The macrocosm of Denis Villeneuve’sDuneis getting bighearted with prescribed casting announced for the prequel twirl - off serial Sisterhood of Dune . Varietyannounced that Emily Watson ( Chernobyl ) will play Valya Harkonnen andShirley Henderson ( Star Wars : The Rise Of Skywalker)will work Tula Harkonnen .
The show is coiffe 10,000 long time before the events of Dune and is based on the novel Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert ( boy of originalDune serieswriter and Sci - Fi great Frank Herbert ) and Kevin J. Anderson ( mention Star Wars Legends canon writer ) .
The official logline reveals the show “ follows the Harkonnen Sisters as they battle forces that jeopardize the future of humankind , and give the fabled faction known as the Bene Gesserit , ” and described Watson and Henderson ’s roles as siblings who “ have risen to power in the Sisterhood , a cloak-and-dagger organization of woman who will go on to become the Bene Gesserit . ” We ’re getting some cryptical sorceress backstory here to find out how the religious order unionize and spreads within the political families . Their history and knowledge will come quite in handy to know as we meet raw characters in the forthcoming Dune sequel like Lady Margot ( recently announce Léa Seydoux ) , another member of the modern sisterhood alongside Lady Jessica ( Rebecca Ferguson ) . sistership of Dune does not have a release date as of yet .
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Dune : Part Two is currently in production with a planned November 2023 liberation .
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