DUNE: PROPHECY Ordered for a Second Season at HBO

HBO‘s Dune: Prophecywill be returning for a second season. The news was announced Thursday during a virtual press conference with showrunner EP Alison Schapker, and stars Emily Watson and Olivia Williams.

Dune: Prophecy follows the formation of the Bene Gesserit, an order of women who become the puppet masters of the great houses of the Empire in Dune.

Watson and Williams play two morally ambiguous sisters running the de facto cult. In the movies, Lady Jessica Atreides, played by Rebecca Ferguson, has ties to the Gesserit. Her spiritual talents fostered with the order have been passed down to her son, Paul Atreides played by Timothee Chalamet.

On the show Travis Fimmel plays Desmond Hart, a rival to the two sisters, who has certain powers. In the finale, there’s bound to be a big reveal in regards to the relationships between the sisters and Desmond.

“How the sisterhood survives is very much a part of season 2,” said Schapker during the presser today.

Dune: Prophecy takes place 10,000 years before the events of the Villeneuve Dune movies, and it’s inspired by the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson penned novel Sisterhood of Dune.

The prequel series to Legendary’s Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune movies will air its Season 1 finale on Sunday.

via: Deadline