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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Well, when you don't have five sequals to do it in like Herbert did, you sort of need somebody to do that...
My college creative writing professor was a good friend of Frank Herbert. He said that the whole experience of having his vision wrested away from him and turned into this disaster of a film plunged him into a spiral of poor health and depression that, my professor felt, lead to his death. Bad adaptations kill people!
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Well in all fairness every sequel pretty much sucked until the last one.
Dune really was a masterpiece though, and if that is indeed true, then my noose analogy was more apt than I could have imagined.