Dune Awakening inventive director Joel Bylos revealed throughout a press Q&A earlier this month that “a bunch of constraints” had been put in place for the workforce as a part of its collaboration with Hollywood. This, it seems, was one of many core the reason why the sport takes place in an alternate historical past.
“We have labored very intently with the Villeneuve workforce and Legendary leisure, and dealing with the workforce that makes the flicks. In fact Dune has impressed motion pictures, TV reveals, video video games, graphic novels, music and extra[…] We determined to attempt to tackle this legacy to carry a brand new Dune sport to the world. Which means working with Hollywood in the course of the energetic growth of two-to-three movies.”
Bylos continues: “This implies we [had] a bunch of constraints positioned on us, proper at first of the mission. We weren’t allowed to point out the Fremen. We weren’t allowed to point out something that will spoil the plots of the movies. We needed to keep away from the reveal of any main characters earlier than the movies did. We needed to keep away from any and all spoilers about Paul Atreides.”
Nevertheless, it is right here that Bylos elaborates on how these boundaries established by the Hollywood entities in the end led him and the workforce to pursue the alternate historical past strategy gamers will (hopefully) be capable to expertise themselves. “As a inventive myself, I like constraints. They result in freedom. They result in us having to resolve issues in attention-grabbing methods. That is our resolution to the constraints that had been placed on us for this mission.”
Following this assertion, Bylos performed the Dune Awakening story cinematic launched a couple of months in the past, through which Paul explains it is a future the place he was by no means born. Bylos elaborates: “So, an alternate model of the story informed by Frank Herbert, primarily based within the lore from Frank Herbert.” This various retelling pivots from the books in that Girl Jessica chooses to have a daughter (Ariste), relatively than a son (Paul).
How this all performs out is the massive narrative thriller going into Dune Awakening. How will Arrakis adapt to a struggle between Harkonnen and Atreides with out Paul’s presence, how will Jessica’s daughter Ariste play a component, and the place does the participant match into all of this? We’ll have to attend and discover out!
