In the novel the information that there is gas rising underneath him is all delivered through Kynes’ thoughts, and especially since Villeneuve stayed away from voiceover dialogue for characters’ thoughts, it would have been a strange death on film. Given Kynes’ religious reverence for the sandworm earlier in the movie, I thought it was a brilliantly fitting death and foreshadows the advantage the fremen have over the harkonnens in knowing the desert well.
Yeah it was handeled fairly well given “how to adapt it?”
I liked that in the 2021 version she took out the maker hooks trying to escape but I think she was swallowed by a worm with the attackers not by a spice blow /explosion Which made sense because she planted the thumper.