Since it's the day before Refn's "Only God Forgives" (dedicated to cult fillmmaker Jodorowsky) I figured i'd make a thread revealing (to those that didn't know) Jodorowsky's original idea and plans for the Dune movie in the 1970s.
Jodorowsky is known primarily for the acid Western "El Topo" which was a main influence in Suda51 creating the game "No More Heroes".
He followed up on "El Topo" with "The Holy Mountain" which was actually produced with the help of John Lennon, who was such a hardcore "El Topo" fan that he contributed 1 million to creating Alejandro's psychedelic mindfuck of a movie.
In 1974, after "The Holy Mountain", rights were bought to Dune. Jodorowsky was asked to direct. This was the result:
In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Frank Herberts epic 1965 science fiction novel Dune and asked Jodorowsky to direct a film version.
In the role of the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, Jodorowsky planned to cast the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, who requested a fee of $100,000 per hour. He also planned to cast Orson Welles as the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen; Welles only agreed when Jodorowsky offered to get his favourite gourmet chef to prepare his meals for him throughout the filming.
The book's protagonist, Paul Atreides, was to be played by Jodorowsky's own son, Brontis Jodorowsky. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen.Jodorowsky set up a pre-production unit in Paris consisting of Chris Foss, a British artist who designed covers for science fiction publications, Jean Giraud (Moebius), a French illustrator who created and also wrote and drew for Metal Hurlant magazine, and H. R. Giger.
Frank Herbert travelled 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 movie ("It was the size of a phonebook", Herbert later recalled). Jodorowsky took creative liberties with the source material, but Herbert said that he and Jodorowsky had an amicable relationship.
The production for the film collapsed, and the rights for filming were sold once more, this time to Dino de Laurentiis, who employed the American filmmaker David Lynch to direct, creating the film Dune in 1984.
Jodorowsky is known primarily for the acid Western "El Topo" which was a main influence in Suda51 creating the game "No More Heroes".
He followed up on "El Topo" with "The Holy Mountain" which was actually produced with the help of John Lennon, who was such a hardcore "El Topo" fan that he contributed 1 million to creating Alejandro's psychedelic mindfuck of a movie.
In 1974, after "The Holy Mountain", rights were bought to Dune. Jodorowsky was asked to direct. This was the result:
In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Frank Herberts epic 1965 science fiction novel Dune and asked Jodorowsky to direct a film version.
In the role of the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, Jodorowsky planned to cast the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, who requested a fee of $100,000 per hour. He also planned to cast Orson Welles as the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen; Welles only agreed when Jodorowsky offered to get his favourite gourmet chef to prepare his meals for him throughout the filming.
The book's protagonist, Paul Atreides, was to be played by Jodorowsky's own son, Brontis Jodorowsky. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen.Jodorowsky set up a pre-production unit in Paris consisting of Chris Foss, a British artist who designed covers for science fiction publications, Jean Giraud (Moebius), a French illustrator who created and also wrote and drew for Metal Hurlant magazine, and H. R. Giger.
Frank Herbert travelled 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 movie ("It was the size of a phonebook", Herbert later recalled). Jodorowsky took creative liberties with the source material, but Herbert said that he and Jodorowsky had an amicable relationship.
The production for the film collapsed, and the rights for filming were sold once more, this time to Dino de Laurentiis, who employed the American filmmaker David Lynch to direct, creating the film Dune in 1984.
