FR, USA |2013 | 1h 30′ | documentary
In 1974, Alejandro Jodorowsky began working on possibly the most ambitious film ever attempted — a feature adaptation of Frank Herbert’s DUNE. Jodorowsky was making not only a film, but “a prophet”. His end goal was to “change the world”. For two years, Jodo and his team of ‘Spiritual Warriors’ worked night and day on the massive task of creating the fabulous world of DUNE. In order to secure the necessary Hollywood funding, they created over 3,000 storyboards, numerous paintings, incredible costumes, and an outrageous, moving, and powerful screenplay.
In the words of Jodorowsky’s producer, Michel Seydoux, “It should have been enough. But it wasn’t.”.“I believe that people didn’t do this film in America because they were scared of him. They were afraid of his imagination, they were afraid of his mind and they were afraid of what it was going to do to them.” (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the story of this amazing movie never made. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It was one of the Best Reviewed Films of 2014, it won Numerous Awards and was even short-listed for a Best Documentary Oscar.
CREDITS:
Director: Jim Henson
Screenplay: Terry Jones
Story by: Dennis Lee, Jim Henson
Produced by: Eric Rattray
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly
Cinematography: Alex Thomson
Edited by: John Grover
Music by: Trevor Jones
Production companies: Henson Associates, Lucasfilm Ltd.
Distributed by: Tri-Star Pictures (United States), Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors (United Kingdom)
