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"Jodorowsky's Dune"
A "lost" Sci-fi epic that was tantalisingly close to being made in the mid '70s, based on Frank Herbert's mind-bending series of novels from the far-out 60's.
It would have changed the game long before "Star Wars" appeared - and took fantasy cinema into a strange and excitingly weirder direction. The visual aesthetic alone would have been extraordinary.
The roster of talented visionaries assembled by the wonderfully eccentric Jodorowsky in his attempt to make the picture is extraordinary. Ridley Scott was to direct, hot from his Hovis commercials.
Pink Floyd were to produce the soundtrack.
Swiss surrealist sexoid HR Giger would be on the production design team, as well as French comics god Jean "Mobius" Giraud.
Chris Foss, the British art designer behind '79's "Alien" was attached to produce designs for the outlandish spacecraft, and indeed the writer of Alien, Dan O' Bannon was in there on script detail.
Salvador Dali was to appear as the "Emperor of the Universe", with Orson Welles as Baron Harkonnen and Mick Jagger as Feyd Rautha.
The documentary charts the fascinating journey of the (ultimately doomed) production in an enlightening and optimistic manner, with Jodorowsky's infectous enthusiasm and wildly animated manner a joy to observe.
Dune eventually was of course made by David Lynch in 1984, it was a huge loss at the box office- an interesting failure but strangely compelling.
The original attempt to lens it is a sad yet admirable failure which perhaps someday may be made. The documentary is superb, highly recommended. Always great to see oddball creative types go into one about their fabled ideas and visions.
A "lost" Sci-fi epic that was tantalisingly close to being made in the mid '70s, based on Frank Herbert's mind-bending series of novels from the far-out 60's.
It would have changed the game long before "Star Wars" appeared - and took fantasy cinema into a strange and excitingly weirder direction. The visual aesthetic alone would have been extraordinary.
The roster of talented visionaries assembled by the wonderfully eccentric Jodorowsky in his attempt to make the picture is extraordinary. Ridley Scott was to direct, hot from his Hovis commercials.
Pink Floyd were to produce the soundtrack.
Swiss surrealist sexoid HR Giger would be on the production design team, as well as French comics god Jean "Mobius" Giraud.
Chris Foss, the British art designer behind '79's "Alien" was attached to produce designs for the outlandish spacecraft, and indeed the writer of Alien, Dan O' Bannon was in there on script detail.
Salvador Dali was to appear as the "Emperor of the Universe", with Orson Welles as Baron Harkonnen and Mick Jagger as Feyd Rautha.
The documentary charts the fascinating journey of the (ultimately doomed) production in an enlightening and optimistic manner, with Jodorowsky's infectous enthusiasm and wildly animated manner a joy to observe.
Dune eventually was of course made by David Lynch in 1984, it was a huge loss at the box office- an interesting failure but strangely compelling.
The original attempt to lens it is a sad yet admirable failure which perhaps someday may be made. The documentary is superb, highly recommended. Always great to see oddball creative types go into one about their fabled ideas and visions.
