Dune

Director: Pierre Morel

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Release date: 2011

Synopsis:

A sweeping, futuristic tale set on the remote desert planet Arrakis, which produces the interstellar empire's sole source of the spice Melange -- used for distant space travel. An empirewide power struggle ensues over the control of the spice.

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