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'Prophecy' Trailer, Plot Details Revealed at New York Comic Con

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'Prophecy' Trailer, Plot Details Revealed at New York Comic Con

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NEW YORK – The spice will flow on HBO.

The cast and producers of “Dune: Prophecy” stopped by New York Comic Con on Thursday to see the first show to emerge from Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” films. A new trailer for the six-part HBO prequel series was also shown and debuted online, and the show was finally assigned a premiere date: November 17th.

Set approximately 10,000 years before the films, “Dune: Prophecy” follows the origins of the Bene Gesserit, the group of women with supernatural abilities who secretly exert their influence over the entire “Dune” universe from the shadows. In the films, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) is a Bene Gesserit who trains her son Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) in her own way.

Showrunner Alison Schapker announced to the audience at New York Comic Con a series that will reveal more about the mysterious Bene Gesserit than we see in the films.

“In the films they show off their full strength and do their moves, but they are wrapped in some kind of intrigue,” she said. “One of the great things about this series is that we certainly don't want to take away its mystique, but we do look behind its closed doors and see how they work.”

The show “Dune: Prophecy” is about the feud between Houses Harkonnen and Atreides

The show also reveals the beginning of the epic feud between Houses Harkonnen and Atreides. “How did this (feud) start?” Schapker said. “How could this become so entrenched? This is something we will investigate.”

In the original novels and film adaptations by Frank Herbert, the Harkonnens are the villains; Fans will remember Stellan Skarsgård's unforgettable portrayal of the horrifically evil Vladimir Harkonnen in 2021's Dune. But in the series, the Harkonnens are our main characters. Emily Watson and Olivia Williams star as a pair of Harkonnen siblings who lead the Sisterhood, the organization that will eventually become the Bene Gesserit.

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“Prophecy” is set at a time when the Harkonnens are not “quite the more monstrous version that you see 10,000 years later,” Schapker said, although they are still shown as people with “tremendous power and a willingness to go to great lengths company”. achieve their goals.”

Emily Watson and Olivia Williams tease their Dune: Prophecy characters

Watson said she loved playing Valya Harkonnen, a character from a “really, really, noticeably messed up family.” Valya is determined to “find the right path for humanity,” she teased.

Williams, meanwhile, referenced the upcoming presidential election when she said that the show, with its focus on the shadowy Bene Gesserit, evokes the idea that it's “not necessarily the people who are at the podium, but the people who are a few.” “They step behind and signal with their fingers” are the ones “you have to watch out for.”

Where does the “Dune: Prophecy” series tie in with the films?

The series begins “on the other side of the rise of artificial intelligence,” beginning in the shadow of a war that ended with the outlawing of all AI and thinking machines, Schapker explained.

“Does that mean they aren’t floating around the universe in different ways? Who knows,” she said. “But in general, people have had to strive to fill the gap that technology used to do. Now people are trying to push forward the boundaries of what it means to be human to close that gap. … It allows us to ask questions about the role of technology in new ways.”

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Executive producer Jordan Goldberg added that when the series begins, people have been “oppressed by technology” for so long. But the show explores the question: “Now that humanity is free, will humanity destroy itself?” The sisterhood sort of acts as a guardrail against that.”

What can “Dune” fans expect? What will be different in Dune: Prophecy?

Fans should expect to see some familiar elements from the films, including spices.

“We're showing a recreational world that revolves around people using spices and spice-based synthetic products,” Goldberg said. And yes, there will be sandworms. “We brought out all the big guns,” he said.

But a difference from the films? Williams said she and her co-stars don't have to brave the desert like their co-stars, but that doesn't mean they don't face the challenges of filming, too.

“If you're expecting sand, heat and blue skies, we're on a very humid planet where a man with a backpack full of water pumped water and then hosed us down so we were.” “It was always slightly humid,” she said, quipping: “The other actors in Denis' films would complain about how hot it is in Jordan?

Watch the full trailer for Dune: Prophecy

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