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Thank Christ this never got made!

posted 7 years ago by SinisterCreep
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From what i've read Jodorowsky wanted to ditch a lot of what Herbert wrote plus other bad things too like the casting. Lynch's film might have had it's faults but this sounds like an absolute disaster.

Walking on water is like finding a non fake female profile on a dating site...a miracle!

[–] michaeldinan 7 years ago

Stanley Kubrick's the shining. That's all I have to say.

[–] einstein (2293) 4 years ago

at least stanley read the book, alejandro admitted that he never read the book. he never read dune, and was proud of it

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 3 years ago

Kubrick saying he read the book doesn't mean much when his own film adaptation is as accurate to the source as The Bourne Identity is to its own.

[–] einstein (2293) 3 years ago

sure, good point, but at least being familiar with the original material does make more sense than just ignoring it completely.

[–] thingmakersback (1183) 4 years ago

Agreed. Jodorowsky is a hell of an artist, but totally the wrong man for the job. I love his surreal films and I even like The Rainbow Thief (the one film where he was forced to make ordinary narrative with a touch of fantasy), but no, I love Dune, I lovescience fiction and I love straight narrative.

[–] degray9 (1126) 3 years ago

It was thanks to this movie never getting made that everyone who worked on it went on to make “Alien.” So thank Christ indeed