Alison Schapker talks to The Hollywood Reporter about how the end of the Great Machine Wars 116 years earlier informs the fraught world of the Max series' dual timeline.
The six-episode series about the origin of the mysterious Bene Gesserit changed creative leadership a few different times until Schapker and Diane Ademu-John became co-creators and co-showrunners. When production began in late 2022, Schapker then took on the role of sole showrunner through its delivery to the network. It was familiar territory for the scribe, having most recently served as an executive producer onany sooner.
“When we go to Arrakis, the sandworms have a similar design, so Denis was kind enough to bless that overlap,” Schapker shares. “But we also wanted to go to our own corners of thethe planet of Wallach IX where the Bene Gesserit’s — or the Sisterhood as they’re currently titled — headquarters and school were founded. The series primarily takes place 10,148 years before the birth of Paul Atreides , exploring the ancestry of his Harkonnen mother — and Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother — Lady Jessica .
Absolutely. We loved Mr. Eko. We thought he was a fantastic character, and it’s always hard to do that. All television storytelling is collaborative. You take direction, and Damon and Carlton had clear ideas of what they wanted to do in that episode. So we just tried to realize it as best we could, but we were definitely sad to see Mr. Eko go.season four was the finest season of the series.
They’re a young institution at a time where society is literally coming out of the shadow of this interstellar war. It set humanity back, and, as it says in the books, humans came to the brink of extinction. So they’re afraid of this technology and artificial intelligence that turned into their machine oppressors. They’ve now banned thinking machine technology, but that’s left them with all these gaps.
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