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No./ 1 Spice, sandworms and game-changing sci-fi

SOME BOOKS STICK with you. That’s how it was for Denis Villeneuve, director of and , when he read Frank Herbert’s . The young Quebecois read the novel — devoured it, really — when he was “maybe 13 or 14” and was instantly captivated by its epic scope, intricately.”

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