Duke Leto Atreides is given Arrakis, the desert planet of the spice, and moves there with his concubine Jessica and his son, Paul. It's a trap: Baron Harkonnen attacks with the Emperor's Sardaukar, and the traitor is Dr. Yueh. Leto dies, and Paul and Jessica flee into the desert. The Fremen take them in; Paul kills Jamis in a duel, becomes Muad'Dib and bonds with Chani. Jessica becomes a Reverend Mother, and Alia is born already aware. Paul drinks the Water of Life, awakens as the Kwisatz Haderach and leads the Fremen against the Emperor. He kills Feyd-Rautha in a duel and takes the throne by claiming Princess Irulan's hand. Hanging over it all is the holy war he foresaw.
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5 what changed in the movie
What changed in the movie
ChangeLiet Kynes became a woman
In the book, planetologist Liet Kynes is a man. Villeneuve made the character a woman, played by Sharon Duncan-Brewster, and changed the death scene.
In the book, the story jumps two years and Alia appears as an unsettling child. The film squeezes the timeline to under nine months: Jessica ends up still pregnant and Alia only speaks from the womb.
In the book, Chani accepts being a concubine while Paul marries Irulan for politics. In Part Two, she rejects Paul and heads off into the desert alone.
Thufir Hawat, who ends up as the Harkonnens' mentat in the book, and Count Fenring, a dangerous rival to Paul, are missing from Part Two. Paul and Chani's son doesn't exist in the films either.
In the book, Paul threatens the Spacing Guild: he can destroy the spice with the Water of Life. In the film he threatens the Great Houses instead, using the atomics.
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