I have a personal anecdote about the documentary.<p>I am a huge Dune fan. Book 4 is my favorite of all time. I also grew up in France, loving Bilal and Jodorowsky's work.<p>At the time io9 was the only outlet regularly covering the progress on the documentary. It was just a super niche sci-fi documentary. Before the movie released, io9 organized a little screening, which they mentioned on their blog. I had to be there! Sent an email to the staff, explaining how important it was that I would see this film. I'd sit on the stairs if I have to.<p>The team was super cool and told me I could go with a friend. We saw it and it was awesome. They organized a little get together after the screening and we talked about the movie. I think the whole thing was put together by Charlie Jane. It was such a cool experience, I really loved that. Thanks io9 for helping this documentary!
Have you actually watched Jodorowskys movies? Because if you go and watch one, you know that his Dune would be have been an absolutely incomprehensible nightmare. The costuming would have been really cool, but the story would have been totally changed to be incoherent, and it would have become an infamous scandal at changing a movie away from the book storyline.<p>I was so intrigued by this documentary, and how amazing it might be, until I went and actually watched ‘El Topo’. It was probably the worst movie I’ve ever watched… To this day everyone I asked to watch it with me will bring up how bad and weird,incoherent, and gross it was.
Much of the original planning and ideas of Jodorowsky's Dune was eventually used in Jodorowsky and Mœbius' "The Incal" series[1].
Two years or so ago Taika Waititi and Jodorowsky announced they're working on a movie version of that[2]. I really really hope that one will get made.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.theincalmovie.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theincalmovie.com/</a>
We have three Dunes at this point, suggesting the attention may be shifted somewhere else. Hyperion, anyone? Or perhaps some Vernor Vinge?<p>You could also obvious film Barrayar space opera. So surprising why it was never done. It's so <i>now</i> it makes contemporarity feel like fake.
I saw that documentary when released and to be honest, I didn't believe many stories Jodorowsky tells about that project, in some cases he sound like my old uncle adding a bunch of lies to his stories to make it more interesting. Of course he has storybooks and many stories I'm sure are true.
Never understood where he got the clown-like colourful chequered spaceships from. There is nothing like that in the books & it just feels out of place
The material should be fed into ChatGPT et al, and see what we get to watch. There could be many versions that vary by the feeding/prompting process.