[NEWS] WarnerMedia is making a ‘Dune’ series for its streaming service – Loganspace

WarnerMediahas placed a straight-to-sequence speak for “Dune:The Sisterhood,” a issue in response to Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novels and tied to the mountainous-show cloak “Dune” adaptation coming from Warner Bros. next one year.

In step withthe Hollywood Reporter, the film’s director Denis Villeneuve would possibly possibly also be helming the issue’s pilot, which is being scripted by one in every of the movie’s writers, Jon Spaihts.

“Dune” tells the legend of warring noble families against the backdrop of the barren living planet Arrakis. Since its newsletter in 1965, it’s change into one in every of the most valuable science fiction novels of all time. It became once indirectly followed up by 5 sequels written by Herbert himself, to boot to countless prequels and extra sequels from his son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson. It became once also became a movie directed by David Lynch — who became oncenotoriously sad with the outcomes— and later into a Sci Fi Channel miniseries.

For the recent movie, Villeneuve (who beforehand directed “Arrival” and “Blade Runner 2049″) has lined up an insanely spectacular forged that entails Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem.

Not just like the movies, it sounds love “The Sisterhood” would possibly possibly possibly possibly not be a easy adaptation of Herbert’s unusual. As an different, it would focal point on the Bene Gesserit, the titular sisterhood whose secret breeding thought indirectly outcomes within the initiating of “Dune” protagonist Paul Atreides, and whose formation became once depicted inone in every of those prequels. (Anderson and Brian Herbert are both producers on the sequence, but it’s not determined whether or not the issue will be adapting their work.)

Meanwhile, a recent document possessthe Wall Motorway Journalsuggests that WarnerMedia’s streaming technique has been spirited a ways from a 3-tiered thought and would possibly possibly possibly as an different be restricted to a single subscription carrier that would possibly possibly possibly possiblycombine HBO, Cinemax and the Warner Bros. libraryfor a tag between $16 and $17 per month.

Then all over again it looks well-liked express material is nonetheless a chunk of that thought — and love Disney (which isincreasing streaming exhibits tied to its Well-known individual Wars and Wonder film franchises), WarnerMedia is buying for some movie-TV synergy to kickstart those efforts.