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First Look Teaser Released For MAX Original Series DUNE: PROPHECY

This week during the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront presentation, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max Content, unveiled a first look teaser of the Max Original drama series DUNE: PROPHECY. The six-episode season debuts this fall on Max.

From the expansive universe of “Dune,” created by acclaimed author Frank Herbert, and 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, DUNE: PROPHECY follows two Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind and establish the fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit. DUNE: PROPHECY is inspired by the novel SISTERHOOD OF DUNE, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

The cast includes Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May, Mark Strong, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Josh Heuston, Chloe Lea, Jade Anouka, Faoileann Cunningham, Edward Davis, Aoife Hinds, Chris Mason, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Jihae, Tabu, Charithra Chandran, Jessica Barden, Emma Canning, and Yerin Ha.

Alison Schapker serves as showrunner and executive producer. Diane Ademu-John co-developed the series and serves as executive producer. Anna Foerster executive produced and directed multiple episodes including the first. Jordan Goldberg, Mark Tobey, John Cameron, Matthew King, Scott Z. Burns, and Jon Spaihts executive produce with New York Times bestselling author Brian Herbert, along with Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert as executive producers for the Frank Herbert estate. New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson serves as co-producer.

The series is co-produced by Max and Legendary Television with Legendary also producing the film franchise that has released award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s two installments to critical acclaim, the first, DUNE, garnered six Oscars. https://www.max.com/movies/dune/e7dc7b3a-a494-4ef1-8107-f4308aa6bbf7

Watch Sally Potter’s New GINGER & ROSA Trailer

Ranging from 1992’s ORLANDO to 2009’s RAGE, writer/director Sally Potter has added a seventh feature to her intriguing list of films with her latest movie GINGER & ROSA. The coming-of-age drama, which screened at the Telluride, Toronto, New York and London Film Festivals in 2012, stars Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, Jodhi May, Annette Bening and Alice Englert.

London, 1962. Two teenage girls – Ginger and Rosa ­- are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and 
dream of lives bigger than their mothers’ frustrated domesticity. But, as
 the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear
 holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered 
- by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.

Potter says,

“… they grow up friends in only the way that girls can be – mirroring each other, sharing their secrets, their private worlds, thinking big and interested in the details: hair, clothes, jeans, jumpers.”

Elle Fanning was picked by New York Times in early December as one of the Hollywood Heroines of 2012. Click HERE to read. For more on these intelligent women and the character’s friendship, watch Potter and stars Elle Fanning and Alice Englert discuss GINGER & ROSA at the BFI Film Festival in 2012. It’s interesting to note in this 10 minute video how these 3 amazing women interact with each other, the experiences we all can relate to and the choices we make along life’s journey.

With it already having it’s opening in British cinemas in October, the film was described by critics as “intimate and sensual” (Indiewire), “with a gleaming intensity” (The Guardian) and a central performance from Elle Fanning that is “simply extraordinary” (Hollywood Reporter). GINGER & ROSA will open in limited release in the U.S. in March.

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