Director Denis Villeneuve succeeded in bringing one of the most unadaptable sci-fi franchises to the big screen with Duneand ...

Swedish actor and "Mamma Mia" star Stellan Skarsgård wants to address the 600-pound villain ... throughout "Dune" (in theaters and HBO Max Thursday), including a stream bath. "Harkonnen is ...

While our first installment highlighted House Atreides and the second focused on the Fremen, this one showcases House Harkonnen, the tyrannical villains of Dune. Dune takes place thousands of ...

Baron Harkonnen's sexuality in Frank Herbert's Dune reflects harmful stereotypes about LGBTQ+ people. Many previous adaptations of Herbert's work struggled with how to depict the Baron, and they ...

Among other things, Goldberg discussed the appeal of Dune: Prophecy, what it brings to the table, and its heroes and villains. Strap in for a show whose hero, Valya Harkonnen, is all hard edges ...

A foil to the hero Paul Atreides, the scheming nephew of the villainous Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) wasn’t even mentioned. A “Dune” devotee himself since his teenage years ...

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Though House Atreides is not the centerpiece of Dune ... become the villains we know them as, but it was also exciting to play with the idea of how some of those seeds of Harkonnen-ness were ...