"It was a great undertaking to do the script," Jodorowsky says in the film. In particular, the Jodorowsky-assembled team of O'Bannon, Foss, Giger, and Giraud went on to collaborate on the 1979 film Alien. The film notes that Jodorowsky's script, extensive storyboards, and concept art were sent to all major film studios, and argues that these influenced and inspired later film productions, including Star Wars, the Alien series, Flash Gordon, the Terminator series, and The Fifth Element. Jodorowsky felt 10 to 14 hours would be more appropriate for the adaptation. Hollywood did not want the film's length to exceed two hours. Jodorowsky's refusal to compromise on Dune's running time was one main reason the film did not get made. Dalí accepted on condition that the plastic lookalike was donated to his museum, and that his throne was to be a toilet made up of two intersected dolphins. Jodorowsky accepted, but then reduced the Emperor’s scenes so that Dalí would be needed for no more than one hour with the rest of his lines spoken by a robotic lookalike. He asked for $100,000 per hour to act in the movie. Salvador Dalí was set to play the Emperor and claimed he wanted to be the highest-paid actor in Hollywood history. Content Īcclaimed comic artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud worked with Jodorowsky to create a storyboard composed of 3000 drawings that depicted the entire film. In January 2023, Pavich published an essay in The New York Times related to Jodorowsky's Dune (and more) that involved artwork generated by artificial intelligence (A.I.) programming. After two and a half years in development, the project ultimately stalled for financial reasons since $5 million was still missing to round off the $15-million total budget.Īfter the film rights lapsed in 1982, they were purchased by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, who eventually released the 1984 film Dune, directed by David Lynch. Jodorowsky took creative liberties with the source material, but Herbert said that he and Jodorowsky had an amicable relationship. Herbert traveled to Europe in 1976 to find that $2 million of the $9.5 million budget had already been spent in pre-production and that Jodorowsky's script would result in a 14-hour film ("It was the size of a phone book", Herbert later recalled). Jodorowsky intended his son Brontis, 12 years old at the start of pre-production, to star as Paul Atreides. Giger, Chris Foss and Jean Giraud for set and character design Dan O'Bannon for special effects and Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Mick Jagger, Udo Kier, Amanda Lear and others for the cast. Along with French producer Michel Seydoux, Jodorowsky proceeded to approach, among others, Virgin Records with the prog rock groups Tangerine Dream, Gong and Mike Oldfield before settling on Pink Floyd and Magma for some of the music artists H. In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights from APJ, with director Alejandro Jodorowsky set to direct. However, Jacobs died in 1973 before a film could be developed. In 1971, the production company Apjac International (APJ) headed by film producer Arthur P. The film explores cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune in the mid-1970s. Jodorowsky's Dune is a 2013 American-French documentary film directed by Frank Pavich.
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