Jodorowsky's Dune
Short description
Jodorowsky's Dune is a documentary about an adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1969 novel Dune that never reached the screen. In 1974, the Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to bring the book to cinemas, a project that consumed two years and substantial sums of money before collapsing. The people he gathered around him, among them artists and producers, kept working together afterwards, and their collaboration is presented as an influence on later science fiction filmmaking.
Frank Pavich directed the film, his first feature, followed years later by Bittersweet. Travis Stevens and Stephen Scarlata produced alongside him. Those appearing as themselves include Jodorowsky, the producers Michel Seydoux and Jean-Paul Gibon, the artists Chris Foss and H. R. Giger, and the actor Brontis Jodorowsky; twenty-two cast members are credited in total. The documentary runs eighty-seven minutes.
On IMDb it holds 8 out of 10 from roughly 29,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.8 out of 10 from about 775 votes, indicating a widely seen film with a strong audience following. A critics' rating of 8.1 out of 10 from 117 reviews places it slightly above those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Alejandro Jodorowsky planned to film "Dune" as early as the 1970s. The artistic design was created by artist Jean Giraud, the set design by H.R. Giger. Salvador Dalí agreed to play the role of the Padishah Emperor. The director intended to cast his son Brontis as Paul, David Carradine as Count Leto, Orson Welles as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, and Gloria Swanson as the Reverend Mother. An agreement was reached with Pink Floyd (music for the scenes of House Atreides) and Magma (for House Harkonnen) to write the soundtrack. As Jodorowsky himself later stated: "The project was sabotaged in Hollywood. It would have been French, not American – not 'Hollywood' enough. And then a blatant robbery began. Our storyboard circulated among all the major studios. Giraud, artist and illustrator Chris Foss, Giger, our screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, and others were involved in working on the film "Alien". Our project convinced the Americans that it was possible to make solid science fiction outside the framework of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Work on "Dune" changed a lot."
- Hollywood studios agreed to hire Alejandro Jodorowsky as the director of the 'Dune' adaptation (1963-1965) only on the condition that the film would be no longer than 1 hour and 50 minutes. Jodorowsky himself insisted the film would be around 15 hours long.
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