In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Dune—the only place where the time-travel substance 'Spice' can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it's only so he can stage a coup with some unsavory characters.
This movie contains 45 potentially triggering events.
Navigators constantly mainline 'Spice' to acheive psychic abilities. This 'spice' also gets normal people good and wasted so it's taken recreationally.
Mentats drink a potion called "sapho juice" that accelerates their minds, allowing them to act as human supercomputers.
2 captors talk about taking turns with Jessica when her and Paul are tied up. One captor pulls up her skirt before being stopped by Paul using his voice power for the first time.
Also stings character taunts Paul during their fight by telling him he will give special attention to his mom after he kills him.
The emperor kills Rabban for his cruelty towards Arrakis and decapitates him. Rabban's head is placed on the floor in front of emperor's throne to intimidate the Baron.
The Bene Gesserit test of Self-Control involves placing the hand in a nerve-stimulation chamber that makes it feel as if it's being burnt off, and expecting the initiate to keep it there for a whole minute. While it shows a video of such a thing happening, it only causes intense pain.
Baron Atreides is assassinated by an antigravity drone carrying a srynge of cyanide. Baron Harkonen is almost killed by a poison needle implanted in one of his slave boy's legs.
Harkonnen embodies homophobic tropes including the "predatory/pedophile gay" trope and is based on demonizations of HIV/AIDS victims during the 1980s, with prominent sores on his face and open lust for young men/teenage boys, especially his nephew. He also falls into fatphobic and ableist tropes. Orientalism and white savior narrative; white Paul is worshiped by a desert-dwelling Muslim tribe that's portrayed as "backwards." Whitewashing.