HBO Max’s Dune Prequel Has Found a Director

DASHCAM

A musician’s desire to break quarantine “incites contempt from her progressive friends” propelling her into “a perilous and profane high-wire horror chase through an increasingly foreboding English countryside” in the trailer for DASHCAM.

Dune: The Sisterhood

Variety reports the Dune prequel series at HBO Max has set Chernobyl director Johan Renck to helm the first two episodes. The series is set “10,000 years prior to the events” of the Denis Villeneuve movie, and will follow “the Harkonnen Sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit.”

The Handmaid’s Tale

In conversation with TV Line, Elisabeth Moss admitted she “almost can’t keep up” with the “amount of activity that’s happening” in the fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale.

I will say that the season itself is possibly one of the wilder rides that we’ve had. We’ve definitely had some seasons [where], you know, a lot happens. Some seasons, not as much happens. I almost can’t keep up with [what happens in the upcoming episodes] and it’s not lip service. I truly mean I almost can’t keep up with the amount of activity that’s happening.

Stranger Things

Season one Eleven gets a season four character poster courtesy of the official Stranger Things Twitter page.

Kung Fu

Mia learns the truth about herself in the trailer for “Disclosure,” next week’s episode of Kung Fu.

The Flash

Ghosts from the past keep returning in the trailer for “Death Falls,” next week’s episode of The Flash.

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Finally, a new teaser for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, re-using basically everything from the original teaser, poetically states “the Jedi code is like an itch… they cannot help it!”

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