On stage at New York Comic Con, actress Jessica Barden shared a little secret from behind the scenes of Dune: Prophecy that she worried audiences wouldn’t get to see on screen. “The footwear was Nike Airs,” Barden laughed. “My first day on set they gave me these shoes and I was like, Whoa, the Dune space dudes wear Nike Airs footwear. ”

Herbert returns to the Bene Gesserit sisterhood throughout the original Dune books, where they mostly serve as antagonists, who struggle with Paul Atreides and his family for control over the Empire and Arrakis, the home of the superdrug Spice (or melange).

Dune: Prophecy is a strong start for the sci-fi franchise's new series, which tracks the origin of the Bene Gesserit decades after a major war.

Prophecy is here to close us out with a look at some of science fiction's greatest witchy figures: the Bene Gesserit from Frank Herbert's Dune. With their near-supernatural control over their minds and bodies,

The new series traverses the formative years of the Bene Gesserit sect, the simmering tensions between the great houses of Herbert’s world and the wake of the war with the “thinking machines”. But with an exposition-heavy first episode,

A long-gestating prequel, about the women who seek to guide a galaxy, is splashy, somber and insufficiently spicy.

This is a spoiler-free review of Dune: Prophecy's first four episodes. The show premieres on HBO and Max on November 17, 2024, with new episodes airing Sundays through December 22.

The promising prequel show is off to an intriguing start The post ‘Dune: Prophecy’ Review: HBO’s Stellar Sci-Fi Series Is Like ‘Game of Thrones’ in Space appeared first on TheWrap.

The fledgeling Bene Gesserit must band together to survive a deadly reckoning and political turmoil in the newest "Dune" installment, set 10,000 years before the rise of Paul Atreides.

Prophecy and Denis Villeneuve's Dune movies will have a direct connection thanks to a certain type of sci-fi tech.