So, apparently, they are making the Fremen mostly black. Okay. Except I don't think they thought that through. Because the Fremen are not so much characters as they are hordes of fanatical warriors who run out of control and kill tons of people between books, so that their leader, the guy who tried at all costs to keep that from happening, claims the deaths at his hands make Hitler etc look insignificant. Black peoples.

Oh, except they are not ALL black people. Chani, the love interest character, is played by the, let's face it, white girl with curly hair, from the MCU Spider Man movies. Chani's father, Dr. Keynes, the administrator who is secretly on the side of the Fremen, is played by a very black woman. So presumably there is a light-skinned Fremen man who hooked up with her. And Stilgar, the main Fremen character, is played by Javier Bardem. They can't even commit hard enough to the race thing to make the two most important Fremen characters anything but very light-skinned people.

Also, that means that Paul is going to prove his Fremen chops by butchering a black guy in a massively mismatched fight (or they're going to make the fight really even, in which case, why is anyone following Paul on a jihad, if he's just a kid with no particular skills? ), to prove how awesome he is despite his foreign and soft background. And then he's going to inherit that guy's wife as a slave. Harah & Jamis are played by Gloria Obianyo & Babs Olusanmokun, who are as black as the names would lead you to think.

So they've cast a black guy as the hot-tempered thug who picks a fight with a scrawny white kid (Timothee Chalamet, whom I do not imagine has became a more credible hand-to-hand combatant than the awful "The King" ) out of racism and gets butchered for it, and a black woman as his widow who becomes the property of that kid, and whose most memorable scene has her pleading with said kid to retain her sexual services instead of just using her as a domestic servant, repeatedly shouting "I'm still young!" He gets to keep their kids, too, and they are glimpsed acting as his bodyguards.

Now to be fair, Harah's highlight scene is when she sticks up for Alia and is helpful overcoming people's prejudices against her, but they haven't case Alia, according to IMDb. So who knows if we'll get that. I mean, I would have thought Alia a more critical character than Jamis or Harah, but that's now they're doing it. They don't a few characters from the end of the book, so it's probably a two parter.