SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the premiere of “Dune: Prophecy,” titled “The Hidden Hand,“ now streaming on Max. Eight months after the premiere of the movie “Dune: Part 2,” it’s time to go 10,000 years into the story’s past with HBO’s prequel series “Dune: Prophecy.” Since the show is set in the distant […]

As of this writing, the third film in director Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” series has yet to receive an official greenlight. (The project technically remains in development.) Nonetheless, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery and producer Legendary Television have already begun the work of converting the movies’ billion-plus dollars in combined box office into a multimedia franchise; […]

To prepare for her starring role in “Dune Prophecy,” a sci-fi series set thousands of years in the future, Emily Watson turned to the Tudor dynasty. She spent hours at London’s National Portrait Gallery looking at paintings of Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Anne Boleyn, women who, at least for a time, […]