‘Dune: Prophecy’ Stars on the Prequel’s Premiere, AI Foreshadowing and Going Back to ‘10,000 Years B.C. (Before Chalamet)’

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 past, there’s no Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen or Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan Corrino — but their family dynasties are well represented in “Dune: Prophecy.” The show explains the origins of the Bene Gesserit, the powerful, all-female sect that secretly pulls the political strings of the universe.

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