While we don’t know where that exact border lies, Dune writer Eric Roth has revealed that at the very least, this film does cover the first half rather nicely.
Of course, with the door-stopping length of that first book, there has always been a plan to split the story in two, with the idea being that a sequel would adapt the rest.
It’s only been a couple of months since Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune dropped its first, mind-blowing trailer, but fans are still ready to watch Timothee Chalamet launch into the modern adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi odyssey.