Miniseries Updates

[Mahdi]

Out of all the reviews of Dune I've read, heard, and seen it seems that only one thing about it was universly liked, and that was Chani. From the look of it she now has a huge fan club, most of it male. If you want to learn more about Barbara Kodetova, her actress, the miniseries site has profiled her in Bios. They also profiled Ernest Farino, the Dune Visual Effects Supervisor & Second Unit Director and that is found in Bios. Finally they interviewed Julie Cox, who plays Irulan, one of the most vilified characters of the miniseries and that can be found in Features. Here she explains how her Irulan compares to the one in the novels:

How does your Princess Irulan compare to the one in the novel?

In the book, she's the narrator. She actually only comes into the story physically, as such, right at the end. She marries Paul at the end and that's really the only time you see her. She's chosen to marry Paul because she's the eldest. What (writer-director) John Harrison has done is develop a character pretty much inspired by the records. She is listed in the history of Arrakis. Chapters of the book are punctuated with information about her. John has also taken the dialogue of another character in the book