Prophecy is going to help ease the wait for Dune: Messiah. An acting deck absolutely stacked from top to bottom w/ talent, against the sort of gorgeously depicted world building you'd expect from an HBO show.

Dune: Prophecy debuts on HBO on November 17th and while the series is an expansion of author Frank Herbert’s Dune franchise set 10,000 years before Paul Atreides’ story, the upcoming series is already drawing comparisons to another HBO series,

Thus is the age in which we live, where art that doesn't hit its quotas is made to seem like it never happened, but that only makes the arrival of "Dune: Prophecy" that much more peculiar. Here we have another sprawling, strange, science-fiction epic ...

Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Mark Strong lead the cast of a sci-fi drama set over 10,000 years before the events of the Denis Villeneuve-directed movies.