Executive Producer Teases Epic Worlds in ‘Dune: Prophecy’
The “Dune” saga, which has already been considerable, is expected to grow even more.
The story will not just be limited to the infinite Spice goodbye filled sand dunes of the planet of Arrakis walked by Paul Atreides a character played by Timothee Chalamet in the recent ‘Dune’ films of Denis Villeneuve, but also in Max’s six-part prequel series collection entitled ‘Dune: Prophecy’ which will come to air on Sunday.
There are “absolutely different places” and time eras where events in “Prophecy” happen, as told by executive producer Alison Schapker in a recent interview to CNN where she stated that the show adds to the ‘Dune’ galaxy in a manner that is comfortable for both the Frank Herbert original and the movies that preceded it.
“Dune is a universe that pulls fans in,” added Schapker, who is a showrunner of several series such as Westworld, Lost and Alias. “It is something that is set in a world that has meaning to people and I think that we wanted to honor that.”
Schapker’s team had ‘total freedom’ when it came to creating these new interstellar locations but they focused on keeping the aesthetic so that the one hour show would somehow ‘fit in the world that Denis beautifully created.’
“Aim” is set 10,000 years before the events depicted in Villeneuve’s two movies about the Dune universe by Frank Herbert which were produced over fifty years after the first volume of several books was published. And tells the story of a sisterhood of women in control of their special mental and physical talents–the Bene Gesserits.
Drawing on the “Schools of Dune” book trilogy penned by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, “Prophecy” depicts the lives of Valya and Tula Harkonnen as they confront the ‘threats to the human race and found the legendary order that will be called the Bene Gesserit’ to quote an official synopsis.
Among the planets depicted in the series in Salusa Secundus, which we see in the films directed by Vileneuve as a planet of imprisonment, differs in the sense that which planet is imperial in nature in ‘Prophecy’.
The series will also feature locations such as Wallach IX, which is the home planet of the institution which Valya (Emily Watson) and Tula (Olivia Williams) administrate, and Lankiveil, an incredibly hostile, frozen planet, which, in this time of the story, the Harkonnens were exiled to.
While there was a desire to create these worlds visually to be as “real and gritty and epic” as possible, it was equally essential to anchor the vast narrative and intricate backstory in the characters of the show for “Dune” neophytes not to find it hard to access the series.
“In terms of the story left in the books and movies this is a lot of what we did,” specified Schapker who firmly believes that the series can be enjoyed with no prior reading of the books or watching films. Nonetheless, there is more of its adult content delivered in this episode both in plot and visual images including the more explicit scenes. Schapker was happy to be able to explore this area of intimacy – and of course without going overboard.
Schapker expressed, “I enjoyed being able to be adult sci-fi.” “It was quite fun in fact to make our characters, even their sexuality, to have human proportions, and the fact that the show can let people go and show the spicy chunks.”
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Spicy figures in this context is in no way historical allusion to the highly desired and often fierce debated element of the history within the Dune.”
This Sunday, viewers will be able to watch the pilot episode of Dune: Prophecy. (Max, HBO, and CNN, as well as other properties, belong to Warner Bros. Discovery.)