What's wrong with the actor's in the movie/mini-series?
Ok Kyle Maclachan and Alec Newman both looked a bit too old to portray Paul, the BG looked well freaky with their male-pattern baldness... though I liked the direction they took in the mini-series with the actor that played Stilgar. Kind of the opposite of the guy in Lynch's version.
so your saying ff sorta stole dunes characters. then again so did star wars.
I'm not sure he's really saying that Nuke...but yeah some parallels can be drawn between Star Wars and Dune.
Like...
Luke = Paul
Leia = Alia or maybe Chani but the note that the spelling of 'Alia' just looks and sounds a bit like 'Leia'
Obi-Wan/Yoda = Gurney/Stilgar
Han = Duncan?
Emperor Palpatine = Shaddam IV?
Jabba = Leto II (God-Emperor)
Force = Wierding Way/prana-bindu...whatever it's called
Tatooine = Arrakis/Dune
Asteroid worm thing in TESB = sandworm/Shai Hulud
Also something about spice is involved in the Kessel Run, I think...
But hey all stories in whatever media they're made borrow from other stories to a greater or lesser degree.