{"id":116221,"date":"2020-10-16T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T08:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=116221"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T08:58:47","slug":"children-of-dune-take-home-frank-herberts-miniseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/children-of-dune-take-home-frank-herberts-miniseries\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Of Dune: Take home Frank Herbert&#8217;s miniseries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First released back in 2003, Frank Herbert&#8217;s three-part sci-fi miniseries,<b><\/b><i><b> Children Of Dune <\/b><\/i>will soon be available to take home on DVD and Blu-ray!<\/p>\n<p>Adapted for the screen by John Harrison (<em><strong>Tales From The Darkside<\/strong><\/em>) and directed by\u00a0Greg Yaitanes, the series is based on\u00a0the Frank Herbert novels <em><strong>Dune Messiah<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Children Of Dune<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2774yeIFV8\" width=\"375\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><strong>Children Of Dune<\/strong><\/em> follows a young man\u2019s rise to universal power on an embattled desert planet. It\u2019s been 12 years since Paul Atreides\u2019s (Alec Newman) desert-dwelling Jihad spread out across the universe to exterminate all that remained of the Old Imperial armies. As Atreides\u2019 secret enemies grow in number, his only chance to protect the family\u2019s supreme reign is in his new twins. Soon, the hope for planet Dune will be in the hands of his young son Leto II (James McAvoy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/x-men-dark-phoenix-film-review-wheres-the-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>X-Men: Dark Phoenix<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), heir to a power unimaginable\u2026<\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u><\/u>The series also stars Susan Sarandon (<em><strong>Thelma &amp; Louise<\/strong><\/em>) as Princess Wensicia, Julie Cox (<em><strong>The Oxford Murders<\/strong><\/em>) and Ian McNeice (<em><strong>Doc Martin<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Signature Entertainment presents\u00a0Children of Dune on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B08HK7N7Y2\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B08HK7N7Y2&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=scifinow01-21&amp;linkId=ec5b48447b8ea839a63bcd6c51bc8b59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blu-ray<\/a> and DVD on 16 November.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James McAvoy-starring miniseries will be available on DVD and Blu-ray in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":116225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1,2617],"tags":[6988],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Children-Of-Dune.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}