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Wasn't the only one
IIRC, SyFy did their own 2-part miniseries (runs to about 3 or 4 hours). It was much closer to the novel than the Kyle MacLachlan/Sting one.

If you think about it, though, the original one had a very star-studded cast. Max von Sydow, Sting, Kyle MacLachlan, Jurgen Procnow, Patrick Stewart (yes, Captain Picard was in it... & what hair he had was actually worn *long*), Jose Ferrer (perhaps not so well known, but, [cue Troy McClure voice] his son is Miguel Ferrer, of such hits as "Crossing Jordan" and "Hot Shots Part Deux"), & Brad Dourif. And although it veered away from the novel, some of those "adjustments" were kind of cool (i.e. turning sound into energy blasts).

Which reminds me of a long-standing joke about how one of Palladium Book's supplements for their original-edition Robotech role-playing game, "Lancer's Rockers", essentially would allow the player to take the "instrumecha" & turn Lynn-Minmei into another Paul Atreides ("My name has become a killing word")...
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10th Dec