![]() Instructed by the Bene Gesserit to first conceive a daughter with Leto to further the order's centuries-long breeding program, she disobeyed out of love for Leto, and gave him a son. Jessica is one of the Bene Gesserit, a secretive, matriarchal order who achieve superhuman abilities through physical and mental conditioning and the use of the drug melange. In Dune, Lady Jessica is the concubine of Duke Leto and the mother of his son Paul and daughter Alia. The character is played by Timothée Chalamet in the 2021 film Dune and its sequel, Dune: Part Two (2024). Paul is portrayed by Kyle MacLachlan in the 1984 film adaptation Dune, and by Alec Newman in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and its 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. Children of Dune finds Paul's heirs trying to maintain the already declining empire he has abandoned. In Dune Messiah, Paul's empire is challenged by the conspiracies of various factions hoping to destroy him, while a jihad in his name rages across the universe. Paul rises to lead the planetwide Fremen forces against the Imperial stranglehold over Arrakis, ultimately seizing control of the planet and deposing Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. They are taken in by the native Fremen, a secretive population of fierce fighters who thrive despite the scarcity of water and presence of aggressive, giant sandworms. House Atreides is soon betrayed and scattered, with Leto killed, his forces decimated, and Paul and Jessica forced to flee into the open desert. Paul also possesses burgeoning prescient abilities, which are further unlocked by the inescapable exposure to melange on Arrakis. Paul has been trained by his father and several Atreides attendants in fighting and the art of war, and by his mother in some of her Bene Gesserit disciplines. ![]() ![]() In Dune, Paul is the teenage son and heir of Duke Leto Atreides and Lady Jessica, whose family is thrown into the dangerous political intrigues centered on the inhospitable desert planet Arrakis, only known source of the oracular spice melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe. They have also released two sequel novels- Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007)-which complete the original series. Anderson have published 15 prequel novels, collected in the series Prelude to Dune (1999–2001), Legends of Dune (2002–2004), Heroes of Dune (2008–2023), Great Schools of Dune (2012–2016), and The Caladan Trilogy (2020–2022). Since 1999, Herbert's son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. ![]() Additionally, the novel was adapted as a 2000 television miniseries, and the first two sequels were also adapted as a single miniseries in 2003. The series spans 5,000 years, focusing on Paul and then his various descendants.ĭune was adapted as a 1984 film, and again in two parts, the films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). ĭune follows Paul, the scion of House Atreides, as his family is thrown into the dangerous political intrigues centered on the desert planet Arrakis, only known source of the oracular spice melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe. Herbert wrote five sequels before his death in 1986: Dune Messiah (1969), Children of Dune (1976), God Emperor of Dune (1981), Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985). Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history, and won the 1966 Hugo Award as well as the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. From left to right: Chani ( Zendaya), Gurney Halleck ( Josh Brolin), Lady Jessica ( Rebecca Ferguson), Stilgar ( Javier Bardem), Paul Atreides ( Timothée Chalamet), Duncan Idaho ( Jason Momoa), Liet-Kynes ( Sharon Duncan-Brewster) and Leto Atreides ( Oscar Isaac).ĭune is a science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Frank Herbert. Characters from Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021).
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