Thanks to supplies left by Yueh, Paul and Lady Jessica escape into the desert and find refuge with the Fremen. Leto bites down on the tooth in the Baron's presence, but the gas misses the Baron and only kills the Baron's twisted Mentat, Piter De Vries.

Assuming his wife is already dead and seeking revenge against Harkonnen, Yueh provides Leto with a false tooth filled with poison gas. Coerced by the Baron to save his wife from torture, Yueh disables the shields of the Atreides fortress and delivers a drugged Leto to the Baron.

The Baron Harkonnen launches an attack, his forces secretly bolstered by Shaddam's fierce Sardaukar warriors and aided by Leto's own trusted Suk doctor, Wellington Yueh. With the help of his Ginaz Swordmaster Duncan Idaho, Leto reaches out to Arrakis' native Fremen, people tempered by the planet's harsh conditions who Leto realizes are an underestimated and untapped resource, a potential 'desert power'. Leto moves his entire household from his ocean homeworld Caladan to the desolate Arrakis, including his Bene Gesserit concubine Lady Jessica, his son and heir Paul, his Weapons Master Gurney Halleck, and his Mentat Thufir Hawat. Leto suspects treachery on the part of Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, but cannot refuse the assignment. Arrakis-an inhospitable desert planet plagued by giant sandworms-is the only known source of melange, the valuable drug at the center of the galactic empire's economy. Rising in influence among the Landsraad assembly of noble families, Duke Leto Atreides is given control of the lucrative planetary fief of Arrakis, which has previously been managed by House Atreides' longtime enemies, the Harkonnens. Oscar Isaac portrays Leto in the 2021 film Dune.Įmmet Asher-Perrin of Tor.com writes that Hurt 'brings a certain reserved calm that works for the character.' Dune captured Herbert's prophetic reflection of our own age, where nation-states are competing with the new global economy and its corporate elements.' Leto is portrayed by Oscar Isaac in the 2021 Denis Villeneuve film Dune.

A fan of the novel, he told The New York Times, 'I was a science fiction junkie. Hurt was the first actor to be cast in the 2000 adaptation. Leto is portrayed by Jürgen Prochnow in David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, and by William Hurt in the 2000 Dune miniseries. According to Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son and biographer, House Atreides was based on the heroic but ill-fated Greek mythological House Atreus. He is introduced in Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, and is later a primary character in the prequel trilogies Prelude to Dune (1999–2001) and the Caladan Trilogy (2020–2022) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Leto I Atreides ( / ˈ l eɪ t oʊ ə ˈ t r eɪ ɪ d iː z/) is the Duke of House Atreides, and father to Paul Atreides.

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