GURNEY (CONT'D)
19.
For eighty years Arrakis belonged
to House Harkonnen! Eighty years!
Owning the spice fields! Can you
imagine the wealth? Now they are
losing Arrakis... to us. You need
to be ready. -- Your eyes. I need
to see it in your eyes! You never
met Harkonnens before. I have.
They're not human. In the slave
pits of Geidi Prime, Rabban
Harkonnen himself killed my family
and he gave me this scar to
remember him by.
He fingers the inkvine whip scar along his jawline.
GURNEY (CONT'D)
And I will never forget.
19 SPACE - GIEDI PRIME 19
A charcoal-gray world orbits a cold blue sun.
SUPER: GIEDI PRIME - HOMEWORLD OF HOUSE HARKONNEN
20A EXT. CITYSCAPE OF GEIDI PRIME’S CAPITAL 20A
A synthetic megalopolis with rivers of plastic. A ship is
landing inside some artificial mountain.
21A INT. HARKONNEN PALACE - CORRIDOR - DAY 21A
“BEAST” RABBAN HARKONNEN strides down a passageway.
He is a giant, raised in Harkonnen savagery. For him, cruelty
is not a choice but the way of the world. The strong survive.
He passes masked guards. Terrified slaves standing against
the walls like furniture. These things are ordinary to him.
21B HARKONNEN BATHS 21B
Rabban strides into the palace’s richly tiled bath-house. A
wide doorway looks into a STEAM ROOM filled with white vapor.
Outside the steam room stands PITER DE VRIES, a human
stiletto. He is a MENTAT, his mind trained to superhuman
acuity -- and dedicated to sadism in all its forms.
As Rabban walks up, Piter nods at the steam room. In there.
GURNEY (CONT'D)
19.
