"10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides, before the universe knew them as the Bene Gesserit..."

No Villeneuve, but the quality still looks pretty damn impressive...

Dune: Prophecy
Season 1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10466872/
Fall 2024 TBA
Max

I'm in. And somehow the cinematography looks on par with the movies.

Getting HOTD, without the dragons.

Is this based off any of the source material?

10,000 years in the past …… with identical technology and political systems.


Oh and I will definitely watch.

Looks interesting, I hope they do Mile Teg proud with this one. Please just don't make the heroines stoic and masculine(the overdone strong-woman trope of the last decade). The Bene Gesserit Frank's books are great examples on how to write female characters. Stick to the formula.

If it does pull from any books it's the son's books(Brian Herbert). Frank never wrote any of the prequels.

Yikes. Brian Herbert fan fiction.

I'll be sure to bring the excoriating commentary.

Al Bula said:

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Yikes. Brian Herbert fan fiction.

I'll be sure to bring the excoriating commentary.

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Based on everything I've heard about Messiah and beyond, this is actually a good thing.

DrEvazanPhD said:

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hunter2012 said:

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Looks interesting, I hope they do Mile Teg proud with this one. Please just don't make the heroines stoic and masculine(the overdone strong-woman trope of the last decade). The Bene Gesserit Frank's books are great examples on how to write female characters. Stick to the formula.

If it does pull from any books it's the son's books(Brian Herbert). Frank never wrote any of the prequels.

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I think that was 10,000 years after, not before

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Correct I was only saying that because I liked the book character and he was Bene Gesserit. If I recall he's 5000 years after Paul. 3500 years of Leto II + 1500 year Scattering.

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10,000 years in the past …… with identical technology and political systems.

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It's not out of the realm of possibility
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If you ban AI & higher computing, technology will no doubt get to a certain point & then stagnate.
(Honestly at this point if the tech people never made a new Iphone or bigger TV I'd survive )

In terms of political systems, there are only so many ways to govern. Plus it is highly plausible that other systems of governments popped up here & there in the intervening years 10K years between this show & the events of Dune.

I just don't get the hate of Brian Herbert's prequels. No, they do not approach the intellectualness of his dad's stuff, but what could?

I read most of them back in the day and thought they were mostly fun sci-fi.

And if this is 10k years in the past then it's probably before the Butlerian Jihad happened.

It's HBO, so that is a good thing. Looks interesting...

zap said:

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It's HBO, so that is a good thing. Looks interesting...

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Let us all hope they can finish it as well as they start it, if the start is as good as the movies.

zap said:

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It's HBO, so that is a good thing. Looks interesting...

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No, it's MAX because their dumbass CMO thinks there is more equity in the Cinemax name than the HBO name.

LOL.

Sorry, I just think that decision is mind-blowingly stupid and can't help but call it out.

YouBet said:

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I just don't get the hate of Brian Herbert's prequels. No, they do not approach the intellectualness of his dad's stuff, but what could?

I read most of them back in the day and thought they were mostly fun sci-fi.

And if this is 10k years in the past then it's probably before the Butlerian Jihad happened.

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It's either right before it or right after it. The Butlerian Jihad was always claimed "over 10,000 " years ago. Which is what got rid of AI.

Atreides Ornithopter said:

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YouBet said:

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I just don't get the hate of Brian Herbert's prequels. No, they do not approach the intellectualness of his dad's stuff, but what could?

I read most of them back in the day and thought they were mostly fun sci-fi.

And if this is 10k years in the past then it's probably before the Butlerian Jihad happened.

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It's either right before it or right after it. The Butlerian Jihad was always claimed "over 10,000 " years ago. Which is what got rid of AI.

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Yep. Considering the current rise of AI in real life I can't imagine they won't take advantage of that plot line here.