In a shock to utterly nobody who has been immersed within the child-burning, eugenics-pushing, mind-bending chaos of Dune: Prophecy, we’re returning to this universe from 10,000 years earlier than Denis Villeneuve’s Dune motion pictures. HBO introduced at present that the prequel sequence might be renewed for a second season after the primary season skilled large success.
From the second we landed in Home Corrino with its Dune-esque futurism and medieval-style backstabbing, Dune: Prophecy supplied a type of historic contextualization of the Dune universe we have been accustomed to, one many didn’t wish to go away. In accordance with HBO’s press launch saying the renewal, the favored present’s sequence premiere episode amassed a Shai Hulud-sized 15 million viewers, 13 million extra viewers than Warner Bros. Discovery acknowledged the episode had amassed after a day of being launched, as reported by Deadline. Feels like individuals didn’t wish to miss out on all of the dystopian enjoyable.
In a press convention earlier at present, present runner Alison Schapker expressed her pleasure for the second season, and for Dune: Prophecy to “proceed constructing out our nook of the Dune universe.” Though the present is loosely based mostly on the prequel novel Sisterhood of Dune, Schaller needed to increase the world whereas nonetheless being in shut collaboration with Brian Herbert and the property of unique Dune creator Frank Herbert. Talking with Enterprise Insider, she defined how Sisterhood of Dune centered totally on the time interval wherein a younger Valya Harkonnen comes into management of the sisterhood, whereas she needed to indicate the ripple impact of her selections in shaping the Sisterhood into the Bene Gesserit.
“We additionally needed to have room to create a wealthy tv sequence, and see an older Valya, performed by Emily Watson, a little bit extra in management — the place she took the sisterhood, after which how she was examined as half of a bigger exploration of the way it went from the Sisterhood to the Bene Gesserit. We needed to take a look at the group over time.”
The season finale of Dune: Prophecy airs this Sunday, and follows a bombshell episode wherein we discover out that Sister Francesca (Tabu), mom of Emperor Javicco Corrino’s son Constantine (Josh Heuston), had been unwittingly reinserted into their lives to make use of her highly effective affect to return the Bene Gesserit to a place of energy inside The Imperium. All that’s left is to see who survives for the second season as soon as the Spice has settled.
