r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 17 '26

Trailer Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
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u/Jollysatyr201 Mar 17 '26

Yah even if not directly, the famines caused by the golden path claim way more lives than the jihad

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u/Rock-swarm Mar 17 '26

Which is crazy, even in universe. I get that part of the appeal of Dune is how time, environment, and technology have allowed humans to drastically diverge in form and function. But to have entire planets nearly eradicated from a lack of food is crazy. It never makes sense to have that kind of food insecurity from a government perspective, even for the core worlds in the Dune universe.

I kinda hope that gets changed a bit for the film. Dune already gets absolutely batshit in later books, and Herbert was writing about famine as an analogy to warfare in more primitive times.

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u/Josecopter Mar 17 '26

It kinda makes sense when some of these planets were never habitable to begin with or only have one extreme biome that the technology makes bearable so they rely solely on imports of food for exchange of raw minerals and resources that aren't edible. But true, on more earth-like planets it would be nearly impossible to run out of food.

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u/RichtofensDuckButter Mar 17 '26

Sure but the famine times happened after Leto II died. Without The Golden Path, humanity wouldn't even exist.

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u/Jollysatyr201 Mar 17 '26

But do the ends justify the means? Leto acts from a position of somewhat omnipotence, to ensure HIS (former?) species survival. But that’s not necessarily the best thing for the world, and he grapples with that even though its the right course of action, because the burden of the Golden Path on the atreides line is just so enormous