The Dune miniseries is a sci-fi spectacle that takes ... a young James McAvoy playing Paul's son Leto II, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune dives deeper into the saga's spicy politics, cosmic ...

Neither was it in the 2003 sequel to the miniseries The Children of Dune which compressed two books — Messiah and Children — into a three-part miniseries. Nor was it written in the book.