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Here’s What You Missed Last Time on Dune

Ahead of Dune: Part Two’s release, let’s jog your memory of the big plot points in the first movie.

When Part Two ’s autumn release got pushed to this spring during the joint SAG-WGA strike last summer, the message was clear: it would take a lot of work to remember what happened during a movie that came out two and a half years ago. Dune: Part One ends with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) going off into the desert with the Fremen, the indigenous people of Arrakis. The guy from Lady Bird doing math in his head, Charlotte Rampling’s scary outfit …You have the gist of it, which is that Paul is hoping to reclaim Arrakis from the Harkonnens and overpower the emperor by teaming up with the Fremen.

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