Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson to star within the HBO Max sequence

Whereas followers of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune lengthy for particulars about Dune: Half Two, there’s motion beneath the sand for Dune: The Sisterhood, a by-product sequence destined for HBO Max. Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love, Pink Dragon) and Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Hearth, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) will star within the sequence, based mostly on Frank Herbert’s basic novel.

Watson performs Valya Harkonnen, with Henderson starring as Tula Harkonnen, often known as the Harkonnen Sisters. Collectively, these girls have risen to energy within the Sisterhood, a secret group of girls who will ascend to turn out to be the Bene Gesserit.

Final July, Diane Ademu-John (The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Originals,  The Vampire Diaries) was employed because the showrunner on Dune: The Sisterhood. Ademu-John can also be writing and government producing the present. The story is “instructed by the eyes of a mysterious order of girls generally known as the Bene Gesserit. Given extraordinary talents by their mastery of the physique and the thoughts, the Bene Gesserit expertly weaves by the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium, pursuing plans of their very own that can finally cause them to the mysterious planet Arrakis, identified to its inhabitants as Dune.”

Dune: The Sisterhood takes place 10,000 years earlier than the occasions of Dune and follows the Harkonnen Sisters as they fight forces that threaten the way forward for humankind and set up the fabled sect generally known as the Bene Gesserit.

Initially, Villeneuve was going to direct the pilot episode. Nevertheless, he’s busy placing Dune: Half Two collectively and isn’t capable of spare the time. Nonetheless, he stays an government producer on board Dune: The Sisterhood. Dune: The brand new Dune sequence is an HBO Max and Legendary Tv co-production. The present can also be being government produced by Scott Z. Burns, Mark Friedman, Matthew King, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, Kim Herbert, and Jon Spaihts, who has written the Dune movies with Villeneuve and was purported to be the Sisterhood showrunner at one time. Kevin J. Anderson co-produces.