The newest addition to the Dune franchise doesn’t want to be a one-off entry. According to Dune: Prophecy executive producer Jordan Goldberg, “There are so many things to touch upon in this universe — our characters themselves are incredibly rich, and their choices and their backstories and their motivations give us a lot of potential for more stories. I’m hoping we can go as long as we can. I mean, the show is called Dune: Prophecy, so we’re just getting started with how all this comes to be, 10,000 years later, with Paul Atreides.”
Says star Travis Fimmel, with a laugh, “It’s really a period piece, isn’t it?”
“It’s a futuristic period piece,” Goldberg agrees.
During a recent day of roundtable interviews with the cast and producers behind the HBO spinoff series, Dune: Prophecy’s curious place in Dunelore was a big topic of conversation — especially because of the show’s exploration of how …