Dune: Prophecy season 2 release date, cast and what we know so far

(Oath. note: This story contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy season 1.)

Dune: Prophecy has blown it all up. Not literally – but in a season that started with cautious backroom deals and manipulations, Prophecy‘s finale, which lays all the maneuvering out in the open, is a dramatic shift in tone for the series. As Season 1 ends with Valya (Emily Watson) fleeing to Arrakis with Princess Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) and Keiran Atreides (Chris Mason), the table is definitely set for an epic interplanetary war. (This is Dune, after all.)

And with some dramatic introductions and exits (more on that below), the way forward for the Bene Gesserit is in Dune: Prophecy is less clear than ever. So what will a second season bring to Imperium? Here’s everything we know about Dune: Prophecy‘s season 2.

Is Dune: Prophecy Season 2 On?

Dune: Prophecy coming back for another season. Warner Bros. announced that the show would return for Season 2 on Thursday, just a few days before the Season 1 finale. It was not announced how many episodes this new season would be.

When is Dune: Prophecy Season 2 coming out?

This is something else that Warner Bros. not announced so we have no real idea when this new season might be released. It’s technically possible that filming has already started, but pretty unlikely. If that’s how the schedule worked out, then the show could return for a second season next year. But it’s much more likely to film next year and be ready for a 2026 release. This pattern would also fit similar recent Warner Bros. shows, including The last of us and House of the Dragon.

What will Dune: Prophecy season 2 be about?

The season 1 finale of the show offers a surprisingly clear blueprint for season 2’s plot. For example, we know the Emperor is dead, and the Bene Gesserit will likely be blamed for it. We know that Desmond Hart is alive and that his eye is an infectious disease robot, and that learning his true parentage didn’t seem to soften his hatred of the Bene Gesserit either.

Meanwhile, inside the Sisterhood’s home base, there is a rebellion led by the spirit of a venerable mother who possesses the body of a young acolyte – so who knows where that plot will go.

Embedded at the heart of it all is the betrayal between Valya and Tula (Olivia Williams), with the latter finally revealing that her son survived birth and she hid him — and now knows he’s turned into Desmond Hart. Learning such a massive betrayal from a sister she thought was in line with the Sisterhood’s vision is quite a shock to the couple who lead the order, to say the least. “It’s blown everything up, but I think Valya probably still holds ‘I am the chosen one, I have destiny’ – (it) is still her guide,” Watson said at a press conference ahead of the finale. “(And) I think Valya’s instinct is to run after the shadows.”

It’s certainly a change for the sisters – especially with Tula immediately arrested by her own son and his Imperium soldiers. With all that in mind, there are definitely other plots that have started up in the show’s second season, but at least it’s a pretty complicated place to start from. Especially since with Reverend Valya’s arrival on Arrakis, it’s not entirely clear whether she wants to stop a war or start one.

“After a season in which Arrakis had practiced his move from afar (…) to actually go and put boots on the ground in this incredibly overdetermined and almost mythical dune area that we know very well, but we kept it at a distance. the whole season,” showrunner Alison Schapker said at a press conference, “it’s very important that Valya is back there.

“All I’m going to say is that I think Valya is there; I think Valya is going to find out a lot more because she’s kind of back where Desmond kind of appeared up as an opponent. And (it will be) interesting to see what she finds out there.”

Will Dune 3 come out before Dune: Prophecy’s new season?

This is a very good question. Dune 3 is currently set for release on December 18th, 2026. So if everything goes just right, Prophecy season 2 could hit somewhere around September or October 2026, providing a perfect lead-in to the release of the new movie. On the other hand, if the timelines come out of the shadows, we could have a similar situation to what happened this year, with a new Dune movie hitting theaters and the TV show following in its wake by about nine months later.