“10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides, before the universe knew them as the Bene Gesserit…”
“The new Max Original Series Dune: Prophecy is streaming this fall on Max.”
Edited to fix an error in the submission title.
Not gonna lie, as a huge Dune fan I didn’t see this one coming until this trailer.
Maybe you should consume more spice in order to cultivate your prescience.
I am not the Lisan al Gaib though 😝
I feel like “10,000 years” works better as a bit of hand-wavey poetry rather than a serious suggestion for a setting. I know that societies can be more or less static, but damn, 10,000 years ago, people were just beginning to play with the idea of doing cooler stuff with their stone tools.
That said, the cast and production design looks good. I hope this doesn’t suck.
That actually fits in the Dune universe.
Dune itself happens around 20,000 years in the future.
Here’s a timeline that covers the various events in human history
https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_(Expanded_Dune)
Considering the title I’m guessing this will cover the inception of the Kwisatz Haderach program by the Bene Gesserite. A long term human genome program thousands of years in the making and undermined by the premature birth of Paul when his mother was supposed to have a girl instead.
I absolutely believe it’s been set down. It’s just a weird number to have picked in the first place, a full 20k years or whatever into the future. It feels more like Frank Herbert originally just wanted to say “all that happened a long god-damned time ago… don’t fixate on it.” Yet here we are, fixating on it. If it’s a good show, I won’t mind at all, but I find it amusing.
Maybe but it also shows has humanity has gotten complacent/stagnated which is a key plot point in the later books.
For that you need time for various events such as the guild, the butlerian jihad, etc and then time for everything to be in a kind of equilibrium for millennia
It certainly feels and looks like a tv series. As a Dune fan, I’m cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it lives up to expectations, even though there aren’t really any expectations yet at the moment.
