"Zendaya as Chani in Dune.

Book Chani is a ride or die for Paul, killing members of the sietch who’d think to challenge Paul so that she could prove “you can’t handle him, you can’t even handle his woman”. She was an intelligent person who trusted Paul completely, and that is a direct conflict with how the movie Chani is presented. I understand that the format of a book allows for the reader to potentially pause and do some introspection and the movie might have felt like they needed to prompt it more, but I feel like her character in the movie was more of a petulant/toxic teenager than the character that was written in the books."