Travis Fimmel in the HBO Max prequel series Dune: The Sisterhood

HBO Max Dune: The Sisterhood cast his first guy.

Travis Fimmel, who led viking for several seasons and more recently he starred in HBO Max’s Two-and-done Raised by wolves Sci-fi drama has joined the prequel series, reports our sister site Variety.

Dune: The Sisterhood is intended to act as a companion series to the new one dune Film franchise as it depicts the events of the Frank Herbert novels through the eyes of the Bene Gesserit, a mysterious religious order of women. As previously reported, Emily Watson (Chernobyl) will play Valya Harkonnen, while Shirley Henderson (happy valley) will play Tula Harkonnen – two sisters who “have risen to power in the Sisterhood, a secret organization of women who later become the Bene Gesserit.”

Per Variety, Fimmel will play Desmond Hart, a “charismatic soldier with a mysterious past who seeks to gain the Emperor’s trust at the Sisterhood’s expense.”

The cast of the prequel series also includes Indira Varma (game of Thrones), Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (story knight case), Shalom Brune Franklin (HBO Max’s The tourist), Aoife Hinds (normal people), Chloé Lea (Foundation, endowment) and Faoileann Cunningham (The Northman).

“The Bene Gesserit have always fascinated me,” says Denis Villeneuve, director of the new one dune film franchise and an EP The Sisterhoodsaid in 2019. “Focusing a series on this powerful order of women seemed not only relevant and inspiring, but also a dynamic framework for the television series.”

Dune: Part One premiered in theaters last October while Dune: Part Two scheduled for release on November 17, 2023.