Jodorowsky's Dune

[baragon2001x]

If this film had been made it would of been easily one of the best films ever created. Jodorowsky, Giger, Dali, Orson welles, and Moebius. You couldnt of gone wrong with this line up

[WakingParadise97]

jodo is an artistic genius. we should just erase lynch's dune and the miniseries from our minds and let him bring his own version to the screen, an immortal version.

[ThomasJeromeNewton]

In fact the metabaron saga is his take On his work On Dune but adapted to a new story

[14NSBM88]

Why didn't he made Dune comic book when he alredy had the sketches, the screenplay, the rights and comic book artist? He should do that, instead of Incal and similar stuff...

[JulioLeonFandinho]

@14NSBM88 Instead of Incal and the metabarons saga? are you crazy, that comics are so good as Dune

[Metamusik]

People who think this should be made today with CGI are missing the point. Go and actually watch "El Topo" and "Holy Mountain". Before you go on about what you can do with CGI, take a good look at what you can do with the REAL. Most modern CGI-feasts are dull and ugly as hell compared to what guys like Jodorowsky put out in the 70s.

[jpdt007]

Is there a way to get those story boards? have they been published?

[Johnlindsey289]

Yes this would have been better than David Lynch's 47 million dollar turd of an adaptation, i'm a hardcore Dune fan since i was 12 back in 93 when i read the books and disappointed by the movie. Now if only Ridley Scott would have done it then it would have been better but Lynch knows nothing of Dune. Can't wait for the 4-part big screen movie done by a director who cares about the novel.

[tyrannicoystercult]

ha! Magma would be an awesome choice for music in Dune, would be strange to see Lynch's version re-scored somehow

[01234V43210]

just hearing about all of the awesome shit they had lined up for this movie makes me sick. I wish it had happened.

[Charlyz4u]

This dude needs to make this movie, forget everyones else these guys had it right, and now that the technology is made, I think they should really do it. That looks totally futuristic.

[blastandboom]

what are you basing your CGI costs on???? CGI heavy movie budgets are huge and even adjusted for inflation cost more them shooting models.

[johnyzero2000]

With CGI and movies like Beowulf and Avatar plus companies like Pixar Jodorowsky's version of Dune could still be made for a fraction of the cost. Providing he keep his ego and budget in check.

[Audioepics]

This film may have been very interesting as an original work but I'm very happy it didn't happen as an adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. It is so ridiculously far removed from Herbert's vision it should never be called "Dune". "Hill Made Of Sand" perhaps, but not "Dune"

[sex6cult9revolution]

The presence of Peter Gabriel here also reminds us of another great "unmade" movie: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - which Gabriel wanted to recruit Jodorowsky for.

[cherchebruit]

"King shot" project was abandoned. "The sons of el topo" will be he's next movie.

[Scytale0facedancer]

woildve been the greatest movie ever imo

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

Dune could never be a film

a video game perhaps but not a film

[JuanbagGala]

Hey wow Jodorowsky yeah!! molto loco

Je t'aime Jodorowsky

[ThomasJeromeNewton]

he's doing king shot, plus spare me marilyn manson as a harkonnen

[filmfanatic99]

I find amusing how he says dune. 'Doone'

[cinemavirtualis]

I like the Lynch version for the most part, but I cant help thinking about the surrealistic masterpiece that Jodorowsky was working towards. Id give anything to track down the screenplay he created for it.

[ThomasJeromeNewton]

Jodo's version was going to be sexual, odd hwo that phallic imagery moved on to star wars

[Johnlindsey289]

@Aueneye

Well Dune by Lynch is a cult classic for the wrong reasons in a Showgirls kind of way. Us fans of the novel shun Lynch's abortion of an adaptation for it's a Lynch movie and NOT a dune adaptation, he was the wrong man. Jodorwsky or Ridley Scott could have been perfect but NO they hired David fucking Lynch, i'm glad that movie bombed and got bad reviews including Lynch disowning it as he refuses to speak of the movie or would walk out if Dune is ever mentioned to him.

[Aueneye]

@Johnlindsey289 : I disagree, at least in part. DL's Dune has an otherworldly feel to it, and it's satisfyingly dark and 'dangerous' in places. Definitely not Disney, which I think would have been the worst of all routes. I do however agree about R.Scott. I've often thought he would have been the best director to realise much of what Herbert imagined. I think Lynch disowned it and refused to talk about it primarily because it was a terrible experience. It was a failure, but a v. interesting one.

[Johnlindsey289]

@Aueneye

Well still Lynch's movie was still Showgirls in Space. I hope that made hollywood realize when it bombed at the box-office with audiences and critics is to NEVER EVER hire David Lynch to do big budget movies ever again. Do you think the new movie could be good like Lord of the Rings?

There has been plenty of Dune-esque movies over the years that captured the spirit of the novel such as Star Wars, Star Trek movies, Avatar, The Matrix movies, Stargate, The Dark Crystal etc.

[TheBackseatJesus]

@Johnlindsey289 The only reason why David Lynch's film bombed because he was forced to cut so much from it. It wasn't his fault AT ALL.

[Sadochrist]

@Aueneye When I was a child I fell in love with Dune from watching Lynch's version, since then I read the book, played some of the games of it, watched all movie adaptions. I don't know why Lynch's version was met with such a horrid outcome, I haven't watched it since a kid but from what I can remember it wasn't bad, it seems a hard story line to pull off in other formats for some reason, although the RPG game is pretty good. I think you're right about him not getting his full creative powers in

[miljenko1]

All in all, its a damn shame that they worked so hard, produced the script, the set designs, the concept art for characters, vehicles, environments, plus the storyboards, and yet the project was abandoned.

[miljenko1]

The only problem is that Dune, as an idea, after Star Wars (that was it's rip-off), Lynch's Dune and the Dune TV series doesn't look NEW anymore. This project, however, could be pursued as a fresh approach to the subject, the likes of which no one had seen in sci-fi cinema.

[ThomasJeromeNewton]

onto the metabarons then

[miljenko1]

Dunno bout Jodo's health, but I think HE COULD still do it. He has everything in place, and Moebius is still around. Orson Welles and Dali aren't, but he could find someone else. Plus, with CGI, he could do it at a fraction of the cost that would have been incurred if he had done it in the 70s. He would only have to agree to work with CGI, not insist on life-size spaceship props etc. I think with today's technology he could pursue his dream to the fullest.

[Johnlindsey289]

@miljenko1

There is another Dune movie in the works

[ROTTERDXM]

@miljenko1 I agree, he COULD still do it. The movie project itself, however, has served its purpose. All those involved grew and learned from it, and they touched many others who touched many others still... so even though it was never actually finished, it has had a real, tangible impact on this world and the people in it. :)