Other aspects of the game that drew inspiration from the films include the design ... colossal sandworms. Meet characters from the movies and books as you follow your story across Dune.

Which seems about right to me. Before the events of the Dune books proper the sandworms are a force of nature to be respected and exploited by the Fremen alone. Dune: Awakening is set in an ...

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There's a new cinematic worm in Hollywood. The movie adaptations of Frank Herbert's novel Dune introduced audiences to the Shai-Hulud, massive sandworms native to the desert planet of Arrakis.