The Sisterhood is expanding. HBO Max’s Dune spinoff series has been announcing excellent casting all month, with three legends on board so far: Emily Watson (The Proposition, Punch-Drunk Love) and Shirley Henderson (Tristram Shandy, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) as sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen, and Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Obi-Wan Kenobi) as Empress Natalya.
Now the adaptation has added five more series regulars: Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Faoileann Cunningham, Aoife Hinds, and Chloe Lea.
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The new additions aren’t all Sisters: Boussnina (The Bridge) is the independent Princess Inez, heir to the Golden Lion Throne, and Brune-Franklin (The Tourist) is Mikaela, a Fremen woman serving the royal family.
Cunningham (The Witcher: Blood Origin) is a fierce and guarded acolyte at the Sisterhood School; Hinds (Hellraiser) is another acolyte, one who comes from a line of martyrs (yikes); and Lea (Foundation) is the youngest kid at Sisterhood School. They sound like a volatile mix.
One-upping even Rings of Power, Dune: The Sisterhood is set 10,000 years before Dune. According to Variety, the show “follows the Harkonnen Sisters (Watson and Henderson) as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit.” It’s based on Sisterhood of Dune, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and is created by Diane Ademu-John (a producer and writer for The Haunting of Bly Manor), who shares showrunning duties with Alison Schapker (a producer and writer on everything from Lost to Westworld).
No release date has been announced.
