See also: geez, why does everyone who makes a movie of 'Dune' totally ruin it?

Funnily enough, I recall that HR Giger was originally hired for the visual design of a movie of Dune - which eventually got made without his imagery.

I wondered if the problem with the movie of 'Dune' that I saw (the extended director's cut of the Lynch version) was that it was too close to the novel?