Max’s Dune spinoff series will start making more episodes “any day now.”
The show, called Dune: The Sisterhood, will continue to be made in Budapest while the SAG and WGA strikes are going on.
The show takes place in Frank Herbert’s Dune world. It is based on Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s book Dune: The Sisterhood and takes place 10,000 years before the events in the movie that Denis Villeneuve just made.
In the series, the Harkonnen Sisters will try to save the world.
Sources told Deadline that production will resume imminently.
The source says that Olivia Williams and Jodhi May, who play in The Sisterhood, have contracts with British Equity, but that SAG-AFTRA actors are “also in the mix.”
Even though SAG members who work on Equity shows can strike, studios could sue them in the UK because of rules against strikes.
This week, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which includes 160,000 TV and movie actors, said that they would go on strike because big companies had not offered a good enough pay deal.
They joined the protests of screenwriters who have been going on for more than 70 days.
The goal of the talks was to find a better way to split the profits from streaming and to make sure that artificial intelligence (AI) would not be used to do the jobs of performers.
But after 12 days of tense talks, no deal was made on a new contract. This led the Sag-Aftra National Board to vote to go on strike on Thursday morning, July 13.
After a vote that led to a strike, the union told all of its members to stop working right away on all written film and TV around the world.
This means that the entertainment business is totally up in the air, and stars might not be able to promote or even start working on some of the biggest films of 2023 and 2024.
