The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.
- Awards
- 12 wins & 27 nominations
Salvador Dalí
- Self
- (archive footage)
Jean 'Moebius' Giraud
- Self - Artist - Dune
- (archive footage)
- (as Jean Giraud)
Magma
- Themselves
- (archive footage)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHollywood studios would only let Alejandro Jodorowsky make the film provided that it would be 1h 50 mins long. Jodorowsky declined, reportedly stating that he wanted to make approximately a 15 hour long film. This is a common misconception- he never planned that the actual movie was going to be 15-20 hours, he made this statement in a fit of passion that his artistry would not be confined or compromised by a running time restriction (the studios were asking for 90-120 min running time for profit reasons) asserting that he will make the film as long as he wants it to be, and not because some suit wants more money. While the "Dune Book" being a massive tome; held a script, a full storyboard, and numerous conceptual designs and art work with a budget breakdown it's easy to assume and misconstrued that the finished product would have been over 12 hours.
- Quotes
Alejandro Jodorowsky: What is the goal of the life? It's to create yourself a soul. For me, movies are an art... more than an industry. And its the search of the human soul... as painting, as literature, as poetry. Movies are that for me.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Half in the Bag: 2014 Movie Catch-up: Part 2 (2014)
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The Greatest Movie Never Made
This documentary tells the story of director Alejandro Jodorowsky's unfinished masterpiece: his attempt to produce a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's sprawling science-fiction novel 'Dune' in the mid-1970s -- a project which was never completed, in part because it collapsed under the weight of the director's incredibly ambitious vision for the movie. It was to have been a larger-than-life epic, as grand as Stanley Kubrick's '2001.'
All that survives of Jodorowsky's 'Dune' are the script, storyboards, and concept artwork. Using these, combined with talking-heads interviews of those involved, the documentary tries to show us how the finished film would have looked.
What makes all this so captivating are the interviews with Jodorowsky himself, and his incredible passion as he recounts the tale of an unfinished project from 40 years ago. Entering into Jodorowsky's world is like falling into a visionary dream where anything and everything is possible. And as his vision progresses, it becomes more and more ambitious: Salvador Dalì, Mick Jagger, and Orson Welles agree to star. Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger will design the sets and costumes. Pink Floyd will provide the score. It's hard to imagine a more ambitious movie, considering the technical limitations of the time.
Yet, as the documentary shows, the ripples from this never-completed, ahead-of-its-time film spread out in many directions, inspiring different ideas that made their way into later films such as 'Star Wars' and 'Alien' -- and which continue to inspire filmmakers today.
All that survives of Jodorowsky's 'Dune' are the script, storyboards, and concept artwork. Using these, combined with talking-heads interviews of those involved, the documentary tries to show us how the finished film would have looked.
What makes all this so captivating are the interviews with Jodorowsky himself, and his incredible passion as he recounts the tale of an unfinished project from 40 years ago. Entering into Jodorowsky's world is like falling into a visionary dream where anything and everything is possible. And as his vision progresses, it becomes more and more ambitious: Salvador Dalì, Mick Jagger, and Orson Welles agree to star. Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger will design the sets and costumes. Pink Floyd will provide the score. It's hard to imagine a more ambitious movie, considering the technical limitations of the time.
Yet, as the documentary shows, the ripples from this never-completed, ahead-of-its-time film spread out in many directions, inspiring different ideas that made their way into later films such as 'Star Wars' and 'Alien' -- and which continue to inspire filmmakers today.
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- Apr 21, 2014
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- «Дюна» Ходоровського
- Filming locations
- The Domes, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA(Scenes deleted)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $647,280
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,018
- Mar 23, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $662,736
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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