The Dune: Prophecy solid and producers teased new collection particulars and the way the present is linked to Denis Villeneuve’s movies whereas discussing the HBO and Max collection throughout New York Comedian Con on Thursday.  

Through the hourlong panel, new footage was teased together with appearances by showrunner Alison Schapker, govt producer Jordan Goldberg, together with castmembers Emily Watson (Valya Harkonnen), Olivia Williams (Tula Harkonnen), Travis Fimmel (Desmond Hart), Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (Princess Ynez), Josh Heuston (Constantine Corrino), Chloe Lea (Lila) and Jessica Barden (younger Valya Harkonnen). 

The panel kicked off with a trailer foretelling troubles “higher than simply Arrakis,” with challenges for the king hidden in plain sight and a mission to erase the sisters from existence. Schapker quickly after teased the place the collection will start, telling attendees “we’re within the shadow of the wars” and within the aftermath of the struggle in opposition to AI. “Computer systems, considering machines, have been outlawed. Does that imply they’re not floating across the universe in varied methods, who is aware of?” the showrunner stated. “People should attempt to fill the voids of what was carried out by expertise. Now people are coming to try to push the boundaries of what it means to be human.”

Later within the panel, Schapker added that the workforce has been “writing a present that’s involved with energy and fact and tales, and what does it imply to have charismatic leaders. Is that one thing to be adopted; one thing to be suspicious of? Dune raises every kind of questions on how energy operates within the mild, but in addition the way it operates within the shadows.

“The sisterhood actually has a distinguished public place, they usually have these jobs as truthsayers. They’re within the halls of energy, they’re instructing ladies, and insinuating themselves into noble households. However they’re additionally pulling strings behind the scenes. That actually speaks to each time interval and highlights some questions all of us could be asking of energy at any given second, together with in the present day,” she continued. “Within the movies, they’re very a lot of their full energy, they usually’re making their strikes, however they’re cloaked in a form of mystique. One of many nice issues about this collection is we actually don’t wish to take away their mystique, however we do go behind their closed doorways and form of see how they function.”

She went on to tease that the collection will present the Atreides, in addition to the “starting of the Harkonnen household at a time once they’re not fairly the extra monstrous model that you simply see 10,000 years later.” As an alternative, it’s the seeds of the Harkonnen household in an earlier time, when “you’re coping with individuals who have great pressure and willingness to go to nice lengths to attain their objectives and an ideal huge grudge.”

As for a way the present will likely be linked to the latest movies, Schapker supplied nice reward for  Villeneuve’s movies, telling followers they set a “excessive bar and actually unlocked Dune for many individuals — simply invigorated the unbelievable work that’s on the market. We undoubtedly felt like we needed to only attempt in each method to be worthy of holding down a special nook of the Dune universe.”

Later, whereas discussing the Dune Expertise activation and the clothes, the solid and artistic workforce additionally teased the manufacturing workforce’s work. “Crew from prime to backside simply did such unbelievable work, and I do suppose that’s a testomony to Dune, and the storytelling that individuals simply attain so deep to understand it and and do it justice and make it with love,” the showrunner stated. “There isn’t any element that we didn’t pore over and take into consideration and punctiliously contemplate. It actually exhibits.”

The prequel to director Villeneuve’s two-part movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed science fiction epic, this small-screen tackle Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s prequel Sisterhood of Dune facilities on two Harkonnen sisters combating the forces that threaten humankind’s future and within the course of set up the Bene Gesserit sect. 

The dialog, which served as the primary public dialogue of the movie by members of the collection’ inventive workforce and solid, vastly expanded on the thematic and literal struggle for energy and management already previewed in two prior teasers of the collection. 

Dune: Prophecy will debut on HBO and Max this Nov. 15.