![]() ![]() ( Dune, the novel, has since been adapted twice - a 1984 version directed by David Lynch and the first part of Denis Villeneuve’s two-part adaption, which was released this year.) Over time, the bibles, which attained almost religious status among reverential scholars and sci-fi obsessives, vanished from the public eye. The studios passed, and Jodorowsky’s film was never made. To sell the idea to Hollywood studios, Jodorowsky’s producers printed 20 luxurious volumes detailing the screenplay, illustrations, and designs in what he referred to as a “director’s bible.” ![]() Orson Welles was to play the evil Baron Harkonnen. ![]() Salvador Dalí would play the emperor of the universe (for a fee of $100,000 per minute of screentime). To execute his vision, Jodorowsky assembled a phalanx of celebrated artists, visual effects experts, illustrators, and designers. Between its covers is a doomed vision that the legendary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky had described as “the coming of a God”: his plans to turn Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic, Dune, into one of the most ambitious films ever made. Bound in sky blue cloth and marked with the number 5, the manuscript had lain dormant in a private collection for almost half a century. ![]()
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