A movie I've been looking forward to since it was announced, after a sort of teaser-ish earlier trailer, this is the primary one, giving us some character introductions and some really awesome imagery.
I don't know what it is about the production design that we've seen so far - the brutalist architecture, or what - that seems to really nail the imagery as I imagined Arrakis reading the novel.
For the most part, I think we're looking for just a good straight adaptation of a Sci Fi classic, which this trailer seems to be promising. While the David Lynch movie from the early 80s had fine production design of that classic late-70s-early-80s sci fi style (which is a classic look,) that movie got bogged down in how to adapt a story about extremely smart people all maneuvering around one another. (I honestly wonder how well the movie would be remembered if they hadn't literally just had someone explaining the world for the first fifteen minutes of the movie.)
Visually, this looks as epic as Dune ought to be. What I'll be curious to see is how much the film deals with the subversive themes of the novel, which become more explicit in the later parts of the series. In the initial novel, we're generally meant to view Paul as a classic hero on a classic hero's journey, facing down a grave evil in the form of the Harkonnens (side note, it seems that Josh Brolin's Gurney Halleck says it "HAR-kon-nen," as opposed to what I've always heard, which is "har-KON-nen." Not super important, but slightly jarring.)
Of course, as we discover later in the novel
Er, spoilers for a novel from the 1960s
