Dune: Prophecy is getting a second season on HBO

The primary season of Dune: Prophecy is about to wrap up — however there’s extra on the way in which. Forward of the finale on December twenty second, HBO has confirmed than the prequel sequence has been renewed for a second season.

The present premiered in November, and takes place 10,000 years earlier than the occasions of the Dune films from Denis Villeneuve. It stars Emily Watson and Olivia Williams as two Harkonnen sisters who kind the galaxy-defining sect referred to as the Bene Gesserit.

“When you simply know the Harkonnens from the flicks, they’re these monstrous villains who’re very clearly the unhealthy guys,” showrunner Alison Schapker instructed The Verge concerning the sequence. “However that’s not the place they began off, and this type of story gave us an opportunity to complicate that understanding and dig into what made them that means.”