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Dune: Prophecy | Official Teaser | Max (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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“10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides, before the universe knew them as the Bene Gesserit...”

“The new Max Original Series Dune: Prophecy is streaming this fall on Max.”

Edited to fix an error in the submission title.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That actually fits in the Dune universe.

Dune itself happens around 20,000 years in the future.

Here’s a timeline that covers the various events in human history

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_(Expanded_Dune)

Considering the title I’m guessing this will cover the inception of the Kwisatz Haderach program by the Bene Gesserite. A long term human genome program thousands of years in the making and undermined by the premature birth of Paul when his mother was supposed to have a girl instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely believe it's been set down. It's just a weird number to have picked in the first place, a full 20k years or whatever into the future. It feels more like Frank Herbert originally just wanted to say "all that happened a long god-damned time ago... don't fixate on it." Yet here we are, fixating on it. If it's a good show, I won't mind at all, but I find it amusing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Maybe but it also shows has humanity has gotten complacent/stagnated which is a key plot point in the later books.

For that you need time for various events such as the guild, the butlerian jihad, etc and then time for everything to be in a kind of equilibrium for millennia