Diane Ademu-John (The Haunting of Bly Manor) has been tapped as the new showrunner for HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood, Deadline has confirmed. She replaces Jon Spaihts, who stepped down in November 2019 to focus on writing the script for the new Dune feature film.
Dune: The Sisterhood, based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune and the popular sci-fi franchise it spawned, received a straight-to-series order from the WarnerMedia streaming service.
Herbert’s Dune portrays a future in which humanity has spread across the galaxy to thousands of worlds, all ruled by the Padishah Emperor, The Imperium. Dune: The Sisterhood explores this universe through the eyes of a mysterious order of women: the Bene Gesserit.
2020-21 HBO Max Pilots & Series Orders
Ademu-John will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Denis Villeneuve, who is directing, co-writing and producing the new Dune film, also is set to executive produce the...
Dune: The Sisterhood, based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune and the popular sci-fi franchise it spawned, received a straight-to-series order from the WarnerMedia streaming service.
Herbert’s Dune portrays a future in which humanity has spread across the galaxy to thousands of worlds, all ruled by the Padishah Emperor, The Imperium. Dune: The Sisterhood explores this universe through the eyes of a mysterious order of women: the Bene Gesserit.
2020-21 HBO Max Pilots & Series Orders
Ademu-John will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Denis Villeneuve, who is directing, co-writing and producing the new Dune film, also is set to executive produce the...
- 7/22/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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