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Dune: Prophecy can’t match the ambition of the franchise
- Dune: Prophecy, the HBO series, can't match the cinematic nature of Denis Villeneuve' Dune movies.
- While Prophecy is a literary adaptation, its ties to Villeneuve's movies defines it.
- The Dune franchise under Villeneuve is incompatible with TV - a format is too small to handle it.
- At this point, it's painfully clear that shrinking Dune's inherently filmic nature is a task not even the Lisan al Gaib himself could accomplish.
- Longtime Dune devotees may ask why the two miniseries, Frank Herbert's Dune and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, were not successful.
- But here's the thing: Those productions were built from the ground up for the small screen.
- Dune: Prophecy's visual effects, costumes, and sets are light-years ahead of anything Syfy mustered.
- But the series is a claustrophobic, small-scale affair, reducing the outsized ambitions of Dune franchise.
- Where Dune: Part One and Part Two paid off a cosmos-wide, multi-millennia master plan, Prophecy's first season gave us sub-Game of Thrones intrigue and a vaguely defined threat.
- Schapker and co. fuss over the how and the why of it all, failing to grasp that the more granular Dune: Prophecy becomes, the further away from Villeneuve's (and Herbert's) big ideas it gets.
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