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Dune: Prophecy the end Its first season with an epic, 80 minute episodes It has no fixed storyline, with its central mystery about who or what is using the forbidden technology to create it Bioweapons on Arrakis. So it’s good that the HBO series, a prequel set 10,000 years before the Denis Villeneuve film, will return to the future.
At a press conference during the season one finale, “High-Handed Enemy,” Dune: ProphecyIts showrunner and executive producer Alison Schapker, along with stars Emily Watson (Valia Harkonen) and Olivia Williams (Tula Harkonen), have mostly talked about the first season—but teased a bit about what’s to come.
Given how the series paced itself over the course of six episodes, considering its scope and number of characters, Schapker said the team stuck to one guiding rule: “Each episode has to have its own identity.”
But at the same time, he added, “it was important to feel that things changed and that the characters went through things that moved the story forward. And it was always very important to understand Valya’s line and Desmond’s story and Tula’s story. I would say they were our main It was a matter of introducing everyone—and it’s a big world. So it was a bit of a balancing act.
About where he wanted to leave things at the end of the first season, Shapker said, “I wanted to feel like the ground really moved from under their feet at the end of the season, but at the same time it would be revealed to us that would help us understand these characters and their dynamics differently. And there will be a kind of re-contextualization of the story. So that when you watch the whole story, you realize, ‘Oh, there was more going on than I first realized,’ which I think is in line with the way Sisterhood works. – in the sense that there is a plan within the plan, that there is more to the story than you first see. By the end of the first season, I think you have a real knowledge of its history [the Harkonnen] Sisters, the history of sisterhood, and then a real revelation, a truth coming out. And that was important to me, that fundamental change in dynamics.”
When asked about their characters’ state of mind at the end of the first season, both Watson and Williams were reflective.
“I remember everything [has changed between them]”Watson said. “But I think Valya still holds [her idea that] ‘I am the chosen one. I have a destiny.’ [That’s still] Guide her through this. But I will be very interested to know what happens next.”
Williams added, “I think the big thing for Tula is when this is the moment [she says] ‘Please don’t kill my son. Trust me, I got it.’ And that’s true [Valya] Trust me and [leaves her with Desmond]A little later I know that my son has arrested me-[it’s] The moment between the sisters where Libra is finally given something, after all these years she’s known she’s highly capable and highly effective and has been treated as the younger sister. Sometimes people of that character like to stay in the shadows and it will be interesting to see what happens when he is pushed to the fore and if he can handle it.
Shapker built on that. “I like the idea of what you’re saying: in some ways sisters exchange [places] It means Valya retreats into the shadows, and Tula suddenly comes forward in the capital, and what it’s going to mean for them to move forward,” he said. “But I also think that any secret that comes out, the longer you keep it, needs to metabolize the pain around it … it makes you rethink your relationship over the years, how did I miss something?”
Watson added, “I think it’s a humiliating moment because everything [my character has] Based on my leadership, my sense of truth. But in a way, Valya does not insult. It’s ‘I’m not going to get emotional and I’m fearless, so I’m going to keep going'””
After the first season asked perhaps the biggest question—who was behind Desmond’s transformation?—Shapker was vague about any potential season two spoilers. “[If you] Looking back to the first season, there are clues to Desmond’s identity and his powers and where all of that comes from,” he said. “As far as sort of shady figures [seen controlling his fate in his visions]I think that remains to be seen in the future. But, we try to seed it into—I don’t know if people notice, but the first time we see the cloth that he’s carrying, when Desmond Hart shows up and salutes and walks into the palace, he’s got this black cloth. It really is his mother’s token, and [it reappears] through the entire series. He uses it as a personal moment [way to keep] His drive and his connections sort of come alive. He finally meets her and grabs her real clothes, and realizes that she once had a piece of the baby blanket she used to hug him. [is[ Sisterhood cloth that he’s held on to. And now he’s finally with his mother. I mean, we tried to do things like that to kind of build in and foreshadow where the story was going.”
Ok, but what about the second biggest question: what’s going to happen now that Valya Harkonnen, Keiran Atreides, and Princess Ynez are on Arrakis? Here’s Schapker with, as expected, some hints but not many details.
“After a season of Arrakis kind of exerting its pull from afar—whether that’s in the economics of the spice trade, or the psychological aspects of the visions and nightmares that are sort of imagery of Arrakis and Desmond’s path seeping into everyone’s consciousness—[it was our chance] This is incredibly over-the-top and almost mythically boots-on-the-ground the hill Spaces that we know very well but we’ve kept some distance from throughout the season. I think it’s very significant that Valya is back there, and he’s back to Desmond’s original point, where he emerges with a story and a myth: ‘I came from Arrakis and a worm devoured me and I survived after me. The whole regiment was killed.’ What I will say is that I think Valia is going to find out a lot more as she emerges as the antagonist to Desmond, and it will be interesting to see what she finds out there.
Indeed it will! you can see Dune: Prophecy first season on HBO and Max; A second season is coming but doesn’t have a release date yet.
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