24 Movies to Watch if You Liked Dune

This is a recommendation for not only Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope—which is the Galaxy Far, Far, Away equivalent to Dune: Part One—but for the entire franchise, which was heavily influenced by Herbert's 1965 novel from the jump. It's ironic, then, that Star Wars, with 11 feature films, a live-action hit series, and a whole animated universe, eventually became something that the world of Dune had to acknowledge.

"It was a very long process to find this identity in a world with the giant elephant of Star Wars in the room," Villeneuve said. "George Lucas was inspired by Dune when he created Star Wars. Then as we were making a movie about Dune, we had to negotiate the influence of Star Wars. It's full circle."

If you somehow haven't seen Star Wars, well, there's only one place to start.

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