Jodorowsky's DUNE

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I'm definitely looking forward to this one. :yes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-oBEGF7uwE

It was announced today (May 12, 2011) that L.A. based Snowfort Pictures, Camera One of France and Koch Media of Germany have begun production on Frank Pavich's sci-fi documentary JODOROWSKY'S DUNE. Shooting has wrapped in France, Switzerland and the U.K. with filming to continue this summer in the United States. Picture will be completed by late fall.

The documentary covers cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky and his 1974 attempt to create a big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal science fiction novel, DUNE. While the ambitious production collapsed after two years, Jodorowsky's team of then relatively unknown concept artists continued exploring the themes and styles started on the project and ended up changing modern science fiction forever: H.R. Giger went on to Ridley Scott's masterpiece ALIEN, Dan O'Bannon wrote ALIEN and TOTAL RECALL, Jean "Moebius" Giraud created artwork and futuristic worlds for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, TRON, and THE FIFTH ELEMENT and Chris Foss would go on to work on ALIEN and SUPERMAN.

Jodorowsky, whose films SANTE SANGRE, EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN have recently been released on Blu-Ray in the U.S. and who can currently be seen acting in Kamen Kalev's THE ISLAND which screens in the Director's Fortnight, is excited to share his vision of what might have been, "Failure simply makes you change your way. And I hope, in this picture, the audience will be able to see what I did. It's an incredible world."

Director/Producer Pavich researched JODOROWSKY'S DUNE with producer Stephen Scarlata. The two previously worked together on the cult-underground music documentary N.Y.H.C. Pavich also co-produced DIE MOMMIE DIE (Special Jury Prize - Sundance 2003) before concentrating on television production. Scarlata has mainly focused on feature screenplays. The film is being produced by Travis Stevens of Snowfort Pictures (A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE), executive produced by Donald Rosenfeld, who has Terrence Malick's THE TREE OF LIFE in competition at the festival and co-produced with Michel Seydoux of Camera One, who have Alain Cavalier's PATER screening in competition.

Stevens in announcing the production said: "This is a rare, intimate look at the creative process of one of history's most mind-blowing filmmakers. The access he afforded us was incredible. We're excited to be partnered with Camera-One and Koch Media in order to share it with the world."

Moritz Peters of Koch Media adds: "Fans of Jodorowsky, Giger, O'Bannon and the rest of the artists will now have a chance to see how they approach their work. We're avid supporters of adventurous sci-fi films, and happy to be co-producing one that covers such a fantastic subject."

With interviews completed with Alejandro Jodorowsky, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Michel Seydoux, and the surviving original team, the production heads to the U.S. to conduct interviews with industry executives, filmmakers and film critics to put the film into perspective.

Adds Pavich, "I am incredibly grateful that we are the ones who are getting to tell the story of this never-realized film from one of the world's greatest film directors. We hope to be able to impart to the audience a taste of what Jodorowsky's version of Dune might have been like."

More information at:
http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/
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Anyone here seen it already?
 
Oh man I'm in. I'm thinking I could listen to this guy all day. Or, how about all night...over a bottle of wine. Okay, over a few bottles of wine. ;)
 
I like Dune. I like everyone who was involved with this. I love the books (some more than others, but even the two post-Frank books are worth reading. The prequels however....) I like Lynch's Dune, despite no one, including Lynch, liking it. Problematic in ways (the rain at the end, the weirding way being turned into some sort of amplified voice wristband thing), but beautiful. I like the TV Dune, though not as much as other Dune fans seem to (in some ways closer to the books, but in others just as off as Lynch's film. And some acting and effects that were, well, clearly made for TV)

Anyway, I'd love to see this; the most I've seen is a couple photos over the years, and H.R. Giger sells the chairs he designed for it (http://www.hrgiger.com/chairs.htm if anyone is looking to buy me a birthday present)
 
richy said:
Oh man I'm in. I'm thinking I could listen to this guy all day. Or, how about all night...over a bottle of wine. Okay, over a few bottles of wine. ;)
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Likewise! :bow:

I need to see El Topo at some point. I've seen Santa Sangre (twice?) and Holy Mountain, which is an incredible film.

As an unabashed Lynch fan, I liked a lot of what he did with Dune, but in many ways he was a bit out of his element and probably wasn't best suited for the source material.

re: Jodo's DUNE, there's always something sad about watching a documentary about a director's failed attempt at making a film, whether they are a well known director (Lost in La Mancha) or micro budget nobodies (American Movie.) Still, it's on my list. :yes:
 
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or micro budget nobodies (American Movie.)
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Yeah, that depressed me. But I did take some notes and learned things from watching that film. The kind of movie that filmmakers need to watch. Interestingly enough, he starred in a movie a few years back that looks pretty decent. I might have to give it a look.
 
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I must admit it was funny... but I remember finishing the movie and thinking about if that was me :scared:
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I spent way too much time laughing at how clueless the guy was to ever think it was about me.

I don't remember the exact numbers anymore. but the dude was confident he was going to sell like 2000 copies of his short film for $20 each :lol:

Then when they won a scratch off for $20 … he wants to blow it all on beer. Amazingly he didn't want to go out and buy someone else's short film with the money instead
 
Saw it a couple of weeks ago. Fascinating. I wonder if his version of Dune was ever made, if it could ever possibly live up to the grand vision behind it. Like when something is so hyped up that when you finally see it, it will just ultimately disappoint. Still, a fascinating (and depressing at times) tale).
 
Jodo's Dune did have some concrete results ... a little movie called 'Alien'. Many of the creative talents brought together for the Dune project went on to co-operate on the Ridley Scott film, and the rest is history...

I'm not a fan of the Dune books, but I saw the Lynch movie when it first ran. I was in New York at the time and went to a midnight screening. There were about 30-40 people in the audience, most of them (I suspect) stoned. I've never heard so much laughter. I too found much of the film to be very funny ... although the bits in between were sadly just dull or stupid.
 
Jodo's Dune did have some concrete results ... a little movie called 'Alien'. Many of the creative talents brought together for the Dune project went on to co-operate on the Ridley Scott film, and the rest is history...

I'm not a fan of the Dune books, but I saw the Lynch movie when it first ran. I was in New York at the time and went to a midnight screening. There were about 30-40 people in the audience, most of them (I suspect) stoned. I've never heard so much laughter. I too found much of the film to be very funny ... although the bits in between were sadly just dull or stupid.
 
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