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CHILDREN OF DUNE

By | March 2003

PREMIERES ON SCI-FI CHANNEL TONIGHT! Anyone who has ever read Frank Herbert’s “Dune” series will tell you that these novels are virtually impossible to faithfully translate to the screen. Prepare for steamy love scenes that take sex and skin to the limit, jaw-dropping effects that blow away recent big screen sci-fi, along with respectable cameos from Susan Sarandon and Alice Krige. Ultimately, “Children of Dune” is a worthy adaptation that will satisfy purists…

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