Dune: Prophecy's Haunting First Trailer Plays God With the Universe
It was only just recently that we started hearing about Warner Bros.’ plans for Dune: Prophecy, the mysterious streaming series prequel inspired by the events of Sisterhood of Dune, again. But out of nowhere, we’ve just got a thunderous first look at its take on Dune’s world.
Today HBO lifted the lid on Dune: Prophecy, which is set about 10,000 years before the events of the primary Dune novels (and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptations of those books), following two sisters of House Harkonnen, Valya and Tula—played by Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson, respectively—and as they find themselves fighting the future by establishing the mysterious sect that will go on to shape the fate of the galaxy for generations to come: the Bene Gesserit.
It’s been a long road for the series, which was originally titled Dune: Sisterhood and first announced in 2019, and went through a litany of cast and director changes on the road to becoming Prophecy. Now, it’ll be the thing that keeps us going while we wait for any scrap of news about Dune Messiah.
The six-episode miniseries begins streaming on Max this fall.
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