In the year 10,191, and in a world bearing little resemblance to our own, two powerful families wage war over the most powerful substance in the universe: the Spice.
The House Atreides, led by Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) and his concubine, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) will oversee the mining of Spice on the dessert planet of Arrakis. Meanwhile, the vicious House of Harkonnen, ruled by the vile Baron (Stellan Skarsgard) plots an elaborate attack on the Atreides, with Shakespearean betrayals and a violent overthrow as the end goal.
An unexpected obstacle for the Harkonnens is Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet), Lady Jessica’s son, who possesses a power he developed from his mother, which may not only save him from the coup d’état, but also prove him to be the prophesied Muad’Dib.
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