The Origin of the Atreides-Harkonnen Feud at the Heart of Dune: Prophecy

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first episode of Dune: Prophecy.

The HBO series Dune: Prophecy is set about 10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides, the protagonist of the original Dune books. Sadly, that means Timothée Chalamet—who plays Paul in Denis Villeneuve’s ongoing adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune novels—won’t be making any cameos as a hot prophet in the six-episode season. But the good news is his ancestors play a big role in the show, as do the ancestors of Paul’s rival...