Ashley Walters, Indira Varma and Tom Hollander have all joined the cast of Dune: Prophecy for the second season. No word on who they are playing, but Indira Varma was originally cast as Empress Natalya in the first season and had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict, being replaced by Jodhi May:

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/dune-prophecy-season-2-ashley-walters-cast-filming-starts-1236574687/

‘Dune: Prophecy’: Ashley Walters, Indira Varma and Tom Hollander Join Season 2 as Filming BeginsVariety

TLDR: Totally amazing, what a talent Dan is, loads of fun and a laugh, and it's been getting good numbers so you're in a room full of "our people" instead of just chatting online! It's on daily until August 24th so if you're able to, get your arse along there.

Went to see this on Sunday 10th August 2025 at the Edinburgh Fringe. It's a nice little one-hour middle-of-the-day show which worked well for my old bones, plus the Voodoo Rooms had some really comfy seating on the side. My partner came too, and she hasn't read the book yet, only seen the DV films, and she enjoyed the hell out of every minute too.

This show is one man telling the story of Dune - the book not the film - with a few cheeky jokes for the true afficionado to laugh at referencing but not spoiling subsequent books.

Dan is truly multi-talented: the singing, acting, guitar-playing and song-writing are all superb. I was expecting it to be more of a semi-canonical telling of Gurney Halleck's life but it's more Gurney Halleck telling key plot points from the book on his "baliset" through song. We all have our personal favourite plot scenarios from the book and Dan gets to pick his, so no complaints there, you get what you're given and you like it. He does include *that* well known Gurney line from the training room scene that was left out of the DV film.

When he acts out other characters it's brilliant. It's all about the boys; the female characters are just minor plot devices off stage for brief seconds - but again, Dan's show, Dan's choice. I guess I'd rather a male performer didn't try too hard on the excellent Dune women if he's not inclined to feel he can or wants to! I also want to mention that Dan is from Northern Ireland, and for me Gurney Halleck has always been a warrior bard in the mold of either Scotland or Ireland so his accent works really well for me.

The show is free and they collect voluntary donations after, and we wanted to fill the bucket (a normal bucket, not a Dune movie worm popcorn bucket although that would be funny) with cash. It's really cool what this collective is doing, making top quality Edinburgh Fringe shows free. There's also free merch (see photo) and a show CD which you pay for - you'll see two in my photo, one is a Christmas gift for a Dune fan friend for later this year. Was really nice to meet Dan, he's smaller up close than he appears on stage which is a testament to the power of his performance!

Anyway, we laughed, we didn't really cry, but the way Dan rounds it off with such a poignant song, it left me with the same feeling that finishing the book gives me - like that was quite a ride, but now I feel the ineffable poignant sadness of being human and being alive and everything, everything.

www.edfringe.com

I miss the golden days of Dune when they were all a united family and there wasn't a god damn half worm bitch terrorizing everyone 😞

Chani I haven't forgotten about you my girl.

Me during the whole book:

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