Given that Denis Villeneuve decided to adapt Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune across two movies rather than one, like David Lynch did in the ‘80s, there was a time where there was no guarantee that the second part would ever be made. Fortunately, just a few weeks after Dune’s release in 2021, Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary announced that Dune: Part Two was moving forward, and now we’re a little over four months away from its release on the 2023 movies calendar. But even before Part Two was a done deal, a Max spinoff series called Dune: The Sisterhood was in development, and today brings word of some major casting shakeups for the prequel show.
The Crown’s Olivia Williams and The Witcher’s Jodhi May have been brought in to play two key roles in Dune: The Sisterhood. May is taking over the role of Tula Harkonnen from Shirley Henderson, who exited the show back in February, and May has been selected to play Empress Natalya in place of Indira Varma, who needed to exit the project due to a scheduling conflict. Deadline also mentioned in its report that Lou’s Anna Foerster will direct multiple episodes of The Sisterhood, filling in the shoes of Johan Renck, who also left in February.
