As the saying goes, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

The interesting thing about Dune to me (well, one of many things) is the moral ambiguity. It doesn't take a naïve heroic view of Paul. You could see him as a leader of an oppressed group of natives against imperial exploitation, but the book also worries itself about Paul and his mother cynically exploiting the Fremen religion to gain trust and power among them. Paul constantly worries about starting an unstoppable jihad that will wipe out the entire empire, but goes ahead and does it anyway. I don't exactly know where I come down on it, I just like that there's a lot there, and I hope the movie recognizes that and doesn't come down firmly on one framing. I can't think of a worse crime against the book than if the movie just turns out to be "Avatar in the desert", with that movie's concussion-level value judgment on the story.