482 million dollars at the box office: today on TV, one of the best science fiction films of the century – Movie news

Carry DuneFrank Herbert’s iconic 1965 novel of the same name, was no easy task. Alejandro Jodorowsky had previously tried it in a project that was never released, and secondly David Lynch, in 1984, whose result, although now cult, ended up being a failure and hated by the director himself. However, the brilliant filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has managed to create one of the best science fiction sagas of the 21st century with his adaptation.

In 2026 we will see the third film in the franchise, Dune: Part 3for whose premiere, which is scheduled for December, we still have to wait a year, but it is already one of the most anticipated projects of the year ahead.

However, the adventure would not have been possible without a first film that, in 2021, demonstrated that adapting the complex novel was absolutely possible. Dune was widely received by specialized critics and also by the public, grossing $411 million, making it the tenth highest grossing film of the year.

In addition, The film was nominated in 10 Oscar categories, including Best Picture, and won six awards in its edition.

Today, we can see it open on television and it is one of the best plans we can think of for a cold Friday night: Dune It will be broadcast free-to-air on La 1 at 10 p.m. and will then be available on demand on the RTVE platform, RTVE Play.

A totemic spectacle

Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), along with his father, Duke Leto (Oscar Isaac), his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), and the entire House Atreides family, moves to the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. There, the Atreides must ensure the continued extraction of spice, a drug that enables intergalactic travel and is only found on Arrakis.

However, the trip to Arrakis turns out to be a trap set by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) in collaboration with the ruler of the Galactic Empire. Paul and his mother are forced to flee to the endless deserts of Dune, where he encounters the mysterious Fremen, led by Stilgar (Javier Bardem), and the intrepid Chani (Zendaya), a nomadic desert people awaiting the arrival of a prophesied savior.

“An unfathomable top-level show,” Alejandro G. Calvo said of it in his 5-star review for SensaCine. “A totemic spectacle that you can only look at with your mouth open and your eyes constantly spinning. The images that Villeneuve constructs are majestic in their bombast, fascinating in their sci-fi design and thunderous in their sound. (…) Denis Villeneuve has worked meticulously to unravel the universe that Herbert presented and what he has achieved is a production with which it is impossible to look away.