@@CaptRobau Why it should be never released? This is Sci-fi, there is no limit to the imagination, nothing can stop it to fly and create, this f****n money is nothing compared to my imagination. Jodorowsky perfectly knows what sci-fi is all about but few people understand this, or it was hard for them to understand it, did not want to risk the money, the same money that are only papers and they can not create, only the imagination can but so his ideas were split into different movies after that.
I wouldn’t be opposed if they used the storyboards to animate it as an animated movie. I’m not asking for high quality animation. It can be mostly limited but just as a way to know how the film would have been.
Psychedelic nah that would have been insanity regardless of the time. Having 2000 men defecate themselves is one thing but just unnecessary necrophilia half-way through the movie, what point does that serve, who's character is driven by that? I'm glad arthouse films have dragged themselves back from this much of a bleeding edge.
Vitally important information: Michel Seydoux, producer of this movie never done, is the grand uncle of actress Léa Seydoux, Lady Margot Fenring in Dune Part two.
You forgot to mention the fun fact: Dame Charlotte Rampling, the actress who refused to play Lady Jessica in Jodorowsky's Dune because of the shitty scene, played Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim in Villaneuve's Dune.
Yeah, she read the script and literally told Jodorowsky "I need to be in movies people want to watch. Who the hell is going to want to watch this?" Keep in mind she had just done Zardoz, another notoriously strange film clearly developed under the influence of drugs and admitted she only said yes to it because she got to do a sex scene with Sean Connery, and Zardoz was considered a huge embarrassment for practically everyone involved, so she probably wasn't interested in doing another psychedelic sci-fi movie by a director higher than a kite.
@@trustno173 Yes, Jodorowsky was a detestable rapist and drug addict, and his Dune film getting its plug pulled was probably the best thing that ever happened to Frank Herbert. But still, he does hold the distinction of being the first filmmaker to ever attempt to make a film adaptation of Dune, and Dame Charlotte did agree to play Lady Jessica before she changed her mind.
@@organicketchup5171 The Beatles....in LOTR.... Oh my! Are they the Hobbits? Guess Merry and Pippin are George and Ringo. And of course, the Beatles would write the soundtrack. I'm liking this. This new reality also must have a 4th Nolan Batman movie so we can get the best Robin ever to be on screen. Well, in our reality he was the best Robin to never be on screen.
@@cannomjui78I’m 45 and dune was my favorite novel growing up. Lynch’s version was not Dune. This is even worse. Dune is not a drug trip novel. And it’s sad that all the hack directors of the 70s and 80s saw in the novel was Buck Rogers with melange and worms. What’s worse is all the dope head losers from that era wanted more “cult classic” drug movies to get high to and were willing to torch that novel to make it.
At least lynch had genuine constraints which made it difficult for him to properly adapt dune, not the least of which was funding because Jodorowsky blew it all up @@kevinc8955
Weird, weird borrowing of the myth of Isis and Osiris applied to Jessica and Leto. It does sound like an amazing project, but would have been a _dreadful_ film, I think .Charlotte Rampling was wise to avoid the project!
Honestly, I think it would have bombed so hard, and left such a bad taste in the mouth of the general public movie goers that it would set the sci-fi genre back at least a decade or more. No studio would have touched Star Wars. People don’t realize that before Star Wars, sci-fi was considered juvenile low budget double feature drive in stuff. Star Wars changed that forever. I’m glad it was never made.
Yeah “Star Wars” set the standard for Sci-Fi, not “2001: A Space Odyssey” or “Solaris” 🙄. “Star Wars” isn’t juvenile at all is it? A movie that made most of its money through merchandising toys. It’s barely even considered Sci-Fi.
I'm not interested in spending millions of dollars on a movie that's 'unwatchable, but still wonderful' and I'd never waste any money going to see it, either. Nor do I think that anybody else would.
@@Neville60001 Considering how many stupid watchable movies are made every month every year, I'd prefer to have one great movie with a great vision by one of the most unique directors.. Made it will be unwatchable for fans of trash movies n normal audience but that should be a reason to not have a unique movie, the argument to not have it is simply bad.
@@JohnNobody_, the 2021 version of _Dune_ is *_not_* 'stupid watchable' cinema, nor is its sequel; however, this movie of Jodoworsky's *_is_* bullshit cinema that has nothing to do with the novel it's named after/'based' on. Please wake up, get a life, get a clue, and get over yourself and your need to blast the new movie just because it isn't like this (thankfully) aborted movie of Jodoworsky's.
I don't even think Jodorowsky wanted this film made, I think he just wanted to work with that generations established and upcoming greatest artists. If that film had been made I truly don't think we would have the Dune from Denis. It would be an untouchable book with a past unconsumable by the future.
Meh, Villaneuves film is ok if a bit mediocre but this Jodorowskys Dune would of been so batshit it couldn’t be denied. Would of been so much more interesting. I don’t accept that Jodorowsky didn’t want it made either, it isn’t any crazier than The Holy Mountain and filmmakers don’t pour 2 million down the drain just to storyboard and brainstorm. It might not of been his money but it would of affected his ability to get funding in the future.
In the documentary he acknowledges that this is his version of DUNE, not the origional. He highlights the difficulty in bringing text to the screen, saying this is the movie of DUNE, very different from the book.
I've seen Jodorowsky's other movies and I really doubt his version of Dune could have been as good as everyone expected, I think it would be more like the Flash Gordon movie.
What? No movie is as good as Flash Gordon. I think this version of Dune would've been good, but it wouldn't have been as awesomely greatly wonderfully enjoyable as Flash Gordon.
The costumes and set designs make Jojo's Bizarre Adventure look tame and mundane in comparison. And those would have been the least bonkers part of the project.
It’s a good thing this monstrosity never got made. Jodorowski is insane and was just using the name Dune to make his own fever dream that had nothing to do with the book. It would have been even worse than Lynch’s Dune disaster.
Lots of movie theatre intermissions. I doubt the final product would've been 14 hours. But the script had ballooned to such a size and the director was very anti-hollywood. So when he went to the studios with his movie, they told him to change a lot of stuff including the length. So he kind of said: f them, I'll make a 20 hour movie if I want too.
Yeah Jodorowsky in the documentary really shows he doesn't care about the integrity of the source material. It's a starting point, nothing more. I like the ending as and ending though. Would have been a blast movie to kill your protagonist and then to show everyone chant his name to show that he lives on.
@@CaptRobau Jodorowsky's own additions to the script got re-contextualized into The Incal series, which is currently being prepped for a movie. We'll see what we wind up with, but I agree -- sometimes you deviate so far from the source material you wind up with something original.
@@troubadour723 wait shit i didnt know there was an incal movie being made thats sick. i really hope they do a good job with it, seems pretty hard to adapt
Yeah the only outrageous way too make this movie a thing , would too be full CGI .. tho I not going too lie, the movie looks like it would've been Fever Nightmare too watch .. Jojo Bizzare Adventure on extreme 70s LSD .. nah I'm good lol
The best way to answer this is it is one of those films that would have been fun to watch in theory, but I am glad it was never made. If anyone has really seen El Topo or Holy Mountain, this would have been the Jodo's Holy Trinity of Psychedelia.
I don’t understand anyone that is glad this wasn’t made. What kind of person doesn’t want to see this film? Who the fuck doesn’t want to see Orson Welles play Baron Harkonnen opposite Salvador Dali as the Emperor?!?
Some "interesting" art came of this, but a lot of it has nothing to do with the story and message of Frank Herberts' Dune. I'm glad this never went beyond the conceptual phase.
I'm not upset this never was made... It's like he read the dust jacket popped 20 tabs of acid and just said we're going to film whatever comes out of my mouth. Somehow the most impractical part is getting us to believe 2000 people pooping at the exact same time
You have no faith in the practical effects departments of the ‘70s. Also how unbelievably boring do you have to be to not want to see this film? Come on! Orson Welles playing Baron Harkonnen opposite Salvador Dali? Charlotte Rampling fucking a dismembered corpse?
Enough too make him bat-sh*t insane ? Wondering is any of that in the books ? Was there a part where 2000 people crap at once and the clown anus scene , wtf is going on here seriously 😂 ???
I’m uncertain whether this movie would have been a success or a failure had it been made. Nonetheless, I’m intrigued enough to wish to see it on the silver screen. The concept, art, and plot twists are particularly captivating to me.
I want this to be made into an animated series maybe for a streaming platform like HBO Max / Disney+... with a really big budget (probably +300 millions in total) and a unique artistic style in the same way Jodorosky, Giger, Foss and Moebius pictured it, live action landscapes, miniatures, buildings, animatronics and practical effects, slow-motion, motion capture, stylized 2D hand-painted/hand-traced traditional animation and extremely expensive and overworked CGI animation that would look like something from an alien's dream in a different time period. The characters would have the faces, acting, manners and (similar) voices of his cast choices, Dalí's Emperor would be the most expensive character ever to be animated, as he will combine all the existing filming and animating techniques in each frame he would appear, and his outfits would be made of real gold, diamonds and precious gems, so it would fulfil Dalí's eccentric demands back in the day. The score and Gurney's songs would be made by Pink Floyd too, and everything would look and sound like it has been created in another planet by aliens. It would be filmed/photographed in 70mm IMAX film and then scanned in 18K for post-production, some parts would be filmed in VHS tapes for artistic/stylistic reasons, and all the audio would be mastered on tape, the old-school way and then digitized and mastered in Dolby Atmos. Some sound parts would be mastered in cassette tapes and vinyl records with noise and cracks for artistic/stylistic reasons. The experience would be weird and hunting but also beautiful, artistic, alluring and hallucinogenic like LSD, as Jodorosky intended.
How dare you mention Disney. Jodorowsky hates Disney. And by the way, those big streaming platforms would contaminate the project because most agents / investors want to ruin everything
@@LarsonPettyUnless it’s Star Wars cause you get results like Andor and the KOTOR series that were made by non-fans. It’s so weird that every IP suffers from non fans then there’s Star Wars who goes unlimited power when a non fan is involved.
I’m scared shitless of AI and support creatives over computers but I’d love to see this made with the proposed cast and a accurate adaptation of the storyline….
I find almost all US films unwatchable. I've been happy as clam with avant garde ones since I stopped using nappies - which happened at a wholly usual age. But after hearing the plot synopsis...we really did not miss much. First I saw a sketch of Leto. I thought "hmm, quite the hair that". Then I saw Jodorowsky c 1970, And all became clear. A vanity project is one thing. A vanity project for a really vain man. Oh Dear, of dearie dear. And then a vain man with really old tired boring views on gender and sexuality. Let's just save a lot of time and stick knitting needles in our eyes. The Money Men did us all a big favour. Words I rarely utter.
This film sounds like it would’ve been an utter disaster. I detest unnecessary torture scenes and crass nudity (walking into the gaping arsehole of a giant clown house... wtf?!)
Don´t bother with any of the Dune sequels then, even book 2 was done by the time this project began and Jodo read it, and fucked up torture existed since the first book.
@@residentgrigo4701I loved the first book, but the children of dune lost me a hundred pages deep. It wasn't bad but it wasn't ground breaking like Dune 1
I imagine it would have been on about the technical level of STARCRASH (1978), with model kit-bashed spacecraft and stop-motion sandworms. It would be too gross and sexual for kids and too sci-fi for adults. Probably would have set science fiction films back a decade and prevented STAR WARS (1977) from being made.
Sorry no, I saw a movie they did about this and by the time he was done he had completely rewritten the novel. I can speak to this because I've read the books at least the first two. I don't care how cool or how psychedelic his vision would have been if it doesn't follow the books it's pretty much not Dune. Wouldn't be for me anyway. At the end he has the planet disappearing nowhere in the stories does the planet disappear.
So....right off the bat, the project misunderstands the source material in terms of content. Paul was a cult leader, and this film has him deified as a hero. Add that to the veryyyyyy 70s content (looking at you stairway to a woman's ass) and you've got a beautiful vermillion bird of a piece better off dead.
The same people going about what a crime it is that the movie was never made are the same that would now be disapointed with the movie. (Judging only by how their fx would look now and the scope of the project) People were true to the novel back then and actually seing what they read was the thing to make'em tick. Making jodo's film was unsustainable and would have been a disaster by the whims of all the excentrics hired on the set in key roles. It would have been hilarious to see Dali as the emperor. It seems to me that jodo was kind of mocking hard on herbert's novel.
It would've been terrible. I love Jodorowsky, but his style is just not suited for a sci-fi epic, especially since he expressed a desire to almost completely disregard the book.
Thanks for the cliff notes version of this film project/script. I now understand why it never got made. Americans don't go to the movies to feel like crap. You don't kill off hero in the last act. Even with all the wild departures from the book, the obsession with anal/scat imagery, the 10 to 13 hour run time( parts one,two,three???) the finale and largest nail in the coffin was killing off of Paul(the hero) in the final scene. Nope, that dog just wont hunt. I'm very happy that this project became the fertilizer for other films to blossom.
Paul becomes Jesus Christ in this adaptation: Virgin birth, miracles, self-sacrifice, the believers become animated by the Holy Spirit and enter Paradise.
DUNE IS NOT A 70s PSYCHEDELIC DRUG TRIP NOVEL. I felt like that was Fincher’s problem too. Just missed the message of the entire novel and focused on all the wrong things.
I’m glad it didn’t get made. In "Jodorowsky's Dune" all he did was talk about how far he wanted to veer away from the book. And many of those changes don't even make any sense in the context of his own changes. Like at 7:34 - 8:11 why would Lady Jessica rearrange Duke Leto's limbs back together and attempt having sex with his corpse, when way earlier Alejandro showed us that Duke Leto was castrated? All she had to do is the same thing she did to conceive Paul, and use only one drop of Duke Leto's blood. And the ending is infinitely WORSE than the ending in the David Lynch film. A planet that goes out to enlighten other planets? I also imagine that he didn't even factor the Spice all that much in the story either, because even in the documentary Spice is barely even mentioned at all. What does any of this have to do with “Dune?” Also considering the state of special effects back then, the majority of the effects would’ve been impossible or looked downright horrible. It would’ve been a horrible “Dune” adaptation. But instead we now have a bunch of great films in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune's absence. Plus we got Jodorowsky’s fantastic "The Incal" and "Metabarons," effectively already getting HIS vision of "Dune" out there after all. I prefer it this way.
From my knowledge of his works he like to make analogy from religion and mythology. The castration was probably to draw comparison to Jesus (The messiah/Savior) Miraculous virgin birth and the rebuilding of the body could be analogy of Isis and Osiris body leading to the birth of Horus. Also yeah atleast we got his Inca and Metabarons series. Also RIP Metabaron arist Juan Giménez.
I knew the 84 version was bad, but I didn't realize there could have been an even worse version. You could probably take some of these bizarre ideas and make a completely unrelated film
It could be either way .. a masterpiece or a big mess ... but what a great mess it would be ... Of all the directors who have taken from Jodo's Dune storyboards, only 1 director made it come to life atmospherically speaking -- he is Ridley Scott. Ridley Scott would have been the perfect director to make Jodo's Dune idea come to life in the most glorious ways possible ... just look at how he's fleshed out Blade Runner and Alien, he's visually the greatest director that ever lived ...
@@JafuetTheSame This movie heavily steered away from the book, it's not wandering a little bit. Plus, going closer to the books isn't going full literal 1:1 adaptation.
Thank god we never got it. Aside from a couple of art house films that I admit are interesting, he simply doesn't have the directing acumen to take on something like Dune and it showed with his laughable casting choices. He's better working with his own material not an IP. For a guy who's made a handful of films, he's also got a huge ego. it would've been a trainwreck.
Dear Lord Morpheus, I know you have a library full of books that were never written, but can I have access to the film archive of films that were never made? I need to see this film
I would love to see Jodorowsky’s version, and I assume it will be made eventually. However on watching this video, I'm thinking that might best be done by animating the whole movie directly from the storyboard. However it is done, I hope it is done as faithfully as possible. Even still, I expect I won't even like the result, but I still very much want to see it.
I’m so glad this film never got made. Jodorowsky would have made not only a mockery of Frank Herbert’s book, but probably would’ve ruined any future chances of Dune getting adapted.
There is a great documentary on this film that never happened. The sculptor responsible for the alien in Alien and Aliens created his early prototypes for this project.
Strange, the end of the A. J. Dune is like the end of Paul in his Dune Even tho the movie die, it live somehow in the influence it gave to other movies.
Would you have wanted this adaptation of Dune to be finished and released? Or is it better that it never did?
So, he basically wanted to make a super-long, sci-fi, extra pretentious version of Caligula?
@Labiche To what are you saying yes? That you would want it? Or that it is better that it never released?
@@CaptRobau Why it should be never released? This is Sci-fi, there is no limit to the imagination, nothing can stop it to fly and create, this f****n money is nothing compared to my imagination. Jodorowsky perfectly knows what sci-fi is all about but few people understand this, or it was hard for them to understand it, did not want to risk the money, the same money that are only papers and they can not create, only the imagination can but so his ideas were split into different movies after that.
I wouldn’t be opposed if they used the storyboards to animate it as an animated movie. I’m not asking for high quality animation. It can be mostly limited but just as a way to know how the film would have been.
No, it would have been horrible.
"...into the MOUTH of a large sculpture clown". My dude, that is NOT a mouth that is shown on the picture.
Beat me to it.
Well, it is, in Trump's case :D
@@h0plite996You're in for a rough November, pinko.
I thought the same... it's the exact _opposite_ of a mouth
@@h0plite996orange man extremely dangerous to our democracy. two scoops of ice cream when everyone else got one. something something january 6th. :^|
Psychedelic nah that would have been insanity regardless of the time. Having 2000 men defecate themselves is one thing but just unnecessary necrophilia half-way through the movie, what point does that serve, who's character is driven by that? I'm glad arthouse films have dragged themselves back from this much of a bleeding edge.
The Meta Barons comic series expresses this version of Dune
Cant wait for this movie to be made by ai
The thumbnail made me think this was Jojo’s Bizarre Jihad.
LMAO. That's the best description I've heard related to Jodorowsky's Dune.
That's actually just a great summary of Dune as a whole.
that sounds like Stardust Crusaders 👀
That’s hilarious dude “jihad” 😂
I thought just the same 😂😂😂
Vitally important information: Michel Seydoux, producer of this movie never done, is the grand uncle of actress Léa Seydoux, Lady Margot Fenring in Dune Part two.
Feels like a partial vindication that a member of his family did get to take part in a Dune movie
Also Charlotte Rampling, who was supposed to play lady jessica in this, eventually played the reverend mother in villenueve's version.
Very true, she was going to be cast as Lady Jessica. She rejected it after reading an infamous scene in the script.@@ahmadhakim535
@@daniel787What was the scene?
Everyone in films now is a product of nepotism.
You forgot to mention the fun fact: Dame Charlotte Rampling, the actress who refused to play Lady Jessica in Jodorowsky's Dune because of the shitty scene, played Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim in Villaneuve's Dune.
Yeah, she read the script and literally told Jodorowsky "I need to be in movies people want to watch. Who the hell is going to want to watch this?" Keep in mind she had just done Zardoz, another notoriously strange film clearly developed under the influence of drugs and admitted she only said yes to it because she got to do a sex scene with Sean Connery, and Zardoz was considered a huge embarrassment for practically everyone involved, so she probably wasn't interested in doing another psychedelic sci-fi movie by a director higher than a kite.
@@trustno173 Yes, Jodorowsky was a detestable rapist and drug addict, and his Dune film getting its plug pulled was probably the best thing that ever happened to Frank Herbert. But still, he does hold the distinction of being the first filmmaker to ever attempt to make a film adaptation of Dune, and Dame Charlotte did agree to play Lady Jessica before she changed her mind.
Some alternate reality the Beatles didn't split up and this movie was made
Dream come true for both of us
That is a great alternative reality
And starred in a version of LotR, directed by Stanley Kubrick 😮
@@organicketchup5171 The Beatles....in LOTR....
Oh my!
Are they the Hobbits? Guess Merry and Pippin are George and Ringo.
And of course, the Beatles would write the soundtrack.
I'm liking this.
This new reality also must have a 4th Nolan Batman movie so we can get the best Robin ever to be on screen. Well, in our reality he was the best Robin to never be on screen.
You know your movie is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs when you somehow manage the astronomical accomplishment of making David Lynch's movie look normal.
lemme guess 16 yo
@@cannomjui78I’m 45 and dune was my favorite novel growing up. Lynch’s version was not Dune. This is even worse.
Dune is not a drug trip novel. And it’s sad that all the hack directors of the 70s and 80s saw in the novel was Buck Rogers with melange and worms. What’s worse is all the dope head losers from that era wanted more “cult classic” drug movies to get high to and were willing to torch that novel to make it.
@@kevinc8955This would have been better than the original novel.
At least lynch had genuine constraints which made it difficult for him to properly adapt dune, not the least of which was funding because Jodorowsky blew it all up @@kevinc8955
Nah@@neo-filthyfrank1347
They didn't look for Alejandro to make Dune, he's the one who wanted to make Dune, despite never reading the book before.
That explains a lot
He definitely did
Weird, weird borrowing of the myth of Isis and Osiris applied to Jessica and Leto. It does sound like an amazing project, but would have been a _dreadful_ film, I think .Charlotte Rampling was wise to avoid the project!
Maybe a great BD, though.
Honestly, I think it would have bombed so hard, and left such a bad taste in the mouth of the general public movie goers that it would set the sci-fi genre back at least a decade or more. No studio would have touched Star Wars. People don’t realize that before Star Wars, sci-fi was considered juvenile low budget double feature drive in stuff. Star Wars changed that forever. I’m glad it was never made.
2001: A Space Odyssey set the sci-fi benchmark for Star Wars.
Yeah “Star Wars” set the standard for Sci-Fi, not “2001: A Space Odyssey” or “Solaris” 🙄. “Star Wars” isn’t juvenile at all is it? A movie that made most of its money through merchandising toys. It’s barely even considered Sci-Fi.
How high were these people when they wrote and planned this?
Quite possibly very
The Spice sure was flowing!
4:57 "Let's enter that gaping clown mouth over there!"
Look up "Nephilim look like Clown" theory , all this imaginary becomes a lot darker ..
It would have been unwatchable, but still wonderful.
I think that’s what a lot of people are missing here. It wouldn’t have been the book, but I think craziness has its own merit.
I'm not interested in spending millions of dollars on a movie that's 'unwatchable, but still wonderful' and I'd never waste any money going to see it, either. Nor do I think that anybody else would.
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@@Neville60001 Considering how many stupid watchable movies are made every month every year, I'd prefer to have one great movie with a great vision by one of the most unique directors.. Made it will be unwatchable for fans of trash movies n normal audience but that should be a reason to not have a unique movie, the argument to not have it is simply bad.
@@JohnNobody_, the 2021 version of _Dune_ is *_not_* 'stupid watchable' cinema, nor is its sequel; however, this movie of Jodoworsky's *_is_* bullshit cinema that has nothing to do with the novel it's named after/'based' on. Please wake up, get a life, get a clue, and get over yourself and your need to blast the new movie just because it isn't like this (thankfully) aborted movie of Jodoworsky's.
I don't even think Jodorowsky wanted this film made, I think he just wanted to work with that generations established and upcoming greatest artists. If that film had been made I truly don't think we would have the Dune from Denis. It would be an untouchable book with a past unconsumable by the future.
Agreed. The IP would be toxic. Glad this was not made.
Meh, Villaneuves film is ok if a bit mediocre but this Jodorowskys Dune would of been so batshit it couldn’t be denied. Would of been so much more interesting. I don’t accept that Jodorowsky didn’t want it made either, it isn’t any crazier than The Holy Mountain and filmmakers don’t pour 2 million down the drain just to storyboard and brainstorm. It might not of been his money but it would of affected his ability to get funding in the future.
In the documentary he acknowledges that this is his version of DUNE, not the origional. He highlights the difficulty in bringing text to the screen, saying this is the movie of DUNE, very different from the book.
I've seen Jodorowsky's other movies and I really doubt his version of Dune could have been as good as everyone expected, I think it would be more like the Flash Gordon movie.
With the quality and acting of Battlefield earth and tone of Batman v Robin
shut up
@@TheTyroofToriyama😅
What? No movie is as good as Flash Gordon.
I think this version of Dune would've been good, but it wouldn't have been as awesomely greatly wonderfully enjoyable as Flash Gordon.
No way would it have been that good.
Was not expecting necrophelia
That bit's a borrowing of the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris and Isis, though.
Well within Josorowsky's means xD
That is an interesting fact. Thank you for letting me know.@@johnleake5657
Necrophelia sounds like a nice nickname for a emo girl named Ophelia
@@johnleake5657 Still weird and not particularly necessary
The costumes and set designs make Jojo's Bizarre Adventure look tame and mundane in comparison.
And those would have been the least bonkers part of the project.
I know Dio Brando walking up a clowns anus and taking a Sh^t , would have been funny AF too have seen lol
Let's be honest, this would have been a massive failure. 1,000 extras "pooping"? Can't eat popcorn to that!
Weak
It all comes out the same in the end
@@gregbors8364 That's a crappy attitude
@@sameaster5150 Let’s not get corny…
@@gregbors8364 Wipe that grin off your face
Gee, I wonder why no one was willing to fund this movie.
no one is creative enough to care
Because it would've been too epic to fit on the screen
Some studio said yes but they didn't want jodorowsky to directed.He needed 15mil and manage to find 10 it was so close
Gee, maybe because most of earth’s population are npcs that have ZERO ambition, imagination and want colorless mundane films with no spiritual value
@@organicwins91 You just described what this movie would have been.
Say no to drugs kids
I'm so amazed at how influential Dune is. Even this failed adaptation influenced other awesome sci-fi.
would have been terrible and a complete betrayal of everything dune had to say. jodorowsky is a beautifully unhinged man
4:56 dude, that is no mouth
Wrong end of the body.
In the mouth of madness…
The video was correct.
They did enter through the mouth.
It's just that they got there all the way from the far end first.
Should have been made as an animation.
Cast is incredible Orson welles would of Been a perfect Baron
Not would of been, would have been it should be
It’s pretty funny how they bribed him with food lol
Ah, the Sardaukar... champagne has always been...
It’s a good thing this monstrosity never got made. Jodorowski is insane and was just using the name Dune to make his own fever dream that had nothing to do with the book. It would have been even worse than Lynch’s Dune disaster.
It would have been the best movie ever made
I agree. Travesty of a 'movie' that would have shat all over the story. total joke.
It would've been an even bigger stain on the name of Dune than Verhoven's Starship Troopers was on Heinlein's masterpiece.
Wtf? This isn't Dune.
Whenever people say "this would never get made", remember that Caligula was.
Mouth of a clown you say?
Bro was just all over the place ☠️☠️☠️
How do you watch a 14 hour movie back then?
Lots of movie theatre intermissions.
I doubt the final product would've been 14 hours. But the script had ballooned to such a size and the director was very anti-hollywood. So when he went to the studios with his movie, they told him to change a lot of stuff including the length. So he kind of said: f them, I'll make a 20 hour movie if I want too.
They should have pitched it as a mini-series for television.
He should have done it in sequels like star wars
@@troubadour723the concept of a miniseries didn’t exist in the 70’s I’m pretty sure
@@Viper-dz2kw Roots must have been a mass hallucination then.
I like the truly alien costumes, architecture, and cultures. It's realistic. Just wish it stuck closer to the book story wise.
Yeah Jodorowsky in the documentary really shows he doesn't care about the integrity of the source material. It's a starting point, nothing more.
I like the ending as and ending though. Would have been a blast movie to kill your protagonist and then to show everyone chant his name to show that he lives on.
@@CaptRobau Jodorowsky's own additions to the script got re-contextualized into The Incal series, which is currently being prepped for a movie. We'll see what we wind up with, but I agree -- sometimes you deviate so far from the source material you wind up with something original.
@@troubadour723 wait shit i didnt know there was an incal movie being made thats sick. i really hope they do a good job with it, seems pretty hard to adapt
A series of graphic novels might be better for this version. I don't know if I can handle a mini series or movie like this.
Somebody needs to push his script thru the Unreal Engine and make that movie!!
I agree
No pls 😭😭😭
Yeah the only outrageous way too make this movie a thing , would too be full CGI .. tho I not going too lie, the movie looks like it would've been Fever Nightmare too watch .. Jojo Bizzare Adventure on extreme 70s LSD .. nah I'm good lol
The best way to answer this is it is one of those films that would have been fun to watch in theory, but I am glad it was never made. If anyone has really seen El Topo or Holy Mountain, this would have been the Jodo's Holy Trinity of Psychedelia.
I don’t understand anyone that is glad this wasn’t made. What kind of person doesn’t want to see this film? Who the fuck doesn’t want to see Orson Welles play Baron Harkonnen opposite Salvador Dali as the Emperor?!?
Luke Skywalker "Hes heading over there! Into that large clowns mouth there!"
*Han Solo with a look of sheer horror
Solo: "THATS NO CLOWN!!"
"THATS NO MOUTH!"
Some "interesting" art came of this, but a lot of it has nothing to do with the story and message of Frank Herberts' Dune. I'm glad this never went beyond the conceptual phase.
I'm not upset this never was made... It's like he read the dust jacket popped 20 tabs of acid and just said we're going to film whatever comes out of my mouth. Somehow the most impractical part is getting us to believe 2000 people pooping at the exact same time
You have no faith in the practical effects departments of the ‘70s. Also how unbelievably boring do you have to be to not want to see this film? Come on! Orson Welles playing Baron Harkonnen opposite Salvador Dali? Charlotte Rampling fucking a dismembered corpse?
I wonder how many hits of LSD did Jorodowski took while planning this film?
Yes
All of it.
Enough too make him bat-sh*t insane ? Wondering is any of that in the books ? Was there a part where 2000 people crap at once and the clown anus scene , wtf is going on here seriously 😂 ???
You will not be able to put together a 2000 page film treatment while on LSD.
Ngl I think the 2,000 extras shitting is such a power move for the film, I will find a way to do this in one of my films
I'll be one of the extras 😂
@@CaptRobau same
I am sourcing truckloads of dried prunes as we speak. How many you reckon are needed before we get the synchronizing done?
2000
We all saw that on Jan 6 at the Capitol
The art looks amazing, but the film would have changed so much from the novel that it virtually wouldn’t have been the same story
Thank _God_ they did not make this movie. Dune would have been dead forever.
I’m uncertain whether this movie would have been a success or a failure had it been made. Nonetheless, I’m intrigued enough to wish to see it on the silver screen. The concept, art, and plot twists are particularly captivating to me.
Duncan Idaho being a midget is the least expected thing for me. I thought everyone imagined him as a tall, athletic person.
Was it Duncan Idaho that would have been played by a little person or Gurney Hallack?
Imagining Duncan as a midget in the newer Dune movies slays me.
One little guy fighting against a group of Sardaukar alone lol
I want this to be made into an animated series maybe for a streaming platform like HBO Max / Disney+... with a really big budget (probably +300 millions in total) and a unique artistic style in the same way Jodorosky, Giger, Foss and Moebius pictured it, live action landscapes, miniatures, buildings, animatronics and practical effects, slow-motion, motion capture, stylized 2D hand-painted/hand-traced traditional animation and extremely expensive and overworked CGI animation that would look like something from an alien's dream in a different time period.
The characters would have the faces, acting, manners and (similar) voices of his cast choices, Dalí's Emperor would be the most expensive character ever to be animated, as he will combine all the existing filming and animating techniques in each frame he would appear, and his outfits would be made of real gold, diamonds and precious gems, so it would fulfil Dalí's eccentric demands back in the day.
The score and Gurney's songs would be made by Pink Floyd too, and everything would look and sound like it has been created in another planet by aliens.
It would be filmed/photographed in 70mm IMAX film and then scanned in 18K for post-production, some parts would be filmed in VHS tapes for artistic/stylistic reasons, and all the audio would be mastered on tape, the old-school way and then digitized and mastered in Dolby Atmos. Some sound parts would be mastered in cassette tapes and vinyl records with noise and cracks for artistic/stylistic reasons.
The experience would be weird and hunting but also beautiful, artistic, alluring and hallucinogenic like LSD, as Jodorosky intended.
This sounds amazing! It would be amazing to see this on the big screen :D
No anybody but Disney please
LSD is not addictive...
From your lips to God’s ear!
How dare you mention Disney. Jodorowsky hates Disney. And by the way, those big streaming platforms would contaminate the project because most agents / investors want to ruin everything
Why didn't they turn this Dune movie into a comic instead. Making a movie would have been to hard
He kinda made this, creating the comicbook Incal with Moebius
The Metabarons is heavily influenced by the script, including the born-from-a-blood-drop-scene.
Jodorowsky's greatest feat was gathering this amazing crew that made, but in the end he was the one responsible for the film never happening
2:30 Specifically, Dali wanted to be able to boast he was the highest paid actor of all time.
Worth noting that Jodorowsky never actually read Dune - he considered that irrelevant.
Source material doesn't seem to be very important to modern Hollywood.
@@LarsonPettyUnless it’s Star Wars cause you get results like Andor and the KOTOR series that were made by non-fans. It’s so weird that every IP suffers from non fans then there’s Star Wars who goes unlimited power when a non fan is involved.
That explains a lot.
Only someone high in LSD would make this type of movie 😂
That is the true intention of Jodorowsky...recreate a LSD sensation...you must see The documentary movie called "Dune of Jodorowsky"
Surprised it did not make it into a Heavy Metal movie
No no no no no, the LSD is for when you’re watching the film.
Yeah, I wouldnt want to see a movie with the defecation of 2000 people.
I’m scared shitless of AI and support creatives over computers but I’d love to see this made with the proposed cast and a accurate adaptation of the storyline….
I find almost all US films unwatchable.
I've been happy as clam with avant garde ones since I stopped using nappies - which happened at a wholly usual age.
But after hearing the plot synopsis...we really did not miss much.
First I saw a sketch of Leto. I thought "hmm, quite the hair that".
Then I saw Jodorowsky c 1970, And all became clear.
A vanity project is one thing. A vanity project for a really vain man. Oh Dear, of dearie dear.
And then a vain man with really old tired boring views on gender and sexuality.
Let's just save a lot of time and stick knitting needles in our eyes.
The Money Men did us all a big favour. Words I rarely utter.
This film sounds like it would’ve been an utter disaster. I detest unnecessary torture scenes and crass nudity (walking into the gaping arsehole of a giant clown house... wtf?!)
just said the same thing...
Don´t bother with any of the Dune sequels then, even book 2 was done by the time this project began and Jodo read it, and fucked up torture existed since the first book.
@@residentgrigo4701I loved the first book, but the children of dune lost me a hundred pages deep. It wasn't bad but it wasn't ground breaking like Dune 1
That's what happens when you declare Salvador Dalí emperor of the known universe.
If this was made, it'd be like The Room met... all the other stuff it inspired.
I imagine it would have been on about the technical level of STARCRASH (1978), with model kit-bashed spacecraft and stop-motion sandworms. It would be too gross and sexual for kids and too sci-fi for adults. Probably would have set science fiction films back a decade and prevented STAR WARS (1977) from being made.
14 hours?? Man, I think 90 minutes is too long lol. I think it's better that it never did get released. But it would have made a cool animated series.
Did anyone involved with this movie actually read any of the books?
this all demonstrates the usefulness of nurturing the creativity in a scene in which ideas can be developed, exchanged, recycled, and preserved.
Sorry no, I saw a movie they did about this and by the time he was done he had completely rewritten the novel. I can speak to this because I've read the books at least the first two. I don't care how cool or how psychedelic his vision would have been if it doesn't follow the books it's pretty much not Dune. Wouldn't be for me anyway. At the end he has the planet disappearing nowhere in the stories does the planet disappear.
So....right off the bat, the project misunderstands the source material in terms of content. Paul was a cult leader, and this film has him deified as a hero. Add that to the veryyyyyy 70s content (looking at you stairway to a woman's ass) and you've got a beautiful vermillion bird of a piece better off dead.
I don't know if it would have been good, but it would have been a fascinating endeavor
The same people going about what a crime it is that the movie was never made are the same that would now be disapointed with the movie. (Judging only by how their fx would look now and the scope of the project) People were true to the novel back then and actually seing what they read was the thing to make'em tick. Making jodo's film was unsustainable and would have been a disaster by the whims of all the excentrics hired on the set in key roles. It would have been hilarious to see Dali as the emperor. It seems to me that jodo was kind of mocking hard on herbert's novel.
It would've been terrible. I love Jodorowsky, but his style is just not suited for a sci-fi epic, especially since he expressed a desire to almost completely disregard the book.
Thanks for the cliff notes version of this film project/script. I now understand why it never got made. Americans don't go to the movies to feel like crap. You don't kill off hero in the last act. Even with all the wild departures from the book, the obsession with anal/scat imagery, the 10 to 13 hour run time( parts one,two,three???) the finale and largest nail in the coffin was killing off of Paul(the hero) in the final scene. Nope, that dog just wont hunt. I'm very happy that this project became the fertilizer for other films to blossom.
Paul becomes Jesus Christ in this adaptation: Virgin birth, miracles, self-sacrifice, the believers become animated by the Holy Spirit and enter Paradise.
Who would clean up the poop of 2000 extras. Yuch not me.
8:10 Damn that's some Egyptian shit right there
Glad this was never made. It would’ve been such a disaster and we’d probably still be waiting for another attempt 50 years later.
Thank God Jodorowsky never nade his movie. It would have been absolutely awful.
It would be amazing
DUNE IS NOT A 70s PSYCHEDELIC DRUG TRIP NOVEL.
I felt like that was Fincher’s problem too. Just missed the message of the entire novel and focused on all the wrong things.
I’m glad it didn’t get made. In "Jodorowsky's Dune" all he did was talk about how far he wanted to veer away from the book. And many of those changes don't even make any sense in the context of his own changes. Like at 7:34 - 8:11 why would Lady Jessica rearrange Duke Leto's limbs back together and attempt having sex with his corpse, when way earlier Alejandro showed us that Duke Leto was castrated? All she had to do is the same thing she did to conceive Paul, and use only one drop of Duke Leto's blood. And the ending is infinitely WORSE than the ending in the David Lynch film. A planet that goes out to enlighten other planets? I also imagine that he didn't even factor the Spice all that much in the story either, because even in the documentary Spice is barely even mentioned at all. What does any of this have to do with “Dune?” Also considering the state of special effects back then, the majority of the effects would’ve been impossible or looked downright horrible. It would’ve been a horrible “Dune” adaptation. But instead we now have a bunch of great films in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune's absence. Plus we got Jodorowsky’s fantastic "The Incal" and "Metabarons," effectively already getting HIS vision of "Dune" out there after all. I prefer it this way.
From my knowledge of his works he like to make analogy from religion and mythology. The castration was probably to draw comparison to Jesus (The messiah/Savior) Miraculous virgin birth and the rebuilding of the body could be analogy of Isis and Osiris body leading to the birth of Horus. Also yeah atleast we got his Inca and Metabarons series. Also RIP Metabaron arist Juan Giménez.
I knew the 84 version was bad, but I didn't realize there could have been an even worse version. You could probably take some of these bizarre ideas and make a completely unrelated film
Ya, BUT… this isn’t Dune.
This is the result of a movie written by a guy who read Dune, took Acid, then wrote This.
Aka: not Dune.
This film would have been a mess, it wandered way to far from the book.
too far? what is the point of making literal screen adaptations when the book exists?
It could be either way .. a masterpiece or a big mess ... but what a great mess it would be ...
Of all the directors who have taken from Jodo's Dune storyboards, only 1 director made it come to life atmospherically speaking -- he is Ridley Scott.
Ridley Scott would have been the perfect director to make Jodo's Dune idea come to life in the most glorious ways possible ... just look at how he's fleshed out Blade Runner and Alien, he's visually the greatest director that ever lived ...
@@JafuetTheSame This movie heavily steered away from the book, it's not wandering a little bit. Plus, going closer to the books isn't going full literal 1:1 adaptation.
The rememberment sex scene is Osiris and Isis derived.
Baron Harkonnen is Seth
Thank god we never got it. Aside from a couple of art house films that I admit are interesting, he simply doesn't have the directing acumen to take on something like Dune and it showed with his laughable casting choices. He's better working with his own material not an IP. For a guy who's made a handful of films, he's also got a huge ego. it would've been a trainwreck.
Dear Lord Morpheus, I know you have a library full of books that were never written, but can I have access to the film archive of films that were never made? I need to see this film
I would love to see Jodorowsky’s version, and I assume it will be made eventually. However on watching this video, I'm thinking that might best be done by animating the whole movie directly from the storyboard. However it is done, I hope it is done as faithfully as possible. Even still, I expect I won't even like the result, but I still very much want to see it.
I would have watched this. Love me some fever dreams.
I’m so glad this film never got made. Jodorowsky would have made not only a mockery of Frank Herbert’s book, but probably would’ve ruined any future chances of Dune getting adapted.
There is a great documentary on this film that never happened. The sculptor responsible for the alien in Alien and Aliens created his early prototypes for this project.
Just put the script in ai app, and Voilà, got the 14 hour original dune flick
Jodorowski must have been doing Spice when he came up with this madness.
New idea: 💡 They need to get AI to reconstruct this whole movie concept 😂
Jojo Dune
As a live action? No. As a 70s animated movie? Absolutely.
4:50 That's not the clown's mouth!
Strange, the end of the A. J. Dune is like the end of Paul in his Dune
Even tho the movie die, it live somehow in the influence it gave to other movies.
Salvador Dali $100,000 an hour what a Legend😂
Sounds like trash, ngl. The art is good, but as an adaptation, nah.
I would really, really love to see Jodorowsky's Dune
Way beyond x rated. Pass. Some good ideas though.
If this movie did get made. Fans of the book would have hated it.
Jodorowsky’s Jojo’s
It would had sucked as much as Lynch’s film! As a fan of the novels since I was 12 and this would had been a disaster
it would have had Magma for harkonen soundtrack. nuff said