Jodorowsky's Dune is a 2013 American-French documentary film directed by Frank Pavich. The film explores cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky 's unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert 's 1965 science fiction novel Dune in the mid-1970s.

Mar 20, 2023 · Dune has had quite a hard time getting onto the big screen, with one intended movie version featuring Salvador Dalí as the central antagonist.

Apr 10, 2021 · Adaptations of Frank Herbert's Dune don't seem to have much luck. Unfortunately, there's a long history of failures in the Duninverse that stem back to the '70s. David Lynch's adaptation flopped in 1984, there was a failed mini-series, and now Denis Villeneuve’s new Dune remake has been pushed back several times.

Mar 14, 2019 · Jodorowsky chose a science-fiction novel, Dune. When Seydoux agreed, Jodorowsky realised that he’d now have to sit down and read it. Published in 1965, Herbert’s novel chronicles the battle for...

Dune (Alexandro Jodorowsky) is a cancelled movie proposed by Chilean-French cult film director and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky, and produced by French businessman Michel Seydoux, in 1974. This production became the subject of a documentary released in 2013, Jorodowsky's Dune.

Mar 13, 2003 · "I first heard about 'Dune' through Bob Venosa, an American painter of fantastic realism who lived in Cadaqués with his family and was a frequent visitor at Salvador Dali's house. It was a project for a three hour 70 mm science fiction film, in which Dali was to play a leading role for a fee of $100,000 an hour (he was later invited to leave ...

Mar 22, 2014 · Scott Simon spoke to Frank Pavich about Jodorowsky's Dune, his new documentary about filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's failed 1970s attempt to make an adaptation of the bestselling sci-fi novel.

Jan 18, 2010 · In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Dune from Arthur P. Jacobs. Jodorowsky was set to direct. In 1975, Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten hour feature, in collaboration with Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé ...

Mar 21, 2014 · In 1974, more or less, Alejandro Jodorowsky thought of making a movie of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune. Jodorowsky, Chilean by birth, had made El Topo in 1970, a surreal Western,...

Alejandro's DUNE would star his own 12 year old son, Brontis Jodorowsky, alongside a cast to include Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and even Salvador Dali.