Frank Herbert's Dune – Two Nerds Sitting On A Couch

Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune: The Miniseries

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on November 4, 2021 0 Comments

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The actors playing Ghanima and Leto Atriedes stand side by side, looking slightly off center. They are wearing stylized court attire.

In which we discuss the SyFy channel’s miniseries which encapsulates the second two of the Dune trilogy by Frank Herbert: Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Though the production was written, produced, and largely acted by the same people, the clunkily…

Frank Herbert’s Dune: the Miniseries

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on October 16, 2021 0 Comments

Posted in books, Dune, futures, movies, podcasts, space, television Tagged Arrakis, Dune, Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune, House Atreides, Paul Muad'Dib, William Hurt

In the second installment in our series on all things Dune, Two Nerds discuss the 2000 SciFi (before it became SyFy) channel’s miniseries entitled Frank Herbert’s Dune. It’s … not great: seriously mis-cast, with weird pretentions of theatricality, but a…