Emily Watson Teases Details of Her Character and Storyline in DUNE: PROPHECY and Says the Series "Isn't Like STAR WARS"

Max’s upcoming epic sci-fi bid Dune: Prophecy will show a communicative that takes spot 10,000 years earlier nan events of nan first Dune novel.

The bid follows nan Harkonnen Sisters arsenic they combat forces that frighten nan early of humankind and found nan fabled sect known arsenic nan Bene Gesserit. Emily Watson and Olivia Williams will represent Valya Harkonnen and Tula Harkonnen, respectively, nan formidable Harkonnen Sisters who person risen to powerfulness successful nan Sisterhood.

Watson precocious sat down pinch Total Film (via GamesRadar) to tease nan "moral complexity" of nan HBO series, while dismissing comparisons to different large sci-fi franchise. She explained:

"It’s built astir nan Bene Gesserit order. That’s nan sisterhood. That’s 1 of nan cardinal characters successful it, and each nan universes that they control, and their power… it’s benignant of fascinating.”

Watson says they are still "a spot of a fucked-up family", nan clan will beryllium "very recognizably quality and complicated" and "less extreme" than their movie counterparts millennia into nan future. That each amounts to Dune: Prophecy blending a operation of aged lore and world-building pinch nan chance to research much uncharted territory. For Watson, that's a boon that allows her to showcase her talents. Watson says:

"It was very exciting, but besides very awesome to spell into that world pinch nan information of knowing I’ve sewage nan accomplishment group to make everything consciousness real. It’s a very absorbing palette because it’s not childish… it’s not for illustration Star Wars. It has a civilized complexity, which is interesting."

Dune: Prophecy will beryllium released connected HBO successful nan US successful November and connected NOW TV and Sky successful nan UK later this year.