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Dune spinoff series shuts down, loses its director and star
Dune: The Sisterhood is facing a lot of bumps on its road to TV screens. HBO Max’s spinoff prequel series — originally designed by Dune movie director Denis Villeneuve as a prequel to his 2021 film — is on production hiatus, according to a Deadline report. Villeneuve announced the series in 2019, at which point he was planning to direct the pilot, but he departed the series in 2022 to focus on shooting the second half of his Dune movie project. He was replaced by Chernobyl’s Johan Renck. Now Renck has also left the project, along with Shirley Henderson, a prolific actor particularly known in fandom as Moaning Myrtle from the Harry Potter movies and the wee Anzellan mechanic Babu Frik in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. (She was terrific in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, too.)