Dune Sequels Explained

What happens in the sequels to Dune? A quick summary of all six Dune books by Frank Herbert: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune.

Imagery from Dune (2021), Children of Dune (2003), Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
Tleilaxu art by Dev Pramanik in Dune: House Atreides graphic novel

Special thanks to Patrons Cameron Weiss, Michael Appell, Ryan Steele, Harry, Shane Veglia, NotGac, Tim Cunniff, T. Ledoux, Ilhuilkamina Urdiana.

0:00 Dune
1:37 Dune Messiah
3:24 Children of Dune
5:18 God Emperor of Dune
7:06 Heretics of Dune
8:23 Chapterhouse: Dune

#Dune

[undergroundartist]

Duncan Idaho being practically immortal and gaining sex powers was definitely not what I expected for the future of this series

[VShifen]

The lesson: If you don't know what to write, Just resurect Duncan Idaho for the 47th time

[gordonmacdowell]

Jason Momoa when his lawyer shows him the fine print in his contract: "I signed up for what!? OK. I guess I can do some flashback scenes. That's cool. I'm going to do what?!"

[rare]

When I was a kid my mum would often tell my young brother ‘you just don’t know when to stop’. I think Frank needed someone to tell him that.

[Hermaniac]

It is my personal belief that Frank Herbert, in his youth, fell deeply in love with a man from Idaho named Duncan, and he never got over it.

[PorkotylerClips]

Frank Herbert’s relentless obsession with Duncan Idaho is the most bizarre part of Dune’s lore and that’s not an easy feat

[OvertheHedge]

I can see why Villeneuve only wants to do the first two books and leave

[ZsaZsaUmbra]

When your friend starts telling you about their dream

[sacyrus]

The fact that Duncan Idaho is pretty much the only person to be a main character in all of the original 6 Dune books is hilarious

[ZOCCOK]

Something happens
Dune: Guess I'll resurrect Duncan Idaho

[cromtuiseagain]

Book 4 sounds like a good place to stop since the Atreides arc finally ends with Leto II and humanity breaks out of its vicious cycle via the Scattering. Books 5 and 6 just sound like tying up loose ends involving the Bene Gesserit

[Intrusionstm]

As much as I don’t want there to be more than three films, it would be really funny to see a wormy Leto resurrect Duncan Idaho countless times while the soundtrack chants along

[fallenhobbit]

OK. So the key point we learned here is that if the new Dune movies become a franchise, Jason Momoa is gonna be in all of them. Sick!!

[alejandroleguizamo]

Herbert seems to have used lots of “spice” while writing these books.

[JoshSweetvale]

What I like is that Duncan Idaho eventually always remembers his first life, but not all of his clone lives. I mean, how can he? He's cloned stock.
And then in the final book... all his past lives flow back to him, giving him effectively infinite skill in all fields.

[victorpleitez]

A new dune book is written:

Duncan Idaho: oh god not again 😩

[poochyenajones]

So, the moral of the story is:
_Duncan: "Ah shit, here we go again..."_

[felipecorpuz]

Now I see why the movies would stop at Messiah

[komplex]

Man, it's going to be so interesting to see what Dennis does with Dune Messiah.

[chrisfraser]

I would never have believed that anyone could have summarized all the Dune books in just 12 minutes. Well done, well done!