Dune 2: how the movie broke from the book? (video)
In this video chit-chat between the Morgster from Ooop North and ‘Big Mac’ MacIntyre, the various differences and deviations between the recent Dune 2 movie and the book’s plot come under the microscope.
Basically, the events of many years in the novel are squeezed into the two films in a way that makes it seem the fall and rise of House Atreides took place over a couple of weeks on Arrakis (rather than over many years).