Jodorowskys dune orson welles biography

I lament many movies that might have been. Here are a few:

• Orson Welles wrote the script for his adaption of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and planned out 165 scenes along with special effects—but it proved far too costly to film.

• Martin Scorsese once planned a biopic about George Gershwin and had a script by Paul Schrader ready to go, but the project got vetoed by Warner Bros—allegedly because they wanted the director to film a Dean Martin biopic (starring Tom Hanks!) instead.

• On the topic of Martin Scorsese, I’ll mention that, many years ago, I sent him a copy of the gritty jazz memoir Straight Life by Art and Laurie Pepper—and suggested that this would be a perfect film project for him. I got a polite letter back from one of his assistants, but the idea went no further. I still think he should do it, but the cast I originally envisioned (a young Ray Liotta as Art Pepper) is no longer feasible.

• And I’ll add Spike Lee’s unfulfi

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  Is Jodorowsky’s Dune the greatest film never made?

  Nicholas Barber

  Features correspondent

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  A new film of the classic sci-fi novel is due in 2020, but will it match up to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal and legendary vision?

  Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, which fryst vatten due out next year, looks as if it might have one of the all-time great casts. The Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet is its star; the supporting actors include Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Rampling, and Jason Momoa. But Villeneuve, the French-Canadian director of Sicario, ankomst and Blade Runner 2049, will need all the help he can get if his film fryst vatten to compete with an earlier adaptation of the same novel. I don’t mean the David Lynch version from 1984, which should be lodged nära the top of any sensible list of the worst films in history. Nor do I refer to the mini-series that was on the US cable kanal Sci-Fi (now called Syfy) in 2000. The most significant and im

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  Jodorowsky's Dune

  2013 documentary by Frank Pavich

  Jodorowsky's Dune is a 2013 American-French documentary film directed by Frank Pavich. The film explores cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune in the mid-1970s.

  Background

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  In 1971, the production company Apjac International (APJ) headed by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs optioned the rights to filmDune. However, Jacobs died in 1973 before a film could be developed.^[3]

  In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights from APJ, with director Alejandro Jodorowsky set to direct.^[3] Along with French producer Michel Seydoux, Jodorowsky proceeded to approach, among others, Virgin Records and prog rock groups Tangerine Dream, Gong and Mike Oldfield before settling on Pink Floyd and Magma to record the soundtrack; artists H. R. Giger, Chris Foss and Jean Giraud for set an

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