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‘Dune: Prophecy’ Stars on the Prequel’s Premiere, AI Foreshadowing and Going Back to ‘10,000 Years B.C. (Before Chalamet)’
The 'Dune: Prophecy' stars and showrunner explain the season premiere of the prequel series on HBO.
Meanwhile, a soldier named Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel), who survived an attack on Arrakis, arrives and requests an audience with the Emperor, but the resident Reverend Mother Kasha (Jihae) is suspicious of him. Showrunner Alison Schapker and stars Watson and Williams break down the premiere with Variety, discussing their Harkonnen characters and creating a “Dune” universe that’s 10,000 years in the past. Schapker: It’s a very trippy experience to be working in a “Dune” universe that imagines the fallout of artificial intelligence and the price that humans paid — and the great cost to the species to give their thinking over and outsource that.
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