The preliminary evaluations and the Rotten Tomatoes rating for HBO’s upcoming sequence Dune: Prophecy are significantly subdued, in comparison with the Dune motion pictures. The present, happening 10,000 years earlier than the occasions of Dune (2021), serves as a prequel to Denis Villeneuve’s movies. It revolves across the formation of the legendary Bene Gesserit sect.
First Dune: Prophecy evaluations name it ‘Sport of Thrones in house’
The early reactions to Dune: Prophecy is combined to constructive, with evaluations drawing each flattering and unflattering comparisons between this sequence and Sport of Thrones, one other HBO present.
Ed Energy of The Daily Telegraph famous, “It appears like a minor miracle that Dune: Prophecy has made it to the display screen… An excellent greater shock is that it’s nice enjoyable — with the caveat that its religious predecessor is much less Dune than Sport of Thrones.”
In the meantime, Rolling Stone’s David Worry criticized Dune: Prophecy for “making an attempt so onerous to fill a [Game of Thrones]-but-in-space mandate that it typically forgets to serve its I.P. narrative duties whereas bending over backwards to please its company masters.”
Emlyn Travis of Entertainment Weekly was extra beneficiant towards the sequence. She hailed it as “a stable foray into the farther reaches of the Dune universe.”
Alternatively, Chase Hutchinson of TheWrap wrote, “This makes for not simply good tv, however the first steps of a promisingly daring new epic not even the Bene Gesserit may absolutely foresee.”
Based on Fandomwire’s Joshua Ryan, Dune: Prophecy “appears like an imitation, relatively than an enlargement, of the Denis Villeneuve-directed movies.”
Vicky Jessop of London Evening Standard pronounced Dune: Prophecy “attractive” however “dry.” She later added, “The top result’s a concoction that’s troublesome to digest – surprisingly so, given the great will generated by Denis Villeneuve’s movies. This rarefied world of nobles and witches wants more room to breathe – a sci-fi Sport of Thrones this isn’t.”
Dune: Prophecy’s Rotten Tomatoes rating isn’t nearly as good as the flicks
Dune: Prophecy has garnered a decrease Rotten Tomatoes rating than each the Dune motion pictures.
The upcoming sequence at the moment has an approval score of 73% on the assessment aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes after 26 evaluations. Compared, Dune: Half One (2021) has an approval score of 83% after 514 evaluations, and Dune: Half Two (2024) has a 92% approval score after 448 evaluations.
Dune: Prophecy premieres on HBO on November 17, 2024.
