by: James A. Barnes

"Arrival" and "Blade Runner 2049" director Denis Villeneuve has tapped Timothee Chalamet to star in his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel, Dune.

Synopsis

It is set in the far future involving worlds beyond Earth, ruled over by competing feudal families who control access to a drug called Melange. Known popularly as “spice,” the drug gives its users heightened consciousness and an extended lifespan at the cost of crippling addiction and fatal withdrawal. Spice, use of which makes interstellar travel possible, is found only on the desert planet of Arrakis — aka “Dune” — and as such is the most valuable commodity in the galaxy.