[doc_gunthrop]

It suffers partially from contrived exposition. It seems whenever a Dune film is made, the filmmakers tend to try to include as much of the lore as tolerably possible. They could've just started off the first film with Paul entering a room to encounter Gaius Helen Mohiam and the audience being introduced to the box.

[queuebert]

That's too early -- we'd have no reason to care about him by then. But that would work as the second scene potentially.