[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy season 1.]
Dune: Prophecy has blown all of it up. Not actually — however in a season that began with cautious backroom offers and manipulations, Prophecy’s finale placing all of the maneuvering into the open is a dramatic tone shift for the sequence. With season 1 ending with Valya (Emily Watson) fleeing to Arrakis alongside Princess Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) and Keiran Atreides (Chris Mason), the desk is actually set for an epic cross-planet battle. (That is Dune, in spite of everything.)
And with some dramatic introductions and exits (extra on that beneath), the trail ahead for the Bene Gesserit in Dune: Prophecy is much less clear than ever. So what is going to a second season carry to the Imperium? Right here’s every little thing we find out about Dune: Prophecy’s season 2.
Is Dune: Prophecy season 2 taking place?
Dune: Prophecy is coming again for an additional season. Warner Bros. introduced that the present would return for season 2 on Thursday, just some days earlier than the season 1 finale. It was not introduced what number of episodes this new season could be.
When will Dune: Prophecy season 2 come out?
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That is one thing else that Warner Bros. didn’t announce, so we’ve got no actual thought when this new season may be launched. It’s technically attainable that filming has already begun, however fairly unlikely. If that’s how the schedule labored out, then the present might return for an additional season subsequent yr. Nevertheless it’s much more prone to movie subsequent yr and be prepared for a 2026 launch. This sample would additionally match related latest Warner Bros. reveals, together with The Final of Us and Home of the Dragon.
What is going to Dune: Prophecy season 2 be about?
The season 1 finale of the present provides a surprisingly clear blueprint for season 2’s plot. As an example, we all know that the emperor is lifeless, and the Bene Gesserit are prone to be blamed for it. We all know that Desmond Hart is alive, and that his eye is an infectious illness robotic, and that studying his true parentage hasn’t appeared to melt his hatred for the Bene Gesserit both.
In the meantime, contained in the Sisterhood’s residence base there’s an insurgency being led by a Reverend Mom spirit possessing the physique of a younger acolyte — so who is aware of the place that plot’s going to go.
Nestled into the center of all of it’s the betrayal between Valya and Tula (Olivia Williams), with the latter having lastly revealed that her son survived childbirth, and he or she hid him — and now is aware of that he has turn into Desmond Hart. Studying such an enormous betrayal from a sister she thought was in lockstep with the Sisterhood’s imaginative and prescient is, to place it mildly, a reasonably large shake-up for the pair working the order. “It’s blown every little thing up, however I believe Valya might be nonetheless holding ‘I’m the chosen one, I’ve the future’ — [that] remains to be her information,” Watson stated at a press convention forward of the finale. “[And] I believe Valya’s intuition is to run for the shadows.”
It’s actually a change for the sisters — significantly with Tula being instantly arrested by her personal son and his Imperium troopers. With all that in thoughts, there are positive to be different plots began up within the present’s second season, however that’s fairly a sophisticated place to start out from, on the very least. Particularly since, with Reverend Mom Valya’s arrival on Arrakis, it’s not fairly clear if she means to cease a battle or begin one.
“After a season of Arrakis type of exerting its pull from afar […] to really go and put boots on the bottom at this extremely overdetermined and type of virtually mythic Dune house that we all know very effectively, however we type of saved it at distance the entire season,” showrunner Alison Schapker stated at a press convention, “it’s very vital that Valya’s again there.
“All I’d say is, I believe Valya is there; I believe Valya goes to search out out much more, provided that she is type of again the place Desmond type of emerged as an adversary. And [it will] be fascinating to see what she finds on the market.”
Is Dune 3 going to return out earlier than Dune: Prophecy’s new season?
This can be a excellent query. Dune 3 is at present set for launch on Dec. 18, 2026. So if every little thing goes excellent, Prophecy season 2 might hit someplace round September or October 2026, offering an ideal lead-in to the discharge of the brand new movie. However, if the timelines get out of whack, we might get an identical scenario to what occurred this yr, with a brand new Dune film arriving in theaters and the TV present following in its wake some 9 months later.