I'm just getting through Heretics of Dune. Between watching both miniseries and the movies and reading the first 4 books, I'd say the Lynch movie certainly had better production values and actors in many cases. But it wasted many of its actors cast in rather short roles, and I just really hated the thing with those stupid weirding modules. I actually like the miniseries better despite the much lower budget, because they didn't do something stupid like, "this is a sci-fi film so we better have energy weapons" thing they did with the movie, and ignore the concept that they were mostly fighting with knives.
It's rumoured they might try to make another miniseries based on God Emperor of Dune, but after reading that novel I'd say its a pretty hard thing when you have a lot of scenes with a guy who has a wormlike body that's 7 meters long, and almost resembles Jaba the Hutt spent talking about a lot of things like his philosophical views while getting constantly lost in his own memories and visions. But somehow I suspect that if they did they'll just try to expand out and add to the scenes with Siona, Duncan and Hwi Noree (and even Malky) like they did in the first 2 miniseries with Irulan and Wensica.
One thing about the RTS games I don't get was why the whole thing with the Ordos, I don't even remember them being mentioned anywhere in the novels. It gives the wrong impression on who the major powers in the Dune universe are (some of them appearing later), which happens to be the Imperium, the Houses (Atreides, Harkonnen, Corrino), Lansraad Council, CHOAM, the Guild, Fremen, Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilaxu, IX, Fishspeakers, Honored Matres, and others.
