>'Dune: The Sisterhood' TV Series a Go at WarnerMedia
Based on Frank Herbert's novel, the female-focused take will be directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Jon Spaihts.
'Dune: The Sisterhood' TV Series a Go at WarnerMedia
Bentley Rivera
Tyler Martin
WarnerMedia's forthcoming streaming service is poised to explore the world of Dune.
The yet-unnamed platform has handed out a straight-to-series order for Dune: The Sisterhood, a female-focused take on Frank Herbert's beloved novel. Denis Villeneuve, who wrote, produced and directed next year's new take on Dune, will helm the pilot. Jon Spaihts will pen the script for the TV series, which hails from Legendary Television. Villeneuve and Spaihts will executive produce alongside Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert for the Frank Herbert estate. Kevin J. Anderson will co-produce. Spaihts co-wrote the screenplay alongside Villeneuve.
Production on the Dune feature, which hails from Legendary Entertainment and is being distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, began filming in March. The film's cast includes Timothee Chalamet as the lead character, Paul Atreides, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac and David Dastmalchian. It is scheduled to premiere Nov. 20, 2020.
Herbert's Dune novel examines a future in which humanity has spread across the galaxy to thousands of worlds, all ruled by the Padishah Emperor, The Imperium. Dune: The Sisterhood takes place in the same universe and explores the future through the eyes of a mysterious order of women: the Bene Gesserit. Given abilities by their mastery of the body and the mind, the Bene Gesserit expertly weave through the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium, pursuing plans of their own that will ultimately lead them to the enigmatic planet Arrakis — known to its inhabitants as Dune.
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"The Bene Gesserit have always been fascinating to me. Focusing a series around that powerful order of women seemed not only relevant and inspiring but a dynamic setting for the television series,” Villeneuve said.
The TV series and feature film are the tip of the iceberg for Legendary's larger plan for Dune, which also includes video games, digital content packages and comic book series. Legendary CEO Joshua Grode told The Hollywood Reporter in April that the plan was to split Dune across two movies, though only the first one has been scheduled. To date, there have been more than 20 books in the Dune series, the first six of them written by Herbert. His son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson, continued the series.
Next year's Dune is the second time the franchise has been adapted for the big screen. The first Dune, released in 1984, was written and directed by David Lynch and starred Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Virginia Madsen, Sting and Patrick Stewart, among others. It was adapted by writers John Harrison and Herbert as a three-part TV series starring William Hurt in 2000 on Syfy. In 2003, Greg Yaitanes (Lost) directed a three-part Syfy follow-up from Harrison and Herbert that starred James McAvoy.
WarnerMedia's streaming service is due to launch in beta in late 2019. The platform will feature a roster of scripted originals as well as content from WarnerMedia-owned platforms including HBO, TBS, TNT, CNN and more. Dune is the third series in the works for the SVOD service, joining Paul Feig's comedic anthology Love Live, starring Anna Kendrick, and the Ansel Egort-led drama Tokyo Vice. A Gremlins animated TV series is also in the works.
Both Dune and Gremlins take advantage of the library content that is controlled by WarnerMedia. The model is similar to what Disney+ and CBS All Access are doing with their respective platforms.
Brayden Turner
i am doing the based
Aiden Howard
When will Yea Forums have it's own streaming service?
William Collins
>Villeneuve
He's a weak-sauce director.
Jeremiah Morales
no shit Gremlins? hope it's better than that shit critters series we got
Lincoln Russell
Is it a form of ((((their)))) revenge for what he allowed himself to show with Polytechnique?
Jaxon Jackson
it's called cytube ;p
Kayden Parker
I honestly just think it's because he got neutered on Nu-Dune and can't do anything creatively with the material because the production company wants to make sure they can get the film into China and past the CPC. That means no politics or altering timelines, because this is illegal in Chinese cinema. This series is a way to do what he wants with the Dune universe because Brian Herbert and Legendary Studios have screwed him over on Dune.
James Carter
I hope this is fake news.
Wyatt Adams
Space feminism is going to get them broke.
Jason Myers
I just think ((((they)))) are some powerful leftists, who gave him power in order to humiliate him for Polytechnique (showing a shooter kill women, because he considered them feminists).
>Dennis, here are some money and make a great movie! You have freedom!
>Dennis, we gave you so much freedom and so much money, no It's time for you to return the favor. LGBTQTG1+ FEMINIST DUNE KILL WHITE MAN DRUMPF
And Dennis has to do it now...
Luis Watson
>politics is illegal in china
just shit that is against the chinese govt. which dune wont be cause its sci fi!
Luke Moore
Why not adapt the books as a full series in the first place? This must be bait.
Christian White
yeah it will probably be anti-arabic as well in some way and china likes that
Jaxson Cooper
>Focusing a series around that powerful order of women seemed not only relevant and inspiring
Why is he such a cuck for women? He basically said the same thing for br2049. "Women are not treated well in the world" or some shit. And i'm sharing a board with idiots who happily gobble up this hack's work because BASED. Fuck this board.
Andrew Rogers
>mfw it's real
hollywoodreporter.com
What the fuck?
Carson Lopez
We had oval until Yea Forums got triggered by gay porn during commercials during the every Simpsons ever marathon and got it nuked by fox. And thus the seeds of destruction were sown like so many gummi bears.
Austin Hall
Fuck that, Frank was a romanticist concerning the Eastern Civilization. My view is that he had a pretty well informed understanding of Islam, he grew up in Cairo Egypt while his father was stationed there, and uses some religious concepts from Islam to portray the difference of thought between the Greco-Atreides and the Islamo-Fremen. This story is essentially a love story between the west and the east, and it is celebrated in the spirit of these patriarchal traditions: Through war.
Oliver Rogers
Is Dune just Game Of Thrones in space?
Christopher Walker
I don't think there's any conspiracy here, just that Denis knows that Dune is going to turn out to be shit, and he wants a fair shot at working in this universe under a different studio.
Isaiah Peterson
Dishonestman strikes again
Henry Watson
It looks like that's what the studio wants to turn it into.
Luis Cooper
Explain.
Jack Reed
i want to be at lunch's house when he's reading variety about the inevitable flop of villenueve's dune empire
Austin Rogers
So it's based on the last two books?
If so the source materials pretty solid. If they can actually find actresses capable of pulling it off.
>Space witches manipulate and control politics in the known sphere
>selective breeding, gene editing, magic n shit
>ruthless and manipulative
Really grand scale and interesting concepts. How they use men as weapons and shit. Eventually a rogue sect completely dominates men to use as tools.
Jeremiah Smith
I want to be at Jodorowsky's.
Anthony Rogers
He claims it's his best work ever, that his whole life he was aiming at making his Dune adaption. He will bow to his owners and fuck it up politically.
Nicholas Lopez
>'Dune: The Sisterhood'
Should have called it Dune: Mind-Killer
Cameron Walker
So Dune: The Sisterhood will be made by a brotherhood of filmmakers except for one producer who happens to be Frank Herbert's granddaughter.
Sorry but it's 2019 and if you're making a female focused TV series and the creative team is skewed male then that is really not acceptable imo.
Angel Martin
>Dune: Mind-Killer
Dune: Marijuana
Tyler Sanders
He's never claimed this is his best work. He's not even finished yet so he wouldn't know. All he's said is that he has been in love with Dune since he was a boy.
>He will bow to his owners and fuck it up politically.
Unfortunately I think that you are probably right. Legendary does not have a great track record since 2016 when they were bought out by a Chinese Real estate investment corp.
Luis Bailey
China fucks up everything they touch.
Luke Diaz
still-suit chani is so fuckin hot, imagine the smell
Justin Powell
**Legendary has plans to expand ’DUNE’ following Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film. These plans include video games, digital content packages, comic book series and the television series ‘DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD’ for the WarnerMedia Streaming Service.
deadline.com
Nathan Collins
Dune is literally the story of a Space and Time bending drug addicted Autistic Savant who militarily aligns himself with proto-Islamic bedouins to overthrow a Galactic Authoritarian Aristocratic Empire. If you think that China will let this story be told the way it was written you have another thing coming.
Juan Anderson
I have read most of the Dune books (God Emperor is the best sequel). There is no reality in which Dune becomes a major lucrative media property. I totally understand why the studio is taking a chance on this (running out of old IP to dredge up, looking for something pre-existing that they can turn into a franchise that has iconography, SANDWORMS). but it's not going to pan out.
Tyler Rodriguez
this.
Legendary is the most utterly desperate studio in Hollywood right now, financially they are hanging on by a limb, and have already attempted to pull out of the studio but cannot find a buyer.
Joshua Allen
Reclaimed braaaps.
Kevin Price
I agree. Only females should make female shows so that way it will always be the shittiest version of itself that ca ever be made.
Alexander Evans
Wasn't 2049 antiwomen? In which K rejects the manipulative women in his life?
Brandon Allen
Heavy editing and re-imagination of the IP only taking bits and pieces of the other books.
Blake Baker
twitter SJWs are already crying about it lmao
do they think Frank Herbert was a woman or something
Chase Fisher
Have you ever had sex before?
Jaxon Wood
>weak-sauce
Anyone who uses that phrase is a faggot.
Daniel Brown
It’s Lawrence of Arabia plus Hamlet in space
Robert Allen
>Eventually a rogue sect completely dominates men to use as tools.
Honored Matres sex powers was just Herbert's way of beating the inevitable /ss/ hentai parodies to the punch.
Jacob Nguyen
It sounds a bit premature to me. Will all these things still happen if the first film flops?
But hey, maybe it's a sign of confidence.
Leo Walker
>These plans include video games,
We already have great video games. For goodness sake, just leave it alone!
Jaxson Cooper
>Kevin J. Anderson will co-produce
THAT'S A BIG FUCKING NOPE AND HUGE FUCKING YIKES
Aiden Wood
It is an odd series to try and make a Star Wars franchise out of. They should have done something like Lensman or Known Space.
Benjamin Perry
Is Warhammer just Dune with toys?
Luis Miller
It's way too edgy to be a mega-franchise.
Joshua Hernandez
I absolutely hate and detest TV series.
I sincerely hope the films do well and for this TV series to never get past the pre production phase.
Justin Jackson
DEFINITELY YIKES
Tyler King
The Turd Season of West World looks dope.
Andrew Harris
>guy makes a movie about how a dumbass incel hating feminist shoots up a school
>thinks the director is redpilled and has incel motives
>thinks da joos are after him because of this
This is why the whole world thinks you faggots are dumb.
Nolan Ward
Who made Villeneuve believe this rat boy could be the face of a whole franchise? This is going to be as good ass those Tom Holland's franchises that are not spider-man.
Matthew Myers
Go back.
Caleb Phillips
He's way too old.
Kayden Richardson
He still looks young. And makeup can do a lot.
Also will be great for the second film, easy transition to older Paul
Justin Gonzalez
He's a mediocre actor. He wasn't acting in his gay movie, he was attracted to Armie Hammer, he's gay.
Xavier Diaz
Thing that pisses me off the most is that he just was critically acclaimed for playing a broken drug addict. This is exactly the opposite disposition of Paul, Paul is totally entranced and empowered by the Spice, and the Spice is based on the Psilocybin Mushrooms of the American Northwest that Frank was rumored to be fond of. Chalamet will have to either totally do a 180 on his fan base, or turn Frank's material into something that it's not in order to appease his fan base. Judging by the fact that he's an impressionable young kid, and that the studio managing the project sucks, it's probably just going to end up being a shadow of the source material.
Aaron Phillips
They should just use de-aging technology on Kyle and ditch the Chalamet kid.
Joshua Collins
And then his son becomes a giant worm emperor that rules the galaxy for thousands of years or something.
Jeremiah Cox
I'll see your YIKEs and raise you an OOF. What are they thinking?!
Jace Ward
>>'Dune: The Sisterhood'
So they're going to make a series about women breeding themselves to create the perfect man? Who eventually get replaced by another woman order who use their bodies and sex to control everyone?
That'll go over well...
Angel Robinson
Don't worry, we won't be getting that sequel if it bombs, so they shouldn't be able to butcher that part of the story thank God.
Chase Fisher
I'll add an "eek" to that.
Grayson Lopez
>tfw no Dune series will be successful enough to get to the books with Miles Teg.
I'll never see my favorite Dune character on screen
Evan Butler
The twink has a fanbase?
Also, he said in an interview, that he wants to be a big star, like Leonardo DiCaprio. His agent told him Dune was going to be a big deal, since it has a big deal director. Thus chamelet wanted to be in Dune. Never read the book. Probably never will. Pure status seeking. A very harkonnen trait, desu.
Austin Jenkins
Mostly young girls, zoomers, and parents that wish their children were successful. I agree, there is a disgusting elitism in his personal character that I find off-putting. He looks way too okay with standing next to Bezos. Paul's supposed to be a humble autismo Character who uses his royal lineage to do good for others. Hard to picture Chalamet in this role desu.
Christian Williams
I'm admittedly only at the end of Messiah Right now. Really should work my way up to God Emperor at least, just can't find the motivation to sit down and read lately.
Wyatt Anderson
>I'm admittedly only at the end of Messiah Right now. Really should work my way up to God Emperor at least, just can't find the motivation to sit down and read lately.
In my experience reading the original Dune series (years and years ago) the later books get a little dull and then they pick up towards the end.
Ayden Butler
Punchable faces.
James Ortiz
Very much agreed. I see nothing of the quiet strength or sharp mind of Paul Atreides in the lad. He seems very shallow and socially needy.
Levi Nguyen
Be aware that "Children of Dune," is a pain to get through
Oliver Nguyen
I've started rereading the series recently, up until the later part of Children. I gotta say, Messiah aged much better than I thought, it's such a good book if you're not expecting some hyped up action story. Paul's tragedy and his later transformation into the Preacher is a great read. I think people miss the point that the Atreides are not the 'good guys' because Frank doesn't beat the reader over the head with it.
Robert Flores
Fact that pic rel. Isn't Jamis is also fucking infuriating. Momoa's personality is so fucking wrong for Duncan Idaho it's ridiculous.
Juan Johnson
I disagree, there are some parts that veer somewhat into fantasy rather than philosophical science fiction, but it's still not a bad book. It's more story oriented in comparison to Messiah, but not so much as the first book, so it's stuck in a strange place.
Andrew Nguyen
Also loved Messiah, the stone burner scene is great, I loved how Paul by being blinded attained even deeper prescience and vision. Truly a psychedelic masterwork.
Grayson Thompson
>Momoa
>Idaho
at least he'll get killed pretty quick and we won't see him until a later sequel
>Momoa playing a ghola mentat
lol
Julian Hall
I imagined Duncan to be a lithe charismatic medium sized dude who fought like a graceful duelist rather than a muscled brute who is probably going to smash himself against the Sardaukar.
Gavin Sullivan
>Momoa playing a ghola mentat
Who also happens to be a zensunni philosopher. Jesus christ that would be both terrible and hilarious.
Andrew Gutierrez
Honestly, I told the studio to cast Chalamet as Duncan, and portray Duncan as a classmate of Paul's with a competitive rivalry. Nobody listened to me though.
Gavin Perez
>Who also happens to be a zensunni philosopher
and eventually THE kwisatz haderach if you factor in the new dune novels.
...oh dear...
Easton Wilson
>"The Bene Gesserit have always been fascinating to me. Focusing a series around that powerful order of women seemed not only relevant and inspiring but a dynamic setting for the television series,” Villeneuve said
Do these Hollywood kikes ever read the fucking source material. The whole series highlights how fucking retarded and incompetent the entire order actually is. Even worse, if they want to go for the “women stronk” angle, the same fucking series has countless other examples of women that aren’t fucking retards.
Jackson Morris
>tfw the greatest works of literature were all written by men
Leo Howard
I'm going to love to see how they spin the breeding program (which is the ultimate purpose of the bene gesserit's existence) to be pro-wymyn.
Ryder Robinson
While true, women can actually write books. Why can women into literature but not anything else?
Jordan Cruz
kek, so true, Frank spends all of Messiah just shitting on Gaias and Irulan's incompetent attempts to seize power.
Daniel Ward
He's got to be sleeping with Bezos or one of his friends. He's even got his equally ugly untalented sister a role in the new Judd Apatow movie with Pete Davidson. She's 28 and never worked in a US production before.
Jeremiah Lopez
I fully believe every single actor has been casting couched or by a producer or director or exchanges sexual favors for roles at this point.
Lincoln Stewart
Words are all they ever developed in those caves.
Mason Garcia
Everything is all about sex now, even kids are being sexualized to all hell and losing their innocence too early, no innocent 90's spirit for our Dune movie frens. Feels bad.
Luis Diaz
Jason moamoa would be an ideal jamis. The fact that he was cast as Duncan suggests they're hoping for sequels. Insh'Allah, they never get their wish.
Charles Watson
Amen brother.
Joseph Brown
>The fact that he was cast as Duncan suggests they're hoping for sequels.
It would suggest me the complete opposite. Momoa would never be able to play Hayt.