I'd have loved to have seen this...even if it were a train wreck.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140313-the-greatest-movie-never-made
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140313-the-greatest-movie-never-made
A failed but majestic dream...
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sabrinathecat
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[h=1]Jodorowsky’s Dune: The greatest movie never made?[/h]
Jodorowsky’s Dune – a science-fiction project seen as the forerunner to Alien – still has influence today. Tom Brook reports.
“For me, Dune will be the coming of a God.” So says Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who must have had an imagination of biblical proportions to dream up his big screen vision of Frank Herbert’s classic science-fiction novel. With a cast including Orson Welles, Mick Jagger and even Salvador Dalí, as well as a musical score by Pink Floyd, it has become one of the most famous movies never made.
“They never rolled camera... They storyboarded the entire film from beginning to end – 3,000 images,” says Frank Pavich, who has directed a documentary about the project. Jodorowsky’s Dune features interviews with the director, producer and artists who worked on the project. It shows that a failure can still be a source of inspiration.
The storyboard artwork was collected in a book and sent out to studios. Although they loved the idea, the eccentric Jodorowsky bewildered them – his earlier films included the ‘acid Western’ El Topo, and the surreal fable The Holy Mountain.
“Maybe the project was supposed to end there,” says Pavich. “And then those ideas came out of that book and started to infect the world to a certain extent, [to] inspire other films.”
Jodorowsky’s Dune was proposed in 1974, before Star Wars had proved that sci-fi films could be blockbusters, and is seen as the forerunner to movies like Alien and Bladerunner. Tom Brook investigates the enduring appeal of a vision that was ahead of its time.
Jodorowsky’s Dune – a science-fiction project seen as the forerunner to Alien – still has influence today. Tom Brook reports.
“For me, Dune will be the coming of a God.” So says Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who must have had an imagination of biblical proportions to dream up his big screen vision of Frank Herbert’s classic science-fiction novel. With a cast including Orson Welles, Mick Jagger and even Salvador Dalí, as well as a musical score by Pink Floyd, it has become one of the most famous movies never made.
“They never rolled camera... They storyboarded the entire film from beginning to end – 3,000 images,” says Frank Pavich, who has directed a documentary about the project. Jodorowsky’s Dune features interviews with the director, producer and artists who worked on the project. It shows that a failure can still be a source of inspiration.
The storyboard artwork was collected in a book and sent out to studios. Although they loved the idea, the eccentric Jodorowsky bewildered them – his earlier films included the ‘acid Western’ El Topo, and the surreal fable The Holy Mountain.
“Maybe the project was supposed to end there,” says Pavich. “And then those ideas came out of that book and started to infect the world to a certain extent, [to] inspire other films.”
Jodorowsky’s Dune was proposed in 1974, before Star Wars had proved that sci-fi films could be blockbusters, and is seen as the forerunner to movies like Alien and Bladerunner. Tom Brook investigates the enduring appeal of a vision that was ahead of its time.
Thanks for that!
sabrinathecat
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Homicidal_Squirrel
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I wonder when we'll see a new remake.
Once upon a time, I predicted that the existence of the Sci-Fi channel- now SyFy- would eventually lead to more genre fiction on TV, including their own original programming. I went so far as to say that Sci-Fi would make some of the giant names of genre fiction into good miniseries. Dune was one of the properties I thought they'd go for, since its epic scope lends itself to serial storytelling.
Well...I got some of that right. But having seen what they did to Earthsea, I have no conficpdence that the current leadership of SyFy could handle Dune without utterly ruining it.
Well...I got some of that right. But having seen what they did to Earthsea, I have no conficpdence that the current leadership of SyFy could handle Dune without utterly ruining it.
Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
There was this Dune TV series. Not great.
Ah, yes- my mind had blotted that one out.
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