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Dune: Prophecy Series-Premiere Recap: The Space Witch Project
HBO’s latest series of warring houses and political intrigue goes interstellar following the Bene Gesserit’s multi-millennia-long conspiracy.
Until Denis Villeneuve came along, adapting Frank Herbert’s novel Dune into a workable movie seemed like an impossible dream, nobly attempted once by David Lynch under the supervision of producers Dino and Raffaella De Laurentiis but to little critical or commercial success. In “The Hidden Hand,” that plan is to have a genetic stake in a royal bloodline, specifically that of Princess Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina), heir to the Golden Lion throne currently occupied by Emperor Javicco Corrino (Mark Strong), who’s in charge of managing the spice harvest on the planet Arrakis. In the most dramatic moment of the hour — a sequence that echoes the middle-of-the-night attack that wipes out House Atreides in Dune: Part One — Desmond breaks up the new marriage by scorching young Purwet to death with his mind, with Kasha suffering a similar fate simultaneously.
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