Dune, famously, is an unfilmable piece of work. It has four appendices and a glossary of its own gibberish, and its action takes place on two planets, one of which is a desert overrun by worms the size of airport runways. Lots of important people die or try to kill each other, and they’re all tethered to about eight entangled subplots. But as Denis Villeneuve, the director of the latest attempt to put Dune on the screen, says of the undertaking, “We are bound to try to do the impossible.”Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel is more than just a …
