Chernobyl director will helm Dune prequel series about the Bene Gesserit
By Dan Selcke
Back in 2019, two years before Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movie would actually make it to screens, HBO Max ordered a spinoff series about the Bene Gesserit, the shadowing cabal of women who hold sway over powerful in the Dune universe. It was to be called Dune: The Sisterhood, and we’ve basically heard nothing about it since it was announced.
Until now. Variety reports that Johan Renck will direct the first two episodes of the show. In addition to directing episodes of series like Breaking Bad, Vikings and The Walking Dead, Renck won a couple of Emmys for his work on the HBO drama Chernobyl, so I think it’s safe to say that the Dune show is in good hands.
At one point, Villeneuve was planning to direct the pilot for Dune: The Sisterhood himself, but he’s now too busy working on Dune: Part 2, which is a good enough excuse for us.
Dune: The Sisterhood is set 10,000 years before Dune
Variety also shared some details about the spinoff. We knew it was about the Gene Gesserit, but this is the first I’m hearing about the series following “the Harkonnen Sisters” who set up the all-female order some 10,000 years before the story proper.
The lore of Dune and dense, with plenty of fodder for spinoffs and prequels if Warner Bros. Discovery wants to explore them. In the meantime, Dune Part 2 is due out in theaters on October 20, 2023. We don’t have a release date for Dune: The Sisterhood yet.
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