[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 collection. 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 warfare. (That is Dune, in spite of everything.)
And with some dramatic introductions and exits (extra on that under), the trail ahead for the Bene Gesserit in Dune: Prophecy is much less clear than ever. So what is going to a second season deliver to the Imperium? Right here’s all the things we learn 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 have now no actual concept when this new season is perhaps launched. It’s technically doable 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 12 months. However it’s much more more likely to movie subsequent 12 months and be prepared for a 2026 launch. This sample would additionally match comparable 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 gives a surprisingly clear blueprint for season 2’s plot. As an illustration, we all know that the emperor is lifeless, and the Bene Gesserit are more likely 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 guts 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 grow to be 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 all the things up, however I believe Valya might be nonetheless holding ‘I’m the chosen one, I’ve the future’ — [that] continues to be her information,” Watson mentioned 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 — notably 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 warfare or begin one.
“After a season of Arrakis form of exerting its pull from afar […] to truly go and put boots on the bottom at this extremely overdetermined and kind of virtually mythic Dune area that we all know very properly, however we kind of saved it at distance the entire season,” showrunner Alison Schapker mentioned at a press convention, “it’s very vital that Valya’s again there.
“All I might say is, I believe Valya is there; I believe Valya goes to seek out out much more, provided that she is kind of again the place Desmond kind 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?
It is a excellent query. Dune 3 is at present set for launch on Dec. 18, 2026. So if all the things goes good, Prophecy season 2 might hit someplace round September or October 2026, offering an ideal lead-in to the discharge of the brand new movie. Then again, if the timelines get out of whack, we might get an identical scenario to what occurred this 12 months, with a brand new Dune film arriving in theaters and the TV present following in its wake some 9 months later.
