There's going to be a Dune prequel, set 10,000 years before the events of Paul Atreides. I think that this is a strange decision. I read the original Dune book when I was a teenager, and I could never imagine that Dune would have a moment where it went mainstream. Called Dune Prophecy, this series by Max seems to want to explore the events unfolding with one of the Great Houses (Harkonnen) and the Bene Gesserit. If I remember correctly from my "Dune lore," this will put the timeline right after the butlerian jihad and the beginning of the spacing guild. Spice was only a recreational drug, and there were no Navigators and faster than light ships ruled the universe.
One thing that Dune does have going for it is that its lore is very rich. After the sisterhood, it might be fun to see the Mentats, the Spacing Guild, the Ixians, and the Tleilaxu...maybe all of the ones I mentioned given their own seasons. Or I might be reading this thing completely wrong, and it could be just a tightly told tale that spans three or four seasons before telling some other story.
Anyway, I'm going to link the trailer below. Any of you Dune fans out there care to weigh in? It's certainly going to be worth watching when it arrives later this year.
I'm not sure it's going to be any more mainstream than LOTR was after the first batch of Jackson movies that made a bunch of money. I suppose if streaming had been around in the early 2000s they might have made Rings of Power back then but I'm not sure it would have done much better.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people go watch the spectacle in the theater (especially when there was almost no competition like Dune 2) but probably aren't that invested in the mythology. We will see.
I always wanted to get into Dune, but I never quite did. I still haven't seen any of the movies (recent or from before).
ReplyDeleteNever a big Dune fan but I do intend to check out this series.
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