Dune HBO Max Spinoff Show Update Given By Movie's Screenwriter
Dune movie writer Jon Spaihts offers a status update on HBO Max’s planned prequel series focused on the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. The 2021 arrival of Denis Villeneuve’s epic take on Frank Herbert’s iconic science-fiction novel not only brought joy to Dune fans the world over, it also ushered in a whole new unexpected era of Dune-related content.
The biggest news of course is that Villeneuve gets to complete his sprawling two-part Dune movie as Warner Bros. has officially put Dune 2 into production with 2023 targeted as a release date. Two Dune movies might not be enough for Villeneuve however as he’s been mulling making it a trilogy by also adapting Herbert’s sequel book Dune Messiah. And then there’s the all-important streaming side of things, where HBO Max has been reported to be developing Dune: The Sisterhood, a prequel series focused on Lady Jessica’s mysterious and ancient blood-line-manipulating all-female order.
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Obviously a lot of projects like these go into development at a lot of places and never actually make it to the finish line. But in the case of Dune: The Sisterhood at least it seems things are still going forward for the time being. Speaking to The Playlist about all things Dune, screenwriter Spaihts offered an update on HBO Max’s prequel show that should come as good news to fans of Herbert’s far-future universe:
Oh, that is carrying on and I’m not allowed to talk about it very much. But that effort is alive and well. I ended up getting moved off of it to work, not just on “Dune: Part Two,” but to investigate other cinematic prospects in the “Dune” universe, which we are still talking about and which, again, I’m not allowed to say very much about.
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