‘Dune: Part One’ fifth-anniversary thread revisits earlier adaptation attempts

Two earlier attempts to adapt Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ feature in ATRightMovies’s fifth-anniversary thread: it says Apjac’s project stalled after Arthur Jacobs died, and a French consortium hired Alejandro Jodorowsky. The thread also recounts a move from a planned November 2020 opening to October 2021, alongside a simultaneous HBO Max release, and credits Denis Villeneuve’s film with six Academy Awards.