Editing Leto II Atreides (section)

==In adaptations==
[[File:JamesMcAvoyTIFFSept10.jpg|thumb|upright|[[James McAvoy]] portrays Leto II in the [[Frank Herbert's Children of Dune|''Children of Dune'' miniseries]] (2003).]]

Leto is portrayed by [[James McAvoy]] in the 2003 [[miniseries]] ''[[Frank Herbert's Children of Dune]]''.<ref name="NYT Wertheimer">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/arts/television-review-a-stormy-family-on-a-sandy-planet.html |title=TELEVISION REVIEW; A Stormy Family on a Sandy Planet |first=Ron |last=Wertheimer |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 15, 2003 |access-date=January 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="NYT Berger">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/tv/cover-story-where-spice-of-life-is-the-vital-variety.html?|title=COVER STORY: Where Spice of Life Is the Vital Variety |last=Berger |first=Warren |date=March 16, 2003 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 26, 2010}}</ref> Laura Fries of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote, "the mini picks up a great deal of charisma when McAvoy and [[Jessica Brooks|[Jessica] Brooks]] [as Ghanima] come aboard as the next generation of the house of Atreides."<ref name="Variety CoD">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2003/tv/reviews/children-of-dune-1200542893/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821193344/http://variety.com/2003/tv/reviews/children-of-dune-1200542893/ |title=Review: ''Children of Dune'' |first=Laura |last=Fries |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=March 11, 2003 |access-date=August 21, 2015 |archive-date=August 21, 2015}}</ref> The characters Leto and Ghanima were aged from ten-year-olds to teens for the miniseries, which Emmet Asher-Perrin of ''[[Tor.com]]'' called "a smart move here, as finding two ten year old kids who had the ability to behave as though they had millennia of ancestral memory bubbling up inside of them was always going to be an impossibility."<ref name="Tor CoD">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2017/09/19/syfys-children-of-dune-miniseries-delivers-on-emotion-when-philosophy-falls-flat/|title=SyFy's ''Children of Dune'' Miniseries Delivers On Emotion When Philosophy Falls Flat|first=Emmet|last=Asher-Perrin|date=September 19, 2017|website=[[Tor.com]]|access-date=February 20, 2019}}</ref> Asher-Perrin also called McAvoy "easily one of the highlights of the miniseries, and he plays the part with a sort of brooding-yet-impish etherealness. He's really excellent, and his rapport with Jessica Brooks's Ghanima is dazzling.<ref name="Tor CoD"/>

''God Emperor of Dune'' is parodied in the animated television show ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'' in the [[Grim & Evil#Season 2 (2003–04)|2003–04 season]] episode "Mandy, the Merciless", with Mandy as the emperor Leto II, and Billy as Duncan Idaho.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/1529708/cartoon-network-grim-adventures-billy-mandy-parodied-weirdest-dune-book-god-emperor/ |title=That Time a Cartoon Network Show Parodied The Weirdest ''Dune'' Book |first=Rafael |last=Motamayor |date=March 1, 2024 |work=[[/Film]] |access-date=March 4, 2024}}</ref>