Dune: The Sisterhood is increasing: Indira Varma (aka Game Of Thrones‘ Ellaria Sand) has joined HBO Max’s forthcoming prequel collection, our sister website Deadline stories.
The female-led spinoff of the movie franchise is meant to behave as a companion collection to the brand new Dune movies because it portrays the occasions of the Frank Herbert novels via the eyes of the Bene Gesserit, a mysterious order of girls. As beforehand reported, Emily Watson (Chernobyl) will play Valya Harkonnen, whereas Shirley Henderson (Happy Valley) will play Tula Harkonnen — two sisters who “have risen to power in the Sisterhood, a secret organization of women who will go on to become the Bene Gesserit.”
Varma will painting Empress Natalya, “a formidable royal who united thousands of worlds in her marriage to Emperor Corrino.” In addition to her arc on Game of Thrones, the actress’ earlier TV credit embody Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Capture, For Life, Carnival Row, Human Target and Rome.
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* Netflix has given a collection order to creator Kurt Sutter’s Western motion drama The Abandons, in regards to the “fine line between survival and law, the consequences of violence, and the corrosive power of secrets” as a household fights to maintain their land in 1850s Oregon, our sister website Variety stories.
* Michael Beach (Dahmer: Monster, The 100), Lindsey Gort (All Rise) and Joshua Colley (Love, Victor) will recur in HBO Max’s upcoming collection Dead Boy Detectives, based mostly on Neil Gaiman’s DC Comics characters, with Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant) and Beth Schwartz (Arrow) serving as showrunners, per Deadline.
* Hulu has given a 10-episode order to the drama Interior Chinatown, starring Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley) as Willis Wu, “a background character trapped in a police procedural trying to find his way into the larger story — and along the way discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family’s buried history.” The collection hail from showrunner Charles Yu, who penned the e book on which the present relies, and director Taika Waititi.
* Amazon Freevee has greenlit God. Family. Football., a coming-of-age docuseries following former soccer participant and highschool soccer coach Denny Duron, who has come out of a 30-year retirement to steer this system he based at Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, La again to nationwide prominence.
* Showtime has launched a trailer Season 3 for The L Word: Generation Q, premiering Sunday, Nov. 20 at 8/7c:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cga77KHzbqA
* Watch a teaser for Spirited, a brand new tackle A Christmas Carol starring Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, and Octavia Spencer, and streaming Friday, Nov. 18 on Apple TV+ (following its theatrical launch on Nov. 11):
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