You also got a bunch of stuff wrong in your next post, but I don't feel like correcting you there. You can just check wikipedia on that.
I will, though.
Long azz series of extremely technical sci-fi novels that were often as difficult to read as they were attention grabbing.
Six books, so not all that long.
Later was made for n to a cult classics mini series with an all-star cast (many big names started there). Author or someone hated the main actor.
It was made into a
movie by David Lynch in 1984, and the only really big name that got his start there was Kyle MacLachlan (Paul). That Frank Herbert (author of
Dune) hated him is total nonsense, they got along great:
Years later, after several video games and even more books, another miniseries was done to reboot the concept...it sucked...big time (didn't have any of the things made Dune - well...DUNE!). More stuff happened. Think a movie was attempted. Eventually, ANOTHER miniseries was made, which actually had all the things the second film was missing. Was a big hit.
There was a Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy) miniseries of
Dune in 2000 and one of
Dune Messiah +
Children of Dune in 2003, both by the same producer and screenwriter, John Harrison (who also directed the first one).
Both miniseries were successful in terms of viewership, with many Dune fans rating the second one more highly (due to the acting, directing and production values, with improved costume designs, sets and special effects).
I don't think there were any serious attempts to get a new movie made in this time frame, but Paramount had a go between 2007 and 2011, with Peter Berg set to direct.
If you ever saw the original (long as hell made-for-tv miniseries... Was it two 4-hour epidoes? Source new at least close, but would have to check), if you saw it, you would NEVER mistake it for entry by else.
As mentioned, it was a theatrical movie by David Lynch. In 1988 it was reedited for TV into two parts totaling 186 minutes (plus commercials), without Lynch's involvement and against his wishes; he had his name removed from this version, replaced by "Alan Smithee."
BEHIND THE DUNE's character designs resemble the original styles somewhat. You could also look at the 1990s DUNE videogames, as those used the same actors as the original first film.
Behind the Dune is primarily a porn parody of the 1992 game
Dune by Cryo (published by Virgin), which used the likenesses of a couple of the actors from the 1984 film (MacLachlan as Paul and Francesca Annis as Jessica, with Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen's face slightly modified from Sting after Cryo tried and failed to get permission to use his likeness; the CD version also included a clip from the film of Virginia Madsen as Princess Irulan). Other characters do not resemble their movie versions, and none of the other 1990s computer games use any of the actors from the film. (The Westwood Dune RTS games use many of the Lynch movie's costumes, as well as its sandworm design, and some of the actors are lookalikes
imitating the original movie actors, though they are supposedly playing different characters.)
The two main things that have carried over from Lynch's
Dune into
Behind the Dune are the sandworm design and Paul and Jessica's hair styles.
