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Most of you remember Dune as that great/sucky cheesefest that inexplicably came from David Lynch in the 1980s but luckily, if indirectly, led to Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan's teaming on the classic TV series Twin Peaks.

Oh, and there was also that Sci Fi Channel watchyacallit a few years back.

The implication here is that not nearly as many genre fans have read Frank Herbert's Dune novels as should be the case.

And with director Peter Berg now working up a new feature film version of the tale, there's even less reason to go back to the original source material, alas.

"I think I had a much more different experience, I think, with the book than David Lynch did," Berg recently told Sci Fi Wire. "To me, I think my interpretation will feel significantly different from that and the [Syfy] Channel miniseries that aired. I have a different experience than both of those filmmakers did."

Berg is looking at the story as more of an "epic adventure," apparently. And, some might say, surprisingly.

"[The book] was much more muscular and adventurous, more violent and possibly even a little bit more fun," Berg said. "I think those are all elements of my experience of the book that can be brought in without offending the die-hard fans of Bene Gesserit and Kwisatz Haderach. There's a more dynamic film to be made."

In case you were wondering who Bene Gesserit is, she's the Brazilian supermodel who Sting used to date.