Arrakis; melange production has ceased. Leto has forced the sandworms into extinction, except for the larval sandtrout with which he had forged a symbiosis, transforming him into a human-sandworm hybrid. Human civilization before his rule had suffered from twin weaknesses: that a single authority could control it and that it was dependent upon melange, found on only one planet in the known universe. Leto's prescient visions had shown that humanity would be threatened by extinction in any number of ways; his solution was to place humanity on his "Golden Path," a plan for humanity's survival. Leto governs as a benevolent tyrant, providing for his people's physical needs, but denying them any spiritual outlets other than his compulsory religion (as well as maintaining a monopoly on spice and thus total control of its use). Personal violence is banned, as is nearly all space travel, creating a pent-up demand for freedom and travel. The Bene Gesserit, Ixians, and Tleilaxu seek ways to regain some of their former power or unseat Leto altogether. Leto also conducts his selective breeding program among the descendants of his twin sister Ghanima, finally arriving at Siona, daughter of Moneo, whose actions are hidden from prescient vision. Leto engineers his own assassination, knowing it will result in rebellion and revolt but also in an explosion in travel and colonization. The death of Leto's body also produces new sandtrout, which will eventually give rise to a population of sandworms and a new cycle of spice production.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=God Emperor of Dune |year=1981}}

In the aftermath of the fall of the God Emperor, chaos and severe famine in many worlds caused trillions of humans to set off into the freedom of unknown space and spread out across the universe. This diaspora is later called the Scattering and, combined with the invisibility of Atreides descendants to prescient vision, assures that humanity has forever escaped the threat of total extinction. At the time of Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)—1500 years after Leto's death—the turmoil is settling into a new pattern; the balance of power in the Old Empire, as it is now called, rests among the Ixians, the Bene Gesserit, and the Tleilaxu. The Spacing Guild has been forever weakened by the development of Ixian machines capable of navigation in foldspace, practically replacing Guild Navigators. The Bene Gesserit, through manipulation of the Priesthood of the Divided God, control the sandworms and their planet, now called Rakis, but the Tleilaxu have discovered how to produce melange using their axlotl tanks in quantities that greatly exceed natural melange harvests. This balance of power is shattered by a large influx of people from the Scattering, some fleeing persecution by an as-yet-unknown enemy. Among the returning people, the Bene Gesserit finds its match in a violent and corrupt matriarchal society known as the Honored Matres, who they suspect may be descended from some of their own sent out in the Scattering. As a bitter and bloody war erupts between the orders, it ultimately becomes clear that joining the two organizations into a single New Sisterhood with shared abilities is their best chance to fight the approaching enemy.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Heretics of Dune |year=1984}}{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Chapterhouse: Dune |year=1985}}

The sequels Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson complete the original series and wrap up storylines that began with Heretics of Dune.

{{See also|Frank Herbert bibliography#The Dune series}}

Herbert's interest in the desert setting of Dune and its challenges is attributed to research he began in 1957 for a never-completed article about a United States Department of Agriculture experiment using poverty grass to stabilize damaging sand dunes, which could "swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, and highways."{{cite book|title=The Road to Dune|date=August 11, 2005|pages=[https://archive.org/details/roadtodune00herb/page/263 263–264]|last1=Herbert|first1=Frank|author-link=Frank Herbert|first2=Brian|last2=Herbert|author2-link=Brian Herbert|first3=Kevin J.|last3=Anderson|author3-link=Kevin J. Anderson|chapter=They Stopped the Moving Sands|publisher=Tor Books|isbn=0-7653-1295-6}} Herbert spent the next five years researching, writing, and revising what would eventually become the novel Dune, which was initially serialized in Analog magazine as two shorter works, Dune World (1963) and The Prophet of Dune (1965).{{cite book|title=The Road to Dune|year=2005|pages=[https://archive.org/details/roadtodune00herb/page/276 276–280]|chapter=The Letters of Dune|publisher=Tor Books|isbn=0-7653-1295-6|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/roadtodune00herb/page/276}} The serialized version was expanded and reworked—and rejected by more than 20 publishers—before being published by Chilton Books, a printing house best known for its auto repair manuals, in 1965.{{cite book|title=The Road to Dune|year=2005|page=[https://archive.org/details/roadtodune00herb/page/281 281]|chapter=The Letters of Dune|publisher=Tor Books|isbn=0-7653-1295-6|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/roadtodune00herb/page/281}} Dune won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966, and the 1966 Hugo Award.{{cite web|url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/1965/ |title=1965 Nebula Awards |work=The Nebula Awards |publisher=SFWA |access-date=March 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512144413/https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/1965/ |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1966-hugo-awards/|title=The Hugo Awards: 1966|date=26 July 2007|publisher=World Science Fiction Society|access-date=March 8, 2011|archive-date=May 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516124347/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1966-hugo-awards/|url-status=live}} The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, and has sold almost 20 million copies.{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/mobile/author/frankherbert |title=Frank Herbert |access-date=April 9, 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112153604/http://us.macmillan.com/mobile/author/frankherbert |archive-date=January 12, 2016|publisher=Macmillan |quote=Today the novel is more popular than ever...It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies}} Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels.{{cite book|last=Touponce |first=William F. |year=1988 |title=Frank Herbert |chapter=Herbert's Reputation |location=Boston, Massachusetts|publisher=Twayne Publishers imprint, G. K. Hall & Co|page=119 |isbn=0-8057-7514-5|quote=Locus ran a poll of readers on April 15, 1975 in which Dune 'was voted the all-time best science-fiction novel … It has sold over ten million copies in numerous editions.'}}{{cite web | title=SCI FI Channel Auction to Benefit Reading Is Fundamental | url=http://pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=4302 |date=March 18, 2003 |via=PNNonline.org|quote=Since its debut in 1965, Frank Herbert's Dune has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling science fiction novel of all time ... Frank Herbert's Dune saga is one of the greatest 20th Century contributions to literature.|access-date=September 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928005501/http://pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=4302 |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}

A sequel, Dune Messiah, followed in 1969.{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4272-0236-9|title=Audio Book Review: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert|website=Publishers Weekly|date=October 2007|access-date=October 2, 2018|archive-date=October 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002102402/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4272-0236-9|url-status=live}} A third novel called Children of Dune was published in 1976, and was later nominated for a Hugo Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1977-hugo-awards/ |title=The Hugo Awards: 1977 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |access-date=March 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164635/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1977-hugo-awards/ |archive-date=May 7, 2011}} Children of Dune became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field.{{cite book |last=Touponce |first=William F. |year=1988 |title=Frank Herbert |chapter=Herbert's Reputation |publisher=Twayne Publishers |page=119 |isbn=0-8057-7514-5|quote=When Herbert completed the third book of the series, Children of Dune (1976), it became an authentic hardcover best-seller with seventy-five thousand copies sold (not including book club sales). It was the first hardcover best-seller in the science fiction field.}} Parts of these two first sequels were written before Dune was completed.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxxwnkPHlfEC&q=%22parts%20of%20dune%20messiah%20and%20children%20of%20dune%20were%20written%20before%20dune%20was%20completed%22|title=Children of Dune|chapter=When I Was Writing Dune|first=Frank|last=Herbert|date=1976|edition=2008|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=9781440630514|access-date=May 24, 2020|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405022233/https://books.google.com/books?id=RxxwnkPHlfEC&q=%22parts%20of%20dune%20messiah%20and%20children%20of%20dune%20were%20written%20before%20dune%20was%20completed%22|url-status=live}}

In 1978, Putnam published The Illustrated Dune, an edition of Dune with 33 black-and-white sketch drawings and eight full color paintings by John Schoenherr, who had done the cover art for the first printing of Dune and had illustrated the Analog serializations of Dune and Children of Dune.{{cite web |url=http://omnireboot.com/2013/dune/ |title=Dune: The Most Important Science Fiction Art Ever |work=Omni Reboot |first=Jeff |last=Love |date=August 16, 2013 |access-date=October 31, 2014 |archive-date=October 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031041641/http://omnireboot.com/2013/dune/ |url-status=dead }} Herbert wrote in 1980 that though he had not spoken to Schoenherr prior to the artist creating the paintings, the author was surprised to find that the artwork appeared exactly as he had imagined its fictional subjects, including sandworms, Baron Harkonnen and the Sardaukar.{{cite web|last=Herbert|first=Frank|url=http://www.frankherbert.org/news/genesis.html |title=Dune Genesis|access-date=October 31, 2014 |via=FrankHerbert.org|work=Omni|date=July 1980 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107220342/http://www.frankherbert.org/news/genesis.html |archive-date=January 7, 2012|url-status=dead}}

In 1981, Herbert released God Emperor of Dune, which was ranked as the #11 hardcover fiction best seller of 1981 by Publishers Weekly.{{cite web|url=http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/entc312/s05/best80.cgi |title=20th-Century American Bestsellers |work=The Bowker Annual/Publishers Weekly |publisher=LIS.Illinois.edu |access-date=January 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719211204/http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/entc312/s05/best80.cgi |archive-date=July 19, 2011}} Heretics of Dune, the 1984 New York Times #13 hardcover fiction best seller,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/18/books/publishing-top-sellers-among-books-of-1984.html|title=Publishing: Top Sellers Among Books of 1984|last=McDowell|first=Edwin|date=January 18, 1985|work=The New York Times|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=January 5, 2010|archive-date=February 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217052212/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/18/books/publishing-top-sellers-among-books-of-1984.html|url-status=live}} was followed in quick succession by Chapterhouse: Dune in 1985.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/16/books/science-fiction.html |title=Science Fiction |via=NYTimes.com |work=The New York Times |date=June 16, 1985 |first=Gerald |last=Jonas |access-date=November 27, 2013 |archive-date=November 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110094751/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/16/books/science-fiction.html |url-status=live }} Herbert died on February 11, 1986.{{cite news |title=Frank Herbert, author of sci-fi best sellers, dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-13feb1986-pit/4656607/ |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=February 13, 1986 |access-date=July 27, 2009 |archive-date=February 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216172036/https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-13feb1986-pit/4656607/ |url-status=live }}

{{main article|Dune prequel series}}

Over a decade after Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert enlisted science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson to coauthor a trilogy of Dune prequel novels that would come to be called the Prelude to Dune series.{{cite web |last=Ascher |first=Ian |date=2004 |url=http://www.digitalwebbing.com/interviews/042104_anderson.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703213605/http://www.digitalwebbing.com/interviews/042104_anderson.html |title=Kevin J. Anderson Interview |publisher=DigitalWebbing.com |access-date=July 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 3, 2007 |quote=... we are ready to tackle the next major challenge—writing the grand climax of the saga that Frank Herbert left in his original notes sealed in a safe deposit box ... after we'd already decided what we wanted to write ... They opened up the safe deposit box and found inside the full and complete outline for Dune 7 ... Later, when Brian was cleaning out his garage, in the back he found ... over three thousand pages of Frank Herbert's other notes, background material, and character sketches.}} Using some of Frank Herbert's own notes,{{ cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=539275 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409140828/http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=539275 |url-status=dead |title=Before Dune, After Frank Herbert |publisher=Amazon.com |date=2004 |access-date=November 12, 2008 |archive-date=April 9, 2009 |quote=Brian was cleaning out his garage to make an office space and he found all these boxes that had {{'}}Dune Notes' on the side. And we used a lot of them for our House books.}} the duo wrote Dune: House Atreides (1999), Dune: House Harkonnen (2000), and Dune: House Corrino (2001). The series is set in the years immediately prior to the events of Dune. This was followed with a second prequel trilogy called the Legends of Dune, consisting of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002), Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003), and Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004). These were set during the Butlerian Jihad, an element of backstory that Frank Herbert had previously established as occurring 10,000 years before the events chronicled in Dune.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/Dune-The-Butlerian-Jihad-by-Brian-Herber--Kevin-J-Anderson--13987.php |title=Review: Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson |last=MacDonald |first=Rod |date=January 6, 2009 |publisher=SFCrowsnest.com |access-date=March 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615190055/http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/Dune-The-Butlerian-Jihad-by-Brian-Herber--Kevin-J-Anderson--13987.php |archive-date=June 15, 2013}} Herbert's brief description of humanity's "crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots"{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |chapter=Terminology of the Imperium: Jihad, Butlerian |year=1965 |quote=Jihad, Butlerian: (see also Great Revolt)—the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.'}} was expanded by Brian Herbert and Anderson in this series.

With an outline for the first book of Prelude to Dune series written and a proposal sent to publishers,{{cite web |url=http://arrakis.ru/ha_int_mf.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908030416/http://arrakis.ru/ha_int_mf.shtml |url-status=dead |title=Interview with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |publisher=Arrakis.ru |date=2004 |access-date=November 12, 2008 |archive-date=September 8, 2012 |quote=We had already started work on House Atreides ... After we already had our general outline written and the proposal sent to publishers, then we found the outlines and notes. (This necessitated some changes, of course.)}} Brian Herbert had discovered his father's 30-page outline for a sequel to Chapterhouse Dune, which the elder Herbert had dubbed Dune 7.{{cite web |last=Neuman |first=Clayton |date=August 17, 2009 |url=https://www.amc.com/talk/2009/08/winds-of-dune-a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090921011119/http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/08/brian-herbert-interview.php |archive-date=September 21, 2009 |url-status=live |title=Winds of Dune Author Brian Herbert on Flipping the Myth of Jihad |publisher=AMC |access-date=June 16, 2020 |quote=I got a call from an estate attorney who asked me what I wanted to do with two safety deposit boxes of my dad's ... in them were the notes to Dune 7—it was a 30-page outline. So I went up in my attic and found another 1,000 pages of working notes.}} After publishing their six prequel novels, Brian Herbert and Anderson released Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007), which complete the original series and wrap up storylines that began with Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune.

The Heroes of Dune series followed, focusing on the time periods between Frank Herbert's original novels.{{cite web |url=http://arrakis.ru/ha_int_mf.shtml |title=Kevin J. Anderson interview |year=2004 |publisher=Arrakis.ru |work=Mir Fantastiki |access-date=March 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908030416/http://arrakis.ru/ha_int_mf.shtml |archive-date=September 8, 2012}}{{cite web |first=Kevin J. |last=Anderson |url=http://www.dunenovels.com/blog/page033.html |access-date=June 20, 2008 |title=Dune blog |website=DuneNovels.com|date=April 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620185036/http://www.dunenovels.com/blog/page033.html |archive-date=June 20, 2008}}{{cite web |last=Adams |first=John Joseph |url=http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=37444 |title=New Dune Books Resume Story |publisher=SciFi.com (Internet Archive) |date=August 9, 2006 |access-date=June 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615032641/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=37444 |archive-date=June 15, 2008}} The first book, Paul of Dune, was published in 2008,{{cite book |title=Product Details: Paul of Dune (Tor Books) |date=September 16, 2008 |isbn=978-0765312945 |last1=Herbert |first1=Brian |last2=Anderson |first2=Kevin J. |publisher=Macmillan }} followed by The Winds of Dune{{cite web |url=http://www.dunenovels.com/wormsblog/page007.html |title=Sandworms of Dune blog |last=Anderson |first=Kevin J. |date=March 23, 2007 |publisher=DuneNovels.com (Internet Archive) |access-date=October 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029044350/http://www.dunenovels.com/wormsblog/page007.html|archive-date=October 29, 2007}} in 2009.{{cite book|title=Product Details: The Winds of Dune (Tor Books)|date=August 4, 2009|isbn=978-0765322722|last1=Herbert|first1=Brian|last2=Anderson|first2=Kevin J.|publisher=Macmillan }} The next two installments were to be called The Throne of Dune and Leto of Dune (possibly changing to The Golden Path of Dune),{{cite web|url=http://www.dunenovels.com/articles/tags-blog/chronology|title=Dune blog: Official Story Chronology|last=Anderson|first=Kevin J.|date=November 29, 2009|website=DuneNovels.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128183340/http://www.dunenovels.com/articles/tags-blog/chronology|access-date=November 28, 2013|archive-date=November 28, 2013}} but were postponed due to plans to publish a trilogy, Great Schools of Dune, about "the formation of the Bene Gesserit, the Mentats, the Suk doctors, the Spacing Guild and the Navigators, as well as the solidifying of the Corrino Imperium."{{cite web|first=Kevin J. |last=Anderson |url=http://www.dunenovels.com/articles/brainstorming-sisterhood-dune |archive-date=May 18, 2011 |access-date=November 27, 2013 |title=Brainstorming The Sisterhood of Dune |website=DuneNovels.com|date=July 15, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518041200/http://www.dunenovels.com/articles/brainstorming-sisterhood-dune}} Sisterhood of Dune was released in 2012, followed by Mentats of Dune in 2014. In a 2009 interview, Anderson stated that the third and final novel would be titled The Swordmasters of Dune, but by 2014 it had been renamed Navigators of Dune.{{cite web|url=http://kjablog.com/brainstorming-navigators-of-dune/ |title=Brainstorming NAVIGATORS OF DUNE |date=November 25, 2014 |publisher=KJAblog.com |first=Kevin J. |last=Anderson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912200558/http://kjablog.com/brainstorming-navigators-of-dune/ |archive-date=September 12, 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 6, 2016}} The novel was published on September 13, 2016.{{cite web |url=http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/09/add-all-19-of-these-new-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-to-your-september-reading-list/ |title=Add All 19 of These New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Your September Reading List |website=Gizmodo |first=Cheryl |last=Eddy |date=September 5, 2016 |access-date=September 13, 2016 |archive-date=September 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906060052/http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/09/add-all-19-of-these-new-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-to-your-september-reading-list/ |url-status=live }} A third Heroes of Dune novel, Princess of Dune, was released on October 3, 2023.{{cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250906267/princessofdune |title=Princess of Dune |publisher=MacMacmillan Publishers |date= |access-date=August 3, 2023 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601022125/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250906267/princessofdune |url-status=live }}

In July 2020, Herbert and Anderson announced a new trilogy of prequel novels called The Caladan Trilogy. The first novel in the series, Dune: The Duke of Caladan, was published in October 2020,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/dune-trilogy-october-with-publication-of-the-duke-of-caladan/|title=New Dune Trilogy Launches in October With Publication of The Duke of Caladan|date=July 10, 2020|first=Collier|last=Jennings|website=Comic Book Resources|access-date=November 9, 2021|archive-date=October 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030052434/https://www.cbr.com/dune-trilogy-october-with-publication-of-the-duke-of-caladan/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://lrmonline.com/news/dune-is-getting-a-new-trilogy/|title=Dune Is Getting a New Trilogy|first=Joseph Jammer|last=Medina|date=July 10, 2020|website=LRM Online|access-date=January 21, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807023814/https://lrmonline.com/news/dune-is-getting-a-new-trilogy/|url-status=live}} and the second, Dune: The Lady of Caladan, was released in September 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dune-publishing-panel-sdcc-2021|title=The Duneiverse is expanding! New books & comics coming to spice up Dune world ahead of upcoming film|date=July 23, 2021|first=James|last=Comtois|website=SyFy|access-date=November 10, 2021|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110032856/https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dune-publishing-panel-sdcc-2021|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://collider.com/dune-books-in-chronological-order-explained/|title=How to Read the Dune Books in Chronological Order|date=November 4, 2021|first=William|last=Fischer|website=Collider|access-date=November 10, 2021|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110032856/https://collider.com/dune-books-in-chronological-order-explained/|url-status=live}} The third novel, Dune: The Heir of Caladan, was released on November 22, 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250765161/dunetheheirofcaladan|title=Dune: The Heir of Caladan|website=Macmillan|access-date=December 7, 2022|archive-date=December 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206233109/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250765161/dunetheheirofcaladan|url-status=live}}

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In 1985, Frank Herbert wrote an illustrated short work called "The Road to Dune", set sometime between the events of Dune and Dune Messiah. Published in Herbert's short story collection Eye, it takes the form of a guidebook for pilgrims to Arrakis and features images (with descriptions) of some of the devices and characters presented in the novels.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Eye |chapter=The Road to Dune |year=1985 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=0-425-08398-5}}

Brian Herbert and Anderson have written eight Dune short stories and four Dune novellas, most of them related to and published around their novels. The eight short stories include "Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas" (2001), "Dune: Hunting Harkonnens" (2002), "Dune: Whipping Mek" (2003), "Dune: The Faces of a Martyr" (2004), "Dune: Sea Child" (2006), "Dune: Treasure in the Sand" (2006), "Dune: Wedding Silk" (2008), and "Dune: Red Plague" (2016). These eight short stories were published together in the 2017 collection Tales of Dune: Expanded Edition. The four novellas include "Dune: The Waters of Kanly" (2017), "Dune: Blood of the Sardaukar" (2019), "Dune: The Edge of a Crysknife" (2022), and "Dune: Imperial Court" (2022). The four novellas were published together in the collection Sands of Dune, which released on July 28, 2022.

In 1984, Herbert's publisher Putnam released The Dune Encyclopedia.{{cite book |last=McNelly |first=Willis E. |author-link=Willis E. McNelly |title=The Dune Encyclopedia |date=June 1, 1984 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=0-425-06813-7}}{{cite web |url=http://www.arrakis.co.uk/colpage11.html |title=Dune-related Books |publisher=Arrakis.co.uk |access-date=March 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813183159/http://www.arrakis.co.uk/colpage11.html |archive-date=2009-08-13 |url-status=dead}} Approved by Herbert but not written by him, this collection of essays by 43 contributors describes in invented detail many aspects of the Dune universe not found in the novels themselves.{{cite book|last=Touponce |first=William F. |year=1988 |title=Frank Herbert |chapter=Herbert's Reputation |publisher=Twayne Publishers |page=124 |isbn=0-8057-7514-5}} Herbert's estate later confirmed its non-canonical status after Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson had begun publishing prequel novels that directly contradict The Dune Encyclopedia.{{cite web |url=http://www.dunenovels.com/FAQ.html |title=Frequently Asked Questions |last=Herbert |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Herbert |author2=Kevin J. Anderson, Dr. Willis McNelly |website=DuneNovels.com|access-date=June 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615034956/http://www.dunenovels.com/FAQ.html |archive-date=June 15, 2008}} The 1984 Dune film spawned The Dune Storybook (September 1984, {{ISBN|0-399-12949-9}}), a novelization written by Joan D. Vinge,{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/joan-d-vinge/dune-storybook.htm|title=The Dune Storybook (1984) by Joan D. Vinge|publisher=FantasticFiction.co.uk|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-date=October 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015052546/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/joan-d-vinge/dune-storybook.htm|url-status=live}} and The Making of Dune (December 1984, {{ISBN|0-425-07376-9}}), a making-of book by Ed Naha.{{cite book|title=The Making of Dune|date=December 1984|first=Ed|last=Naha|authorlink=Ed Naha|publisher=Berkley Books|isbn=0-425-07376-9|edition=Trade paperback}}

In May 1992, Ace Books published Songs of Muad'Dib ({{ISBN|0-441-77427-X}}), a collection of Dune-related poems written by Frank Herbert and edited by his son Brian.{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/brian-herbert/songs-of-muaddib.htm |title=Songs of Muad'Dib |publisher=FantasticFiction.co.uk |access-date=August 11, 2008 |archive-date=December 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227080230/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/brian-herbert/songs-of-muaddib.htm |url-status=live }} Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson released The Road to Dune on August 11, 2005. The book contains a novelette called Spice Planet (an alternative version of Dune based on an outline by Frank Herbert), a number of the Brian Herbert/Anderson short stories, and letters and unused chapters written by Frank Herbert.{{cite book|title=The Road to Dune|date=August 11, 2005|last1=Herbert|first1=Frank|last2=Herbert|first2=Brian|last3=Anderson|first3=Kevin J.|publisher=Tor Books|isbn=0-7653-1295-6|url=https://archive.org/details/roadtodune00herb}} In the 1999 gazetteer The Stars and Planets of Frank Herbert's Dune: A Gazetteer (1999), Joseph M. Daniels estimates the distance from Earth in light-years (ly) for many Dune planets, based on the real-life distances of the stars and planetary systems referenced by Frank Herbert when discussing these planets in the glossary of the novel Dune. Though Herbert used the names of actual stars and planetary systems in his work, there is no documentation supporting or disputing the assumption that he was, in fact, referring to these real-life stars or systems.{{cite book |url=http://www.projectrho.com/DuneGazetteer.txt |title=The Stars and Planets of Frank Herbert's Dune: A Gazetteer |first=Joseph M. |last=Daniels |via=Projectrho.com |date=1999 |access-date=August 26, 2010 |archive-date=May 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524211533/http://www.projectrho.com/DuneGazetteer.txt |url-status=live }}

The Science of Dune (2008) analyzes and deconstructs many of Herbert's concepts and fictional inventions.{{cite book |author-link=Kevin R. Grazier |first=Kevin R. |last=Grazier |title=The Science of Dune |year=2008 |location=Dallas, TX |publisher=BenBella Books |isbn=978-1-933771-28-1}}{{cite book |url=http://www.smartpopbooks.com/book/the-science-of-dune |title=The Science of Dune |date=January 2008 |access-date=September 13, 2010 |archive-date=March 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316102021/http://www.smartpopbooks.com/book/the-science-of-dune |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/mar/14/exploring-duniverse-of-frank-herbert/ |title=Review: Exploring Frank Herbert's 'Duniverse' |access-date=March 19, 2008 |author=Evans, Clay |date=March 14, 2008 |website=DailyCamera.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319013644/http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/mar/14/exploring-duniverse-of-frank-herbert/ |archive-date=March 19, 2008}}

The Dune series is a landmark of soft science fiction. Herbert deliberately suppressed technology in his Dune universe so he could address the politics of humanity, rather than the future of humanity's technology. Dune considers the way humans and their institutions might change over time.{{cite book|title=Building Sci-fi Moviescapes: The Science Behind the Fiction|first=Matt|last=Hanson|publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing|year=2005|isbn=9780240807720}} Jon Michaud of The New Yorker called the originating novel Dune "an epic of political betrayal, ecological brinkmanship, and messianic deliverance." Director John Harrison, who adapted Dune for Syfy's 2000 miniseries, called the novel a universal and timeless reflection of "the human condition and its moral dilemmas", and said:

{{Blockquote|A lot of people refer to Dune as science fiction. I never do. I consider it an epic adventure in the classic storytelling tradition, a story of myth and legend not unlike the Morte d'Arthur or any messiah story. It just happens to be set in the future... The story is actually more relevant today than when Herbert wrote it. In the 1960s, there were just these two colossal superpowers duking it out. Today we're living in a more feudal, corporatized world more akin to Herbert's universe of separate families, power centers and business interests, all interrelated and kept together by the one commodity necessary to all.}}

Novelist Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son and biographer, explained that "Frank Herbert drew parallels, used spectacular metaphors, and extrapolated present conditions into world systems that seem entirely alien at first blush. But close examination reveals they aren't so different from systems we know."{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |chapter=Afterword by Brian Herbert |year=1965 |edition=Kindle |publisher=Penguin Group |page=876}} He wrote that the invaluable drug melange "represents, among other things, the finite resource of oil". Michaud explained, "Imagine a substance with the combined worldwide value of cocaine and petroleum and you will have some idea of the power of melange." Each chapter of Dune begins with an epigraph excerpted from the fictional writings of the character Princess Irulan. In forms such as diary entries, historical commentary, biography, quotations and philosophy, these writings set tone and provide exposition, context, and other details intended by Herbert to enhance understanding of his complex fictional universe and themes.{{cite web |url=http://torforgeblog.com/2014/02/03/quotes-from-the-end-of-the-world/ |title=Quotes from the End of the World |last=Edison |first=David |website=Tor.com |date=February 3, 2014 |access-date=June 29, 2014 |archive-date=July 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708041344/http://torforgeblog.com/2014/02/03/quotes-from-the-end-of-the-world/ |url-status=live }}

Michaud wrote in 2013, "With daily reminders of the intensifying effects of global warming, the spectre of a worldwide water shortage, and continued political upheaval in the oil-rich Middle East, it is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published." Praising Herbert's "clever authorial decision" to excise robots and computers ("two staples of the genre") from his fictional universe, he suggested that "This de-emphasis on technology throws the focus back on people. It also allows for the presence of a religious mysticism uncommon in science fiction."

The originating novel Dune has been called the "first planetary ecology novel on a grand scale".{{cite book |last1=James |first1=Edward |first2=Farah |last2=Mendlesohn |title=The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2003 |pages=183–184 |isbn=0-521-01657-6}} After the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in 1962, science fiction writers began treating the subject of ecological change and its consequences. Dune responded in 1965 with its complex descriptions of life on Arrakis, from giant sandworms (for whom water is life-threatening) to smaller, mouse-like life-forms adapted to live with limited water. Dune was followed in its creation of complex and unique ecologies by other science fiction books such as A Door into Ocean (1986) and Red Mars (1992). Environmentalists have pointed out that Dune{{'s}} popularity as a novel depicting a planet as a complex, almost living, thing, in combination with the first images of Earth from space being published in the same time period, strongly influenced environmental movements such as the establishment of the international Earth Day.{{cite book |editor-first1=Robert L. |editor-last1=France |title=Facilitating Watershed Management: Fostering Awareness and Stewardship |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |location=Lanham |year=2005 |page=105 |isbn=0-7425-3364-6}}

Lorenzo DiTommaso compared Dune{{'s}} portrayal of the downfall of a galactic empire to Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which argues that Christianity allied with the profligacy of the Roman elite led to the fall of Ancient Rome. In "History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert's Dune" (1992), DiTommaso outlines similarities between the two works by highlighting the excesses of Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV on his home planet of Kaitain and of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in his palace. The Emperor loses his effectiveness as a ruler through an excess of ceremony and pomp. The hairdressers and attendants he brings with him to Arrakis are even referred to as "parasites". The Baron Harkonnen is similarly corrupt, materially indulgent, and a sexual degenerate. Gibbon's Decline and Fall partly blames the fall of Rome on the rise of Christianity. Gibbon claimed that this exotic import from a conquered province weakened the soldiers of Rome and left it open to attack.

Similarly, the Emperor's Sardaukar fighters are little match for the Fremen of Arrakis because of the Sardaukar's overconfidence and the Fremen's capacity for self-sacrifice. The Fremen put the community before themselves in every instance, while the world outside wallows in luxury at the expense of others.{{cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/58/ditom58art.htm|title=History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert's Dune|last=Lorenzo|first=DiTommaso|date=November 1992|work=Science Fiction Studies|issue=58|volume=19, Part 3|publisher=DePauw University|pages=311–325|access-date=July 21, 2009|archive-date=October 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017124444/http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/58/ditom58art.htm|url-status=live}} The decline and long peace of the Empire sets the stage for revolution and renewal by genetic mixing of successful and unsuccessful groups through war, a process culminating in the Jihad led by Paul Atreides, described by Herbert as depicting "war as a collective orgasm" (drawing on Norman Walter's 1950 The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare). These themes reappear in God Emperor of Dune{{'s}} Scattering and Leto II Atreides's all-female Fish Speaker army.{{Cite book|url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1950-walter-thesexualcycleofhumanwarfare.djvu|title=The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare|date=1950|first=Norman|last=Walter|via=gwern.net|access-date=June 28, 2019|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412132316/https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1950-walter-thesexualcycleofhumanwarfare.djvu|url-status=live}}{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.jacurutu.com/viewtopic.php?t=1214#p38497|title=Listening To The Left Hand|first=Frank|last=Herbert|magazine=Harper's|date=December 1973|via=jacurutu.com|access-date=June 28, 2019|archive-date=June 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616122440/http://www.jacurutu.com/viewtopic.php?t=1214#p38497|url-status=live}}

Brian Herbert wrote that "Dune is a modern-day conglomeration of familiar myths, a tale in which great sandworms guard a precious treasure of melange...[that] resembles the myth described by an unknown English poet in Beowulf, the compelling tale of a fearsome fire dragon who guarded a great treasure hoard in a lair under cliffs."

Paul's rise to superhuman status follows the hero's journey template; after unfortunate circumstances are forced onto him, he suffers a long period of hardship and exile, and finally confronts and defeats the source of evil in his tale.{{cite journal|last=Tilley|first=E. Allen|title=The Modes of Fiction: A Plot Morphology|journal=College English|date=February 1978|volume=39|issue=6|pages=692–706|doi=10.2307/375873|jstor=375873}}{{cite journal|last=Hume|first=Kathryn|title=Romance: A Perdurable Pattern|journal=College English|date=October 1974|volume=36|issue=2|pages=129–146|doi=10.2307/374771|jstor=374771}} As such, Dune is representative of a general trend beginning in 1960s American science fiction in that it features a character who attains godlike status through scientific means.{{cite book|last=Attebery|first=Brian|title=Decoding Gender in Science Fiction|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=2002|page=66|isbn=0-415-93949-6}} Frank Herbert said in 1979, "The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better [to] rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes."{{Cite book |last=Clareson |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas D. Clareson |title=Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: the Formative Period |location=Columbia, SC |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OlTc6yOyYbwC&dq=muad%27dib+mahdi&pg=PA171 |year=1992 |pages=169–173 |isbn=0-87249-870-0 |access-date=2023-02-11 |archive-date=2023-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408131738/https://books.google.com/books?id=OlTc6yOyYbwC&dq=muad%27dib+mahdi&pg=PA171 |url-status=live }} He wrote in 1985, "Dune was aimed at this whole idea of the infallible leader because my view of history says that mistakes made by a leader (or made in a leader's name) are amplified by the numbers who follow without question."

Juan A. Prieto-Pablos says Herbert achieves a new typology with Paul's superpowers, differentiating the heroes of Dune from earlier heroes such as Superman, van Vogt's Gilbert Gosseyn and Henry Kuttner's telepaths. Unlike previous superheroes who acquire their powers suddenly and accidentally, Paul's are the result of "painful and slow personal progress." And unlike other superheroes of the 1960s—who are the exception among ordinary people in their respective worlds—Herbert's characters grow their powers through "the application of mystical philosophies and techniques." For Herbert, the ordinary person can develop incredible fighting skills (Fremen, Swordmasters of Ginaz and Sardaukar) or mental abilities (Bene Gesserit, Mentats, Spacing Guild Navigators).{{Cite journal|last=Prieto-Pablos|first=Juan A.|title=The Ambivalent Hero of Contemporary Fantasy and Science Fiction|journal=Extrapolation|volume=32|issue=1|pages=64–80|publisher=University of Texas at Brownsville|date=Spring 1991|doi=10.3828/extr.1991.32.1.64}}

Due to the similarities between some of Herbert's terms and ideas and actual words and concepts in Arabic, as well as the series' "Islamic undertones" and themes, a Middle Eastern influence on Herbert's works has been noted repeatedly.{{Cite book |title=The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction |first=Istvan |last=Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. |publisher=Wesleyan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVYxl5ued-oC&q=The%20seven%20beauties%20of%20science%20fiction%20by%20Istvan%20Csicsery-Ronay%2C%20Jr.%2C%20Istvan%20Csicsery-Ronay%20%28Jr.%29&pg=PA39 |date=November 28, 2008 |isbn=978-0819568892 |access-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129181807/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVYxl5ued-oC&q=The%20seven%20beauties%20of%20science%20fiction%20by%20Istvan%20Csicsery-Ronay%2C%20Jr.%2C%20Istvan%20Csicsery-Ronay%20%28Jr.%29&pg=PA39 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html |title=Arabic and Islamic themes in Frank Herbert's Dune |last=Bahayeldin |first=Khalid |date=January 22, 2004 |access-date=July 21, 2009 |publisher=Baheyeldin.com |archive-date=May 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512020025/http://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine|first=Manvir|last=Singh|date=February 28, 2024|title="Dune" and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/dune-and-the-delicate-art-of-making-fictional-languages|magazine=The New Yorker|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240319224623/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/dune-and-the-delicate-art-of-making-fictional-languages|archive-date=March 19, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite web|first=Marc|last=Tracy|author-link=Marc Tracy|date=March 23, 2024|title=The Invention of a Desert Tongue for 'Dune'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/movies/dune-language-fremen.html|website=The New York Times|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240323170919/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/movies/dune-language-fremen.html|archive-date=March 23, 2024|url-status=live}}

As a foreigner who adopts the ways of a desert-dwelling people and then leads them in a military capacity, Paul Atreides' character bears many similarities to the historical T. E. Lawrence,{{cite book|url=http://tim.oreilly.com/herbert/ch03.html|title=Frank Herbert|first=Tim|last=O'Reilly|chapter=Chapter 3: From Concept to Fable|access-date=December 27, 2019|archive-date=July 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717022308/http://tim.oreilly.com/herbert/ch03.html|url-status=live}} whose 1962 biopic Lawrence of Arabia has also been identified as an influence.{{cite web |title=Lawrence of Arabia Is the Unlikely Prequel to Star Wars, Dune, And All Your Favorite Fantasy Epics |url=https://decider.com/2015/12/03/lawrence-of-arabia-star-wars-dune-sci-fi/ |via=Decider.com |website=New York Post |access-date=14 June 2019 |date=3 December 2015 |archive-date=16 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616084717/https://decider.com/2015/12/03/lawrence-of-arabia-star-wars-dune-sci-fi/ |url-status=live }} Lesley Blanch's novel The Sabres of Paradise (1960) about Muslim resistance to the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, has also been identified as a major influence upon Dune, with its depiction of Imam Shamil, the Caucasian Imamate, and the Islamic culture of the Caucasus inspiring some of the themes, characters, events and terminology of Dune.{{cite magazine|last=Collins|first=Will|date=September 16, 2017|title=The Secret History of Dune|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/#!|magazine=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=October 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021060026/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/#!|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Nate|date=2021-10-28|title=We Need to Talk About the Name 'Duncan Idaho'|url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/10/dune-we-need-to-talk-about-the-name-duncan-idaho.html|access-date=2021-10-31|website=Vulture|language=en-us|archive-date=2021-10-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031061653/https://www.vulture.com/2021/10/dune-we-need-to-talk-about-the-name-duncan-idaho.html|url-status=live}} Multiple proverbs recorded by Blanch's The Sabres as originating from the Caucasus Mountains are included in Dune, such as "polish comes from the city, wisdom from the hills," becoming "polish comes from the cities, wisdom from the desert" for Arrakis.

The environment of the desert planet Arrakis is similar to the Middle East, particularly the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, as well as to Mexico. The novel also contains references to the petroleum industries in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf as well as Mexico.{{cite book |last1=Lynch |first1=Tom |last2=Glotfelty |first2=Cheryll |last3=Armbruster |first3=Karla |title=The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place |date=2012 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=9780820343679 |page=230 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flt4Uea3oOcC&pg=PA230 |access-date=January 3, 2020 |archive-date=March 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308011122/https://books.google.com/books?id=flt4Uea3oOcC&pg=PA230#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} The Fremen people of Arrakis were influenced by the Bedouin tribes of Arabia, and the Mahdi prophecy originates from Islamic eschatology.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/03/dune-50-years-on-science-fiction-novel-world|title=Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world|last=Kunzru|first=Hari|date=2015-07-03|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-02-11|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=2019-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211143820/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/03/dune-50-years-on-science-fiction-novel-world|url-status=live}} Inspiration is also adopted from medieval historian ibn Khaldun's cyclical history and his dynastic concept in North Africa, hinted by Herbert's reference to ibn Khaldun's book Kitāb al-ʿIbar "The Book of Lessons" as known among the Fremen.{{Cite news|title=Dune novels draw on Islamic motifs and have in turn inspired Muslim artists|language=en-US|work=Religion News Service|url=https://religionnews.com/2021/10/18/dune-novels-draw-on-islamic-motifs-and-have-in-turn-inspired-muslim-artists/|date=October 18, 2021|first=Joseph|last=Hammond|access-date=October 31, 2021|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106001309/https://religionnews.com/2021/10/18/dune-novels-draw-on-islamic-motifs-and-have-in-turn-inspired-muslim-artists/|url-status=live}}{{Cite book |last=Determann |first=Jörg Matthias |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1_xDwAAQBAJ |title=Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World |date=2021 |isbn=978-0-7556-0130-1 |location=London |pages=97 |oclc=1197808773 |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308011130/https://books.google.com/books?id=k1_xDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}

In addition to Arabic, Dune derives words and names from multiple other languages, including Hebrew, Navajo, Latin, Chakobsa, the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, Greek, Persian, East Indian, Russian, Turkish, Finnish, Dutch and Old English.{{cite book|last=Herbert|first=Frank|title=Dune|publisher=Penguin Group|year=1965|edition=Kindle|page=878|chapter=Afterword by Brian Herbert}} Herbert created a fictional language, also called Chakobsa, used by the Fremen on Arrakis for rituals and other purposes. Through the inspiration from Lesley Blanch's The Sabres of Paradise, there are also allusions to the Tsarist-era Russian nobility and Cossacks. Herbert stated that bureaucracy that lasted long enough would become a hereditary nobility, and a significant theme behind the aristocratic families in Dune was "aristocratic bureaucracy" which he saw as analogous to the Soviet Union.{{Cite web|title=Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert: Chapter 5: Rogue Gods - O'Reilly Media|url=https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ch05.html|access-date=2021-11-07|website=www.oreilly.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107074914/https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ch05.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Herbert|first=Frank|date=1985-04-17|title=Frank Herbert speaking at UCLA 4/17/1985|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfgBX1EW00|website=YouTube|publisher=University of California, Los Angeles Comm Studies|access-date=2021-11-07|archive-date=2021-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107074907/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfgBX1EW00|url-status=live}}

Brian Herbert called the Dune universe "a spiritual melting pot", noting that his father, Frank Herbert, incorporated elements of a variety of religions, including Buddhism, Sufi mysticism and other Islamic belief systems, Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Hinduism.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |chapter=Afterword by Brian Herbert |year=1965 |edition=Amazon Kindle |publisher=Penguin Group |page=873}} He added that Frank Herbert's fictional future in which "religious beliefs have combined into interesting forms" represents the author's solution to eliminating arguments between religions, each of which claim to have "the one and only revelation." Frank Herbert writes that, in the aftermath of the technology-purging Butlerian Jihad, the Bene Gesserit composed the Azhar Book, which "preserves the great secrets of the most ancient faiths".{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |chapter=Appendix II: The Religion of Dune |year=1965}} Soon after, an ecumenical council created a syncretic religion defined by the Orange Catholic Bible, which would become the primary orthodox religious text in the universe. Its title suggests a merging of Protestantism (Orange Order) and Catholicism.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hlbSrcGnhRIC&pg=PA187|title=Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert|last=Herbert|first=Brian|date=2004-07-01|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780765306470|pages=187|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AajtCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA235|title=The History of Science Fiction|last=Roberts|first=A.|date=2005-11-28|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230554658|pages=235|language=en}} Herbert writes in the glossary of Dune:

{{blockquote|Orange Catholic Bible: the "Accumulated Book," the religious text produced by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators. It contains elements of most ancient religions, including the Maometh Saari, Mahayana Christianity, Zensunni Catholicism and Buddislamic traditions. Its supreme commandment is considered to be: "Thou shalt not disfigure the soul."{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |chapter=Terminology of the Imperium: Orange Catholic Bible |year=1965}}}}

Early in his newspaper career, Frank Herbert was introduced to Zen, a school of Mahayana Buddhism, by two Jungian psychologists, Ralph and Irene Slattery, who "gave a crucial boost to his thinking".{{cite book|url=http://tim.oreilly.com/herbert/ch02.html|title=Frank Herbert|first=Tim|last=O'Reilly|chapter=Chapter 2: Under Pressure|access-date=March 26, 2019|archive-date=December 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230080811/http://tim.oreilly.com/herbert/ch02.html|url-status=live}} Zen teachings ultimately had "a profound and continuing influence on [Herbert's] work". Throughout the Dune series and particularly in Dune, Herbert employs concepts and forms borrowed from Zen Buddhism.{{cite web |title=Unpublished interview with Frank Herbert and Professor Willis E. McNelly |date=February 3, 1969 |url=http://www.sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm |via=sinanvural.com |access-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-date=February 13, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020213105526/http://www.sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm |url-status=live }} The Fremen are Zensunni adherents, and many of Herbert's epigraphs are Zen-spirited.{{cite book|last=Touponce|year=1988|title=Frank Herbert|chapter=Life and Intellectual Background|page=10|publisher=Twayne Publishers |isbn=0-8057-7514-5}} In "Dune Genesis", Frank Herbert wrote:

{{blockquote|What especially pleases me is to see the interwoven themes, the fuguelike relationships of images that exactly replay the way Dune took shape ... I involved myself with recurrent themes that turn into paradox. The central paradox concerns the human vision of time. What about Paul's gift of prescience—the Presbyterian fixation? For the Delphic Oracle to perform, it must tangle itself in a web of predestination. Yet predestination negates surprises and, in fact, sets up a mathematically enclosed universe whose limits are always inconsistent, always encountering the unprovable. It's like a koan, a Zen mind breaker.}}

The Bene Gesserit practice "religious engineering" (social engineering), through the Missionaria Protectiva, which spreads contrived myths, prophecies and superstition on primitive worlds so that the Sisterhood may at a much later time exploit embedded belief to advance their universal strategies.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |chapter=Terminology of the Imperium: Missionaria Protectiva |year=1965}} Herbert suggests a process of wish-fulfilling recognition of "sacred" texts created by the Bene Gesserit's master plan in a particular person, and transforming events into common belief.{{cite book|author1=Ericka Hoagland|author2=Reema Sarwal|author3=Andy Sawyer|title=Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World: Essays on Postcolonial Literature and Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dEzQw_LW_U8C&pg=PA28|accessdate=February 24, 2011|date=August 24, 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-4789-3|pages=28–29}} In the novels, the Fremen religion on Arrakis has been thus influenced, allowing Paul to embody their prophesied messiah.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |chapter=Appendix III: Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes |year=1965}} Paul is agonized by visions of terrible jihad which will destroy the Imperium, but he becomes Paul Muad'Dib, Mahdi of the Fremen, accepting the role imposed by Bene Gesserit. A new religion sweeps Paul to power.

Between the events of Dune and Dune Messiah, the name Muad'Dib becomes a battle cry on the lips of the Fremen army that sweeps across the universe in a jihad in the name of Muad'Dib's religion.{{cite journal |title=The monomyth as fractal pattern in Frank Herbert's Dune novels |first=D. |last=Palumbo |journal=Science Fiction Studies |year=1998 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=433–458 |jstor=4240724}} The population of the universe sees Muad'Dib as their god, whether they like it or not, and they cannot deny his power religiously.{{citation |url=http://dune2k.com/Community/Articles/DunePoliticsReligion |title=Dune Politics and Religion |first=Andrew |last=Sherry |editor=Julie Dennison |access-date=2023-02-04 |archive-date=2023-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202153617/https://dune2k.com/Community/Articles/DunePoliticsReligion |url-status=live }} The Fremen culture is irreparably damaged by jihad; the new religion takes shape of rituals that are dependent on Muad'Dib's omnipresence. As Muad'Dib, Paul is the messiah and the Emperor (King of Kings) who gives himself to fate and becomes a martyr to his followers, wanders blinded into the desert to die, later finding emancipation as a heretic of his own church as the Preacher.{{citation |url=http://reconstruction.eserver.org/033/williams.htm |title=Imperialism & Globalization: Lessons from Frank Herbert's Dune |author=Kevin Williams |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130414155038/http://reconstruction.eserver.org/033/williams.htm |archivedate=April 14, 2013 }} The regency of Paul's sister Alia and the Qizarate priests continue to promote Muad'Dib's religion to help keep control of the universe, ensuring that others do not oppose them. In his Golden Path, Herbert presents an argument of how to create a healthy society, avoiding despotism and hero worship, a trap in which social groups can be caught:

{{blockquote|To make a world where human kind can make its own future from moment to moment, free from one man's vision. Free from the perversion of the prophets words. And free of future pre-determined...}}

The political, scientific, and social fictional setting of Herbert's novels and derivative works is known as the Dune universe or Duniverse.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/new-dune-movie-explained-what-to-know-about-the-classic-sci-fi-novel|title=Dune Remake Movie Explained: What to Know About the Classic Sci-Fi Novel|website=IGN|access-date=July 28, 2020|archive-date=April 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420215022/https://www.ign.com/articles/new-dune-movie-explained-what-to-know-about-the-classic-sci-fi-novel|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Reader|first=Sam|date=2020-01-13|title=Frank Herbert's Dune: Science Fiction's Greatest Epic Fantasy Novel|url=https://www.tor.com/2020/01/13/frank-herberts-dune-science-fictions-greatest-epic-fantasy-novel/|access-date=2021-06-08|website=Tor.com|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607203042/https://www.tor.com/2020/01/13/frank-herberts-dune-science-fictions-greatest-epic-fantasy-novel/|url-status=live}} Dune has been widely influential, inspiring numerous novels, music, films, television, games, and comic books.{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=Adam |title=Science Fiction |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |date=2000 |pages=85–90 |isbn=0-415-19204-8}} It is considered one of the greatest and most influential science fiction novels of all time, with numerous modern science fiction works such as Star Wars owing their existence to Dune. Dune has also been referenced in numerous other works of popular culture, such as Star Trek, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Kingkiller Chronicle, and Futurama.{{cite web |last1=Bardinelli |first1=John |title=Dune at 50: Pop Culture Is Hooked on Spice |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/dune-at-50-pop-culture-is-hooked-on-spice/ |website=Barnes & Noble |access-date=13 April 2020 |date=30 April 2015 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916102626/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/dune-at-50-pop-culture-is-hooked-on-spice/ |url-status=live }} Dune was cited as the prime inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki's manga, and later film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982–1994).{{cite book |title=Hayao Miyazaki Master of Japanese Animation |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |author=McCarthy, Helen |year=1999 |pages=72–92 |isbn=1880656418}}

Jon Michaud noted in 2013 in The New Yorker, "what's curious about Dune{{'s}} stature is that it has not penetrated popular culture in the way that The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars have." He praised Herbert's "clever authorial decision" to excise robots and computers ("two staples of the genre") from his fictional universe, but suggested that this may be one explanation why Dune lacks "true fandom among science-fiction fans".

Since 2009, the names of planets from the Dune novels have been adopted for the real-world nomenclature of plains (planitiae) and complexes of valleys (labyrinthi) on Saturn's moon Titan.{{cite web |url=https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/index.php?/archives/369-New-Name,-Descriptor-Term,-and-Theme-Approved-for-Use-on-Titan.html |title=USGS Astrogeology Hot Topics: New Name, Descriptor Term, and Theme Approved for Use on Titan |first=Jennifer |last=Blue |publisher=United States Geological Survey |via=Astrogeology.usgs.gov |date=August 4, 2009 |access-date=September 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101075856/http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/index.php?%2Farchives%2F369-New-Name%2C-Descriptor-Term%2C-and-Theme-Approved-for-Use-on-Titan.html |archive-date=November 1, 2014 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=TITAN&featureType=Planitia,%20planitiae |title=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Titan Planitiae |publisher=United States Geological Survey |via=Planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov |access-date=January 3, 2015 |archive-date=October 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016163143/http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=TITAN&featureType=Planitia,%20planitiae |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=TITAN&featureType=Labyrinthus,%20labyrinthi |title=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Titan Labyrinthi |publisher=United States Geological Survey |via=Planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov |access-date=January 3, 2015 |archive-date=October 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016163143/http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=TITAN&featureType=Labyrinthus,%20labyrinthi |url-status=live }} Planet names used to date include Arrakis, Caladan, Giedi Prime, Kaitain, Salusa Secundus, and Tleilax. The Hagal dune field and other sites on Mars are informally named after planets mentioned in the Dune series.{{cite journal |author1=C.J. Hansen |author2=S. Byrne |author3=G. Portyankina |author4=M. Bourke |author5=C. Dundas |author6=A. McEwen |author7=M. Mellon |author8=A. Pommerol |author9=N. Thomas |title=Observations of the northern seasonal polar cap on Mars: I. Spring sublimation activity and processes |journal=Icarus |year=2013 |volume=225 |issue=2 |pages=881–897 |doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2012.09.024 |url=http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~shane/publications/hansen_etal_icarus_2013.pdf |publisher=Elsevier |bibcode=2013Icar..225..881H |quote=Page 883, Table 1: Sites imaged systematically by HiRISE in study year 3 (MY31) of seasonal campaign. The names are informal, some based on the sand dunes in the science fiction book Dune. |access-date=2019-11-11 |archive-date=2022-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201111812/https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~shane/publications/hansen_etal_icarus_2013.pdf |url-status=live }} The city of Tacoma, Washington, Herbert's birthplace, dedicated part of Point Defiance Park as the "Dune Peninsula" to honor the writer and the series.{{cite web | url = https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article232329717.html | title = The Dune Peninsula and Frank Herbert Trail — 'Tacoma's newest treasure' — are open | first = Alexis | last = Krell | date = July 6, 2019 | access-date = July 7, 2019 | work = Tacoma News-Tribune | archive-date = July 7, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190707121622/https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article232329717.html | url-status = live }}

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In 1973, director and writer Alejandro Jodorowsky set about creating a cinematic adaptation, taking over the option that producer Arthur P. Jacobs had taken on the film adaptation rights in 1973 shortly before his death. Jodorowsky approached, among others, Peter Gabriel, the prog rock groups Pink Floyd and Magma for some of the music, artists H. R. Giger and Jean Giraud for set and character design, and Dan O'Bannon for special effects. Jodorowsky cast his own son Brontis Jodorowsky in the lead role of Paul Atreides, Salvador Dalí as Shaddam IV, Padishah Emperor, Amanda Lear as Princess Irulan, Orson Welles as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Gloria Swanson as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, David Carradine as Duke Leto Atreides, Geraldine Chaplin as Lady Jessica, Alain Delon as Duncan Idaho, Hervé Villechaize as Gurney Halleck, Udo Kier as Piter De Vries, and Mick Jagger as Feyd-Rautha.{{cite web|url=http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky.asp |title=Dune: Le Film Que Vous Ne Verrez Jamais (Dune: The Film You Will Never See) |first=Alejandro |last=Jodorowsky |work=Métal Hurlant |issue=107 |year=1985 |publisher=DuneInfo.com |access-date=February 20, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429101454/http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky.asp |archive-date=April 29, 2011}} He began writing a vast script, so expansive that the film was thought to potentially last 14 hours. The project was scrapped for financial reasons, leaving Jodorowsky's unfinished handwritten script in a notebook that was partially published as a facsimile in 2012 as part of the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts catalog of the 13th documenta exhibition.{{cite web|url=http://www.hatjecantz.de/alejandro-jodorowsky-2753-1.html|title=Alejandro Jodorowsky|last=Cantz|first=Hatje|work=Hatje Cantz|access-date=May 16, 2014|archive-date=December 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226063521/http://www.hatjecantz.de/alejandro-jodorowsky-2753-1.html|url-status=live}} Frank Pavich directed a documentary about this unrealized project entitled Jodorowsky's Dune, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in May 2013,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/hold-directors-fortnight-1200407774/|title=U.S. Fare Looms Large in Directors' Fortnight|last=Keslassy|first=Elsa|work=Variety|date=April 23, 2013|access-date=April 30, 2013|archive-date=April 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426003118/http://variety.com/2013/film/news/hold-directors-fortnight-1200407774/|url-status=live}} and was released theatrically in March 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/dune/152053/jodorowskys-dune-gets-a-release-date-from-sony|title=Jodorowsky's Dune Gets a Release Date From Sony|last=Cecchini|first=Mike|work=Den of Geek|date=August 25, 2013|access-date=December 8, 2014|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092911/http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/dune/152053/jodorowskys-dune-gets-a-release-date-from-sony|url-status=dead}}

In 1984, Dino De Laurentiis and Universal Pictures released Dune, a feature film adaptation of the novel by director and writer David Lynch.{{cite web|title=Dune (1984)|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dune.htm|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=January 15, 2015|archive-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502192320/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3629024769/weekend/|url-status=live}} The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, Jürgen Prochnow as Duke Leto Atreides, Francesca Annis as Lady Jessica, Sean Young as Chani, Kenneth McMillan as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Siân Phillips as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Max von Sydow as Doctor Kynes, Sting as Feyd-Rautha, Freddie Jones as Thufir Hawat, Richard Jordan as Duncan Idaho, Everett McGill as Stilgar, Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck, Dean Stockwell as Doctor Wellington Yueh, and José Ferrer as Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F06E2D71238F937A25751C1A962948260|title=Movie Review: Dune (1984)|last=Maslin|first=Janet|author-link=Janet Maslin|date=December 14, 1984|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 15, 2010|archive-date=March 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311010339/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F06E2D71238F937A25751C1A962948260|url-status=live}} Although a commercial and critical failure upon release, Frank Herbert himself was reportedly pleased with the film, as it stayed more faithful to the book than earlier film adaptation attempts. However, he had his reservations on its failures at the time, citing the lack of "imagination" in its marketing and estimated costs, and some of the filmmaker's production techniques.{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Eye |chapter=Introduction |year=1985 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=0-425-08398-5}} In 2021, Ballyhoo Motion Pictures released a documentary entitled The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune. It chronicles the making of Lynch's Dune film. Initially intended to be released on a special feature for the Arrow Films' Dune disc release, it was later released on their paid streaming service Arrow Player.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-06 |title=The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune - The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune - ARROW |url=https://www.arrow-player.com/the-sleeper-must-awaken-making-dune/videos/the-sleeper-must-awaken-making-dune |access-date=2024-10-20 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220706062218/https://www.arrow-player.com/the-sleeper-must-awaken-making-dune/videos/the-sleeper-must-awaken-making-dune |archive-date=July 6, 2022 }}{{Cite web |last=Evry |first=Max |date=2022-03-23 |title=The Sleeper Must Awaken Director Daniel Griffith On Arrow's Dune '84 Documentary [Interview] |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/808095/the-sleeper-must-awaken-director-daniel-griffith-on-arrows-dune-84-documentary-interview/ |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=SlashFilm |language=en-US}}

In 2008, Paramount Pictures announced that it had a new feature film adaptation of Dune in development with Peter Berg set to direct;{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/features/berg-to-direct-dune-for-paramount-1117982560/|title=Berg to direct Dune for Paramount|first=Tatiana|last=Siegel|website=Variety|date=March 18, 2008|access-date=February 15, 2019|archive-date=February 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215215735/https://variety.com/2008/film/features/berg-to-direct-dune-for-paramount-1117982560/|url-status=live}} Berg dropped out of the project in October 2009,{{cite web|url=http://www.latinoreview.com/news/special-preview-el-guapo-spends-a-day-on-a-navy-destroyer-for-peter-berg-s-battleship-8681|title=Special Preview: El Guapo Spends A Day On A Navy Destroyer For Peter Berg's Battleship!|first=George|last=Roush|publisher=LatinoReview.com|date=December 1, 2009|access-date=January 5, 2010|archive-date=June 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628015542/http://www.latinoreview.com/news/special-preview-el-guapo-spends-a-day-on-a-navy-destroyer-for-peter-berg-s-battleship-8681|url-status=live}} and director Pierre Morel was signed in January 2010.{{cite magazine|url=http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/01/04/dune-remake/ |title=Dune remake back on track with director Pierre Morel |last=Sperling |first=Nicole |date=January 4, 2010 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=January 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114042042/http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/01/04/dune-remake/ |archive-date=January 14, 2010}} Paramount dropped the project in March 2011.{{cite news |first=Simon |last=Reynolds |date=March 23, 2011 |title=Dune remake dropped by Paramount |work=Digital Spy |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a310618/dune-remake-dropped-by-paramount.html |access-date=March 24, 2011 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924015642/http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a310618/dune-remake-dropped-by-paramount.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2011/03/paramount-ends-4-year-attempt-to-turn-frank-herberts-dune-into-film-franchise-116174/|title=Paramount ends 4 year attempt to turn Frank Herbert's Dune into film franchise|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=March 22, 2011|access-date=December 16, 2011|archive-date=May 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530033142/http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/paramount-ends-4-year-attempt-to-turn-frank-herberts-dune-into-film-franchise/|url-status=live}}

In November 2016, Legendary Pictures acquired the film and TV rights for Dune.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/11/dune-frank-herbert-sci-fi-novel-legendary-rights-acquisition-1201858221/ |title=Legendary Acquires Frank Herbert's Classic Sci-Fi Novel Dune For Film And TV |last=Busch |first=Anita |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=November 21, 2016 |access-date=November 27, 2016 |archive-date=December 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222045356/http://deadline.com/2016/11/dune-frank-herbert-sci-fi-novel-legendary-rights-acquisition-1201858221/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/legendary-dune-frank-herbert-1201923648/ |title=Legendary Lands Rights to Classic Sci-Fi Novel Dune |last=Kroll |first=Justin |work=Variety |date=November 21, 2016 |access-date=November 27, 2016 |archive-date=December 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222044604/http://variety.com/2016/film/news/legendary-dune-frank-herbert-1201923648/ |url-status=live }} Variety reported in December 2016 that Denis Villeneuve was in negotiations to direct Dune,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/denis-villeneuve-dune-reboot-legendary-pictures-1201929280/|title=Blade Runner 2049 Helmer Denis Villeneuve Eyed to Direct Dune Reboot|last=Kroll|first=Justin|work=Variety|date=December 21, 2016|access-date=December 21, 2016|archive-date=December 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222065624/http://variety.com/2016/film/news/denis-villeneuve-dune-reboot-legendary-pictures-1201929280/|url-status=live}} which was confirmed in February 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/02/01/official-dune-reboot-legendary-pictures-director/|title=It's Official: The Dune Reboot Has Found Its Director|last=Watters|first=Bill|work=Bleeding Cool|date=February 1, 2017|access-date=February 1, 2017|archive-date=January 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107151653/https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/02/01/official-dune-reboot-legendary-pictures-director/|url-status=live}} In early 2018, Villeneuve stated that his goal was to adapt the novel into a two-part film series.{{cite web|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/denis-villeneuve-dune-remake-two-films/|title=At Least Two Dune Films Are Being Planned by Denis Villeneuve|last=Bui|first=Hoai-Tran|date=March 9, 2018|access-date=May 21, 2018|website=/Film|archive-date=May 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522042236/http://www.slashfilm.com/denis-villeneuve-dune-remake-two-films/|url-status=live}} He said in May 2018 that the first draft of the script had been finished.{{cite news |title=The First Draft of Denis Villeneuve's Dune is Done, Pre-Production Begins 'Soon' |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/dune-first-draft-denis-villeneuve/ |website=/Film |last=Bui |first=Hoai-Tran |date=May 3, 2018 |access-date=July 16, 2018 |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715210644/https://www.slashfilm.com/dune-first-draft-denis-villeneuve/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |first=Marc-Andre |last=Lussier |title=Denis Villeneuve: 'I'm relaxed, but I take my role seriously!' |url=http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/festivals-de-cinema/festival-de-cannes/201805/09/01-5178950-denis-villeneuve-je-suis-detendu-mais-je-prends-mon-role-au-serieux.php |date=May 9, 2018 |access-date=July 16, 2018 |work=La Presse |language=fr |quote=The director of Blade Runner 2049 has also revealed that a first version of the screenplay of Dune ... is now ready. |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715211021/http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/festivals-de-cinema/festival-de-cannes/201805/09/01-5178950-denis-villeneuve-je-suis-detendu-mais-je-prends-mon-role-au-serieux.php |url-status=live }} In July 2018, Brian Herbert confirmed that the latest draft of the screenplay covered "approximately half of the novel Dune."{{cite web|url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/denis-villeneuves-dune-will-only-dive-into-half-of-the-1827862923|title=Denis Villeneuve's Dune Will Only Dive Into Half of the First Book|first=Beth|last=Elderkin|website=io9|date=July 25, 2018|access-date=July 26, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005040/https://io9.gizmodo.com/denis-villeneuves-dune-will-only-dive-into-half-of-the-1827862923|url-status=live}} Timothée Chalamet was cast to play Paul Atreides.{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/timothee-chalamet-dune-denis-villeneuve-interview-1202007509|title=Timothée Chalamet Raves About Dune and Denis Villeneuve: 'If You Do a Big Movie, Make Sure It's With a Great Director'|first=Zack|last=Sharf|work=IndieWire|date=September 27, 2018|access-date=December 11, 2018|archive-date=December 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206163431/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/timothee-chalamet-dune-denis-villeneuve-interview-1202007509/|url-status=live}} Greig Fraser joined the project as cinematographer in December 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/dune-denis-villeneuve-roger-deakins-part-ways-greig-fraser-cinematographer-1202025557/|title=Roger Deakins Won't Be Working on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, Greig Fraser to Shoot|work=IndieWire|first=Zack|last=Sharf|date=December 6, 2018|access-date=December 11, 2018|archive-date=December 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207122325/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/dune-denis-villeneuve-roger-deakins-part-ways-greig-fraser-cinematographer-1202025557/|url-status=live}} In September 2018, it was reported that Rebecca Ferguson was in talks to play Jessica Atreides.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/rebecca-ferguson-dune-reboot-1202928647/|title=Rebecca Ferguson in Talks to Star Opposite Timothee Chalamet in Dune Reboot|first=Justin|last=Kroll|work=Variety|date=September 5, 2018|access-date=January 11, 2019|archive-date=February 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215012232/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/rebecca-ferguson-dune-reboot-1202928647/|url-status=live}} In January 2019, Dave Bautista{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/dave-bautista-dune-reboot-1203101834/|title=Dave Bautista Joins Legendary's Dune Reboot|first=Justin|last=Kroll|work=Variety|date=January 7, 2019|access-date=January 11, 2019|archive-date=January 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111023441/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/dave-bautista-dune-reboot-1203101834/|url-status=live}} and Stellan Skarsgård{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/stellan-skarsgard-playing-villain-in-dune-movie-1203104276/|title=Stellan Skarsgard to Play Villain in Dune Movie|first=Dave|last=McNary|work=Variety|date=January 9, 2019|access-date=January 11, 2019|archive-date=January 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110073447/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/stellan-skarsgard-playing-villain-in-dune-movie-1203104276/|url-status=live}} joined the production, playing Glossu Rabban and Vladimir Harkonnen, respectively. It was reported later that month that Charlotte Rampling had been cast as Reverend Mother Mohiam,{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/charlotte-rampling-joins-timothee-chalamet-dune-1176429|title=Charlotte Rampling Joins Timothee Chalamet in Dune|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Borys|last=Kit|date=January 15, 2019|access-date=January 29, 2019|archive-date=January 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130183639/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/charlotte-rampling-joins-timothee-chalamet-dune-1176429|url-status=live}} Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto,{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dune-movie-casts-oscar-isaac-1180655 |title=Oscar Isaac Joining Denis Villeneuve's Dune |website=The Hollywood Reporter |first1=Borys |last1=Kit |first2=Aaron |last2=Couch |date=January 29, 2019 |access-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-date=January 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130053632/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dune-movie-casts-oscar-isaac-1180655 |url-status=live }} Zendaya as Chani,{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dune-movie-zendaya-early-talks-star-1181245 |title=Zendaya Circling Denis Villeneuve's Dune |first=Mia |last=Galuppo |date=January 30, 2019 |access-date=January 30, 2019 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-date=January 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131145217/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dune-movie-zendaya-early-talks-star-1181245 |url-status=live }} and Javier Bardem as Stilgar.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/javier-bardem-dune-reboot-1203126074/ |title=Javier Bardem Joins Timothee Chalamet in 'Dune' Reboot |website=Variety |first1=Justin |last1=Kroll |date=February 1, 2019 |access-date=February 1, 2019 |archive-date=February 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201210518/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/javier-bardem-dune-reboot-1203126074/ |url-status=live }} In February 2019, Josh Brolin was cast as Gurney Halleck,{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/josh-brolin-dune-reboot-1203138493/ |title=Josh Brolin Joins Timothee Chalamet in Star-Studded Dune Reboot |first=Justin |last=Kroll |website=Variety |date=February 13, 2019 |access-date=February 13, 2019 |archive-date=February 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214145013/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/josh-brolin-dune-reboot-1203138493/ |url-status=live }} Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho,{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/02/jason-momoa-dune-aquaman-frank-herbert-denis-villenueve-1202557876/|title=Aquaman{{'s}} Jason Momoa Joins Killer Cast of Denis Villenueve's Dune|work=Deadline Hollywood|first1=Mike|last1=Fleming Jr|date=February 14, 2019|access-date=February 14, 2019|archive-date=February 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215025056/https://deadline.com/2019/02/jason-momoa-dune-aquaman-frank-herbert-denis-villenueve-1202557876/|url-status=live}} and David Dastmalchian as Piter De Vries.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/02/legendary-dune-david-dastmalchian-1202560175/|title=Legendary's Dune Film Adds Ant-Man and the Wasp Actor David Dastmalchian|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Amanda|last=N'Duka|date=February 19, 2019|access-date=February 19, 2019|archive-date=February 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220063048/https://deadline.com/2019/02/legendary-dune-david-dastmalchian-1202560175/|url-status=live}} Filming began March 18, 2019, and the film was shot on location in Budapest, Hungary and Jordan.{{cite press release |author= |title=Cameras Roll on Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Entertainment's Epic Adaptation of Dune |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190318005491/en/Cameras-Roll-Warner-Bros.-Pictures-Legendary-Entertainment%E2%80%99s |location=Burbank, California |publisher=Warner Brothers |agency=Business Wire |date=March 18, 2019 |access-date=2019-03-19 |archive-date=2019-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321053127/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190318005491/en/Cameras-Roll-Warner-Bros.-Pictures-Legendary-Entertainment%E2%80%99s |url-status=live }} Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Villeneuve's Dune was released on October 22, 2021.{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/dune-movie-new-release-date-delayed-2021/|title=Exclusive: Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' Movie Is Moving to Late 2021|website=Collider|first=Jeff|last=Sneider|date=October 5, 2020|access-date=October 5, 2020|archive-date=October 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005192147/https://collider.com/dune-movie-new-release-date-delayed-2021/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/dune-baz-luhrmann-elvis-presley-movie-release-dates-1202660346/|title=Warner Bros. Dates Baz Luhrmann Elvis Presley Movie, Shifts Dune & More|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=August 2, 2019|access-date=August 2, 2019|work=Deadline Hollywood|archive-date=August 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802231703/https://deadline.com/2019/08/dune-baz-luhrmann-elvis-presley-movie-release-dates-1202660346/|url-status=live}} Dune was a critical and commercial success, leading Legendary Pictures to greenlight a sequel, Dune: Part Two, within that week.{{cite web |last1=Couch |first1=Aaron |last2=McClintock |first2=Pamela |date=October 26, 2021 |title=Dune 2 a Go from Legendary, Warner Bros. |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dune-2-greenlit-movie-release-date-1235036655/ |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=October 27, 2021 |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026181508/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dune-2-greenlit-movie-release-date-1235036655/ |url-status=live }} The film was released on March 1, 2024.{{cite web|title=Dune: Part Two Release Date Moves Up Two Weeks to Kick Off March 2024|url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/dune-2-release-date-moves-march-1-2024-1235795795/|first=Zack|last=Sharf|date=November 17, 2023|website=Variety|access-date=November 17, 2023|archive-date=November 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117191709/https://variety.com/2023/film/news/dune-2-release-date-moves-march-1-2024-1235795795/|url-status=live}}

Prior to the release of Dune, Villeneuve confirmed at the 2021 Venice Film Festival that a film based on Dune Messiah was planned, and it would serve as the third film in a trilogy.{{cite web|url=https://nerdist.com/article/dune-movie-trilogy-messiah-denis-villeneuve/|title=Dune Director Denis Villeneuve Teases Trilogy Plans|website=Nerdist|last=Casey|first=Dan|date=September 3, 2021|access-date=September 3, 2021|language=en}} After Dune: Part Two was officially greenlit in October 2021, Villeneuve reiterated his hope to continue the series with a third film focusing on Dune Messiah.{{cite web | url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/dune-2-denis-villeneuve-part-two-1235038791/ | title = Denis Villeneuve on Dune Success and the Road to Part Two | first= Brian | last= Davids | date = October 28, 2021 | access-date= October 28, 2021 | work = The Hollywood Reporter }}{{cite web | url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/denis-villeneuve-talks-taxing-dune-shoot-identifying-with-paul-atreides-sequel-plans/5166312.article | title=Denis Villeneuve talks 'taxing' Dune shoot, identifying with Paul Atreides, sequel plans | last=Jolin | first=Dan | website=Screendaily.com | date=January 10, 2022 | access-date=January 13, 2022 | language=en}} Screenwriter Jon Spaihts confirmed in March 2022 that Villeneuve still planned on a third film.{{cite web|url=https://theplaylist.net/jon-spaihts-dune-trilogy-park-chan-wook-20220310/|title=Jon Spaihts on a Potential Dune Trilogy & Collaborating With Park Chan-Wook [Interview]|last=Ellwood|first=Gregory|website=ThePlaylist.net|date=March 10, 2022|access-date=March 11, 2022|language=en}} Villeneuve began writing a script for a Dune Messiah film in 2023.{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/6589871/denis-villeneuve-dune-part-two-interview/|title=Denis Villeneuve Refuses to Let Hollywood Shrink Him Down to Size|magazine=Time|last=Zacharek|first=Stephanie|date=31 January 2024|access-date=3 February 2024|language=en}} In February 2024, he said the script was "almost finished" but also wanted to take time to ensure his satisfaction, citing Hollywood's tendency of focusing on release dates over a film's overall quality.{{Cite web |last=Bythrow |first=Nick |date=2024-02-26 |title="The Danger In Hollywood": Dune 3's Release Delay Plan Defended By Denis Villeneuve |url=https://screenrant.com/dune-3-movie-production-timeline-release-reason-why-denis-villeneuve/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}} In April 2024, following the critical and commercial success of Dune: Part Two, Legendary Pictures confirmed that Dune Messiah was in development with Villeneuve returning as director.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/dune-3-denis-villeneuve-legendary-nuclear-war-1235960990/|title=Denis Villeneuve and Legendary Developing Dune 3 and Nuclear War: A Scenario Film Adaptation|first=Jaden|last=Thompson|date=April 4, 2024|website=Variety|access-date=April 7, 2024}}

{{main|Frank Herbert's Dune|Frank Herbert's Children of Dune|Dune: Prophecy}}

The Sci-Fi Channel premiered a three-part miniseries adaptation called Frank Herbert's Dune on December 3, 2000.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/tv/cover-story-future-myths-adrift-in-the-sands-of-time.html?src=pm |title=Cover Story: Future Myths, Adrift in the Sands of Time |first=Marilyn |last=Stasio |work=The New York Times |date=December 3, 2000 |access-date=August 21, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222224856/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/tv/cover-story-future-myths-adrift-in-the-sands-of-time.html?src=pm |url-status=live }} Its March 16, 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, combined both Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.{{cite web |url=http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Television&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=&obj_id=26343 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316172142/http://www.mania.com/dune-remaking-classic-novel_article_26343.html |archive-date=March 16, 2008 |title=Dune: Remaking the Classic Novel |first=Steve |last=Fritz |website=Cinescape |date=December 4, 2000 |access-date=March 14, 2010}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2017/09/19/syfys-children-of-dune-miniseries-delivers-on-emotion-when-philosophy-falls-flat/|title=SyFy's Children of Dune Miniseries Delivers On Emotion When Philosophy Falls Flat|first=Emmet|last=Asher-Perrin|date=September 19, 2017|website=Tor.com|access-date=February 20, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306170041/https://www.tor.com/2017/09/19/syfys-children-of-dune-miniseries-delivers-on-emotion-when-philosophy-falls-flat/|url-status=live}} As of 2004, both miniseries were two of the three highest-rated programs ever to be broadcast on Syfy. Frank Herbert's Dune won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001, for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001?page=1|title=Nominees/Winners (Outstanding Cinematography)|publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310094843/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001?page=1|url-status=live}} and Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001?page=8|title=Nominees/Winners (Outstanding Special Visual Effects)|publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-date=April 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419082856/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001?page=8|url-status=live}} The miniseries was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001?page=4|title=Nominees/Winners (Outstanding Sound Editing)|publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310094843/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001?page=4|url-status=live}} Frank Herbert's Children of Dune won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special in 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003?page=8|title=Nominees/Winners (Outstanding Special Visual Effects)|publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305174747/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003?page=8|url-status=live}} The miniseries was also nominated for Emmys for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special,{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003?page=4|title=Nominees/Winners (Outstanding Sound Editing/Hairstyling)|publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310121336/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003?page=4|url-status=live}} Outstanding Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie, and Outstanding Makeup for a Limited Series or Movie (Non-Prosthetic).{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003?page=7|title=Nominees/Winners (Outstanding Makeup)|publisher=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310121340/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2003?page=7|url-status=live}}

In June 2019 it was announced that Legendary Television would be producing a spin-off television series, Dune: The Sisterhood, for WarnerMedia's streaming service, HBO Max. The series would focus on the Bene Gesserit and serve as a prequel to the 2021 film. Villeneuve was set to direct the series' pilot with Jon Spaihts writing the screenplay, and both would serve as executive producers alongside Brian Herbert.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/dune-series-bene-gesserit-warnermedia-streaming-service-1203238799/|title=Dune Series Ordered at WarnerMedia Streaming Service, Denis Villeneuve to Direct|first=Joe|last=Otterson|date=June 10, 2019|access-date=June 10, 2019|work=Variety|archive-date=June 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611000442/https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/dune-series-bene-gesserit-warnermedia-streaming-service-1203238799/|url-status=live}} Though he initially served as showrunner, on November 5, 2019, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Spaihts had stepped down from this position to focus more on the sequel to the 2021 film.{{Cite web|title=Dune: The Sisterhood Showrunner to Exit HBO Max Series|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dune-sisterhood-showrunner-exit-hbo-max-series-1252449|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 5, 2019|first=Lesley|last=Goldberg|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=December 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216003641/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dune-sisterhood-showrunner-exit-hbo-max-series-1252449|url-status=live}} Diane Ademu-John had been hired as the new showrunner by July 2021.{{Cite web|last=Otterson|first=Joe|date=July 22, 2021|title='Dune' HBO Max Series Enlists Diane Ademu-John as New Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/dune-tv-series-hbo-max-showrunner-diane-ademu-john-1235024854/|access-date=July 22, 2021|website=Variety|language=en-US|archive-date=July 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722160643/https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/dune-tv-series-hbo-max-showrunner-diane-ademu-john-1235024854/|url-status=live}} The series was retitled Dune: Prophecy in November 2023,{{Cite web |last=Iannucci |first=Rebecca |date=November 2, 2023 |title=HBO Lays Out 2024 Release Plan for House of the Dragon, Curb and Others |url=https://tvline.com/news/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-release-date-hbo-update-1235069564/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102162825/https://tvline.com/news/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-release-date-hbo-update-1235069564/ |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |website=TVLine}} and was moved to HBO in July 2024, and was set to premiere later that year.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/07/the-penguin-dune-prophecy-hbo-1236006935/|title=Max Originals The Penguin & Dune: Prophecy Moving to HBO|first=Peter|last=White|date=July 11, 2024|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=June 11, 2024|archive-date=July 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711143824/https://deadline.com/2024/07/the-penguin-dune-prophecy-hbo-1236006935/|url-status=live}} The series was released on November 17, 2024.{{Cite web |first1=Anthony |last1=D'Alessandro |first2=Sean |last2=Piccoli |date=October 17, 2024 |title=Dune: Prophecy Gets Max Premiere Date, Unveils Official Trailer at NYCC |url=https://deadline.com/video/dune-prophecy-premiere-date-max/ |access-date=October 17, 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood |language=en-US}}

A comic adaptation of David Lynch's film Dune, by writer Ralph Macchio and artist Bill Sienkiewicz, was produced by Marvel Comics and was published in various formats. On December 1, 1984, it was published with Berkley in a small paperback as Dune: The Official Comic Book ({{ISBN|0-425-07623-7}}). It was later released as Marvel Super Special #36: Dune{{Cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/issue/39463/|title=Issue: Marvel Super Special #36|website=Grand Comics Database|via=comics.org|access-date=January 10, 2020|archive-date=January 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200118075329/https://www.comics.org/issue/39463/|url-status=live}} on April 1, 1985, and as a three-issue limited comic series from Marvel entitled Dune from April to June 1985.{{Cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/series/3014/|title=Series: Dune|website=Grand Comics Database|via=comics.org|access-date=January 10, 2020|archive-date=December 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222170649/https://www.comics.org/series/3014/|url-status=live}}

In January 2020, Entertainment Weekly reported that Abrams Books was developing a three-part graphic novel adaptation of Dune, which was the first time the novel has been published in this format. The graphic novels were written by Brian Herbert and Anderson and illustrated by Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín, with covers by Bill Sienkiewicz.{{Cite magazine |last=Holub |first=Christian |date=January 7, 2020 |title=See exclusive first images from the Dune graphic novel |url=https://ew.com/books/2020/01/07/see-first-images-from-the-dune-graphic-novel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430005735/https://ew.com/books/2020/01/07/see-first-images-from-the-dune-graphic-novel/ |archive-date=April 30, 2020 |access-date=January 10, 2020 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} The first part, Dune: The Comic Novel, Book 1 was published on November 24, 2020, followed by Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad’Dib on August 2, 2022 and Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet on July 16, 2024.

In May 2020, Boom! Studios was announced to have acquired the comic and graphic novel rights to the 1999 prequel novel Dune: House Atreides, with the intent of doing a 12-issue comic adaptation written by the original authors Brian Herbert and Anderson.{{Cite web|title=Dune Prequel House Atreides Comic Adaptation in the Works|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dune-prequel-house-atreides-comic-adaptation-works-1294026|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Graeme|last=McMillan|date=May 11, 2020|access-date=May 15, 2020|archive-date=May 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515032633/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dune-prequel-house-atreides-comic-adaptation-works-1294026|url-status=live}} In 2021 they announced another 12-issue comic series based on Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's 2019 short story "Blood of the Sardaukar."

{{main|List of games based on Dune}}

Six licensed Dune computer and video games have been released. The first was Dune (1992) developed by Cryo Interactive.{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/dune|title=Game Overview: Dune (1992)|website=MobyGames|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-date=January 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111065427/http://www.mobygames.com/game/dune|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.abandonia.com/games/46/download/Dune.htm|title=Review: Dune (1992)|website=Abandonia.com|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-date=May 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514235245/http://www.abandonia.com/games/46/download/Dune.htm|url-status=live}} Another game developed at the same time, Westwood Studios' Dune II (1992), is generally credited for popularizing and setting the template for the real-time strategy genre of computer games.{{cite book|first=Bob|last=Bates|title=Game Developer's Market Guide|page=141|publisher=Thomson Course Technology|date=2003|isbn=1-59200-104-1}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/real_time/p2_02.html|title=A History of Real-Time Strategy Games: Dune II|first=Bruce|last=Geryk|date=May 19, 2008|access-date=January 4, 2011|website=GameSpot|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628235716/http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/real_time/p2_02.html |archive-date=June 28, 2011}} Dune II is considered to be among the most influential video games of all time.{{cite book |last1=Loguidice |first1=Bill |last2=Barton |first2=Matt |chapter=Spicing Up Strategy in Real Time |title=Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time |date=2012 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-136-13758-7 |pages=65–76 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKF5AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 |access-date=April 16, 2020 |archive-date=March 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308011125/https://books.google.com/books?id=mKF5AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

Dune 2000 (1998) is a remake of Dune II from Intelligent Games.{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/dune-2000|title=Game Overview: Dune 2000 (1998)|website=MobyGames|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-date=January 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113071307/http://www.mobygames.com/game/dune-2000|url-status=live}} Its sequel was the 3D video game Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001) by Intelligent Games/Westwood Studios/Electronic Arts.{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/emperor-battle-for-dune|title=Game Overview: Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001)|website=MobyGames|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-date=January 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110054717/http://www.mobygames.com/game/emperor-battle-for-dune|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.guru3d.com/gamereviews/dune/|title=Review: Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001)|website=Guru3D.com|access-date=March 17, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118114920/http://www.guru3d.com/gamereviews/dune/|archive-date=January 18, 2010}} The 3D game Frank Herbert's Dune (2001) by Cryo Interactive/DreamCatcher Interactive is based on the 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries of the same name.{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/frank-herberts-dune|title=Game Overview: Frank Herbert's Dune (2001)|website=MobyGames|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-date=May 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513045116/https://www.mobygames.com/game/frank-herberts-dune|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/company/cryo-interactive-entertainment|title=Overview: Cryo Interactive Entertainment|website=MobyGames|access-date=March 17, 2010|archive-date=January 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110054348/http://www.mobygames.com/company/cryo-interactive-entertainment|url-status=live}}

On February 26, 2019, Funcom announced that it was entering into an exclusive partnership with Legendary Pictures to develop games related to the upcoming Dune films.{{cite press release|url=https://investors.funcom.com/funcom-n-v-enters-into-exclusive-partnership-with-legendary-studios-for-games-in-the-dune-universe/|title=Funcom N.V. enters into exclusive partnership with Legendary Entertainment for games in the Dune universe|date=February 26, 2019|access-date=March 3, 2019|publisher=Funcom|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043051/https://investors.funcom.com/funcom-n-v-enters-into-exclusive-partnership-with-legendary-studios-for-games-in-the-dune-universe/|url-status=dead}} The first game, Dune: Spice Wars, developed by Shiro Games, was released in early access on April 26, 2022.{{Cite web |last=Weber |first=Rachel |date=April 25, 2022 |title=Dune: Spice Wars enters Early Access with sandworms, strategy, and serious lore |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/dune-spice-wars-enters-early-access-with-sandworms-strategy-and-serious-lore/ |access-date=April 26, 2022 |website=GamesRadar+ |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426220709/https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/dune-spice-wars-enters-early-access-with-sandworms-strategy-and-serious-lore/ |url-status=live }}

In January 2022, characters from both Rick and Morty parodies of Dune (in particular Paul Atreides-themed versions of Morty Smith) were made available as playable characters in the franchise video game Pocket Mortys.

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The board game Dune was released by Avalon Hill in 1979,{{Cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/3419/interview-peter-olotka-cosmic-encounter-and-dne|title=Interview: Peter Olotka on Cosmic Encounter and D*ne|date=July 9, 2011|first=W. Eric|last=Martin|website=BoardGameGeek|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030190648/https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/3419/interview-peter-olotka-cosmic-encounter-and-dne|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/121/dune|title=Dune (1979)|website=BoardGameGeek|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028063320/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/121/dune|url-status=live}} followed by a Parker Brothers game Dune in 1984.{{Cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/680/dune|title=Dune (1984)|website=BoardGameGeek|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030190625/https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/680/dune|url-status=live}} A 1997 collectible card game called Dune{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/sherlockazulu/dune_scrye.htm |title=Dune: Classic CCG|last=Baumrucker|first=Steven|date=May 2003|work=Scrye|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040503002210/http://www.geocities.com/sherlockazulu/dune_scrye.htm|archive-date=May 3, 2004|url-status=dead}} was followed by the role-playing game Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium in 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4161.html|title=Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium Capsule Review|last=Guder|first=Derek|date=April 19, 2001|website=RPG.net|access-date=March 18, 2010|archive-date=June 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612174037/http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4161.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wizards.com/dune/ |title=D20 Product News: Dune|year=2000|website=Wizards.com|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124104300/http://www.wizards.com/dune/|archive-date=January 24, 2001|url-status=dead}} The 1979 Avalon Hill game was republished by Gale Force Nine in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/9/20797781/dune-board-game-gale-force-9-pre-order-release-date-price|title=The mythical Dune board game, once lost to licensing hell, is coming back|first=Charlie|last=Hall|date=August 9, 2019|website=Polygon|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809203447/https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/9/20797781/dune-board-game-gale-force-9-pre-order-release-date-price|url-status=live}} The board game Dune: Imperium was published by Dire Wolf in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/dune-imperium-board-game-review|title=Dune: Imperium Review|first=Matt|last=Thrower|date=October 20, 2021|website=IGN|access-date=February 8, 2022|archive-date=February 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208055448/https://www.ign.com/articles/dune-imperium-board-game-review|url-status=live}} In May 2021, a tabletop RPG, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, was released by Modiphius Entertainment.{{cite web|url=https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dune-adventures-in-the-imperium/review/dune-rpg-review-adventures-in-the-imperium|title=Dune: Adventures in the Imperium RPG review|date=May 6, 2021|website=Dicebreaker|access-date=September 14, 2022|archive-date=September 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915033138/https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dune-adventures-in-the-imperium/review/dune-rpg-review-adventures-in-the-imperium|url-status=live}} It won a Gold ENNIE Award for "Best Writing" and was also nominated for "Product of the Year.".{{Cite web |title=2022 Nominees and Winners – ENNIE Awards |url=https://ennie-awards.com/portfolio-item/2022-nominees-and-winners/ |access-date=2023-04-24 |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424173634/https://ennie-awards.com/portfolio-item/2022-nominees-and-winners/ |url-status=live }}

A line of Dune action figures from toy company LJN was released to lackluster sales in 1984. Styled after David Lynch's film, the collection featured figures of Paul Atreides, Baron Harkonnen, Feyd, Rabban, Stilgar, and a Sardaukar warrior, plus a poseable sandworm, several vehicles and weapons, and a set of View-Master stereoscope reels. Figures of Gurney and Lady Jessica previewed in LJN's catalog were never produced.{{Cite web|url=https://nerdbastards.com/2014/01/12/toys-we-miss-dune/|title=Toys We Miss: The Long Forgotten Figures From Frank Herbert's Dune|first=James|last=Daniels|website=Nerd Bastards|date=January 12, 2014|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=January 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127111043/http://nerdbastards.com/2014/01/12/toys-we-miss-dune/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.collectorsofdune.com/toys.asp|title=Toys|website=Collectors of Dune|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030152955/https://www.collectorsofdune.com/toys.asp|url-status=live}} In 2006, SOTA Toys produced a Baron Harkonnen action figure for their "Now Playing Presents" line. In October 2019, Funko announced a "Dune Classic" line of POP! vinyl figures, the first of which are Paul in a stillsuit and Feyd in a blue jumpsuit, styled after Lynch's film.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/funko-dune-pops/|title=Funko Adds Dune to its Pop! Line-up|website=Comic Book Resources|first=Tyler|last=Murphy|date=October 20, 2019|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030024933/https://www.cbr.com/funko-dune-pops/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.funko.com/blog/article/coming-soon-pop-movies-dune-classic|title=Coming Soon: Pop! Movies—Dune Classic!|first=Jesse|last=Little|publisher=Funko|date=October 18, 2019|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030024947/https://www.funko.com/blog/article/coming-soon-pop-movies-dune-classic|url-status=live}} An alternate version of Feyd in his blue loincloth was released for the 2019 New York Comic Con.{{cite web|url=https://www.funko.com/blog/article/2019-nycc-exclusive-reveals-dune-feyd-rautha|title=2019 NYCC Exclusive Reveals: Dune!|first=Jesse|last=Little|publisher=Funko|date=September 4, 2019|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030153602/https://www.funko.com/blog/article/2019-nycc-exclusive-reveals-dune-feyd-rautha|url-status=live}}

Soundtrack albums have been released for the 1984 film, the 2000 TV miniseries, and the 2003 Children of Dune miniseries, as well as the 1992 video game, the 2001 computer game Emperor: Battle for Dune, and select tracks from the entire series of Dune video games.{{cite web|url=http://www.duneinfo.com/cd/frankklepacki.asp|title=Frank Klepacki Dune Music - Dune - Behind The Scenes|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125065415/http://www.duneinfo.com/cd/frankklepacki.asp|archive-date=2007-01-25}}

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