Somewhere, deep in the Arrakeen deserts, a thumper begins it's rhythmic beating.
Dune reference spotted.

That movie had an interesting premise, and a great video game series developed around it, but much like the book, was a little bit too long for me to make it all the way through it. I do remember that Sting was in it.
The whole story was spanning six books, plus the encyclopedia.
However, the thickest one was the first, original "dune" novel.
I read through them all, but "dune" was the one i could barely stop reading, i also watched the movie beforehand.
epic.