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Dune: Prophecy: first trailer for female-led prequel TV series | US television
The primary trailer for the much-anticipated TV prequel to the latest Dune motion pictures guarantees a female-fronted have a look at life 10,000 years earlier than.
Dune: Prophecy will observe the roots of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood led by the Harkonnen siblings, performed by Emily Watson and Olivia Williams. Later members of the sect are performed by Rebecca Ferguson and Charlotte Rampling on the large display screen.
It’s impressed by the novel Sisterhood of Dune, written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert, the elder son of Frank Herbert, who wrote the unique Dune novels.
It comes on the heels of the second movie in Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed Dune franchise which has made greater than $710m globally since its launch earlier this yr. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw known as it “an epic sci-fi hallucination”.
“The Bene Gesserit have all the time been fascinating to me,” Villeneuve has stated of the present. “Focusing a sequence round that highly effective order of girls appeared not solely related and galvanizing however a dynamic setting for the tv sequence.”
Initially developed again in 2019, the present went via varied iterations, together with different names, and that includes totally different writers and actors, earlier than turning into Dune: Prophecy, set to premiere later this yr on Max. The forged additionally consists of Mark Sturdy, Jodhi Might and Jessica Barden.
Villeneuve was initially set to direct the pilot however later dropped out. The sequence now counts Anna Foerster as one of many key administrators. Her credit embrace episodes of Outlander and the motion sequel Underworld: Blood Wars.
After the success of the second Dune movie this yr, it was revealed {that a} third movie was formally in improvement. Villeneuve has revealed that he desires to make one thing else earlier than, which can be an adaptation of Annie Jacobsen’s ticking-clock thriller Nuclear Conflict: A State of affairs.
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