Jodorowsky's Dune
The greatest science fiction movie never made.
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
Timing:
1:30 (90 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Documentary
Budget
$0
Revenue
$647 280
Director
Actors
Alejandro Jodorowsky, H. R. Giger, Brontis Jodorowsky, Nicolas Winding Refn, Amanda Lear, Richard Stanley, Devin Faraci, Michel Seydoux, Chris Foss, Drew McWeeny
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Frank Pavich, Travis Stevens, Stephen Scarlata, Donald Rosenfeld
Operator
David Cavallo
Composer
Kurt Stenzel
Artist
Audition
Editing
Alex Ricciardi, Paul Docherty
All team (8)
All team (8)
Short description
Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
What's left behind the scenes
- 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.
- 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."
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