According to Variety, Peter Berg will helm a film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune for Paramount Pictures. After spending the past year obtaining the book’s rights from the Herbert estate, Kevin Misher will produce the picture. “Herbert’s 1965 novel is a sweeping, futuristic tale set on the remote desert planet Arrakis, which produces the interstellar empire’s sole source of the spice Melange - used for distant space travel. An empirewide power struggle ensues over the control of the spice.”