Dune: Part One

Can you skip Dune: Part One?

No. It carries part of the main Dune throughline, and what comes after it assumes you have seen it. See the full Dune order.

Dune guides

• Dune orderThree separate adaptations of the same books, plus a prequel series set ten millennia before Paul Atreides was born.
• Before Dune Part ThreeTwo films are required. Everything else with Dune on it is optional, and one part of it is ten thousand years away.

Where it sits in the Dune order

Release order

#1 of 7

Chronological order

#2 of 7

Released

22 October 2021

In-universe era

The Villeneuve Films

More from The Villeneuve Trilogy

• 02Dune: Part Two2024 · Essential
• 03Dune: Part Three2026 · Essential

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