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Giger, his work is amazing." They never would have brought on Foss, never would have brought on Moebius … But that was all we knew.
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Dan O’Bannon never would have suggested to Ridley Scott, "Hey, you need to hire this guy H.R. Alien might not have happened if these people had not met in Paris under Jodorowsky. We knew that the whole team went on to do Alien. Did you find any smoking guns, where you knew a certain filmmaker had seen Jodorowsky’s plans? You highlight some striking echoes in other films. So this incredibly fertile two-year period really birthed so much amazing creativity. So did they get passed around? Did people see them and sort of get inspired by them, either consciously or unconsciously? And just like Alejandro used his ideas in other projects - his other comics, his other films - the other artists did as well. I think they made twenty, and there’s only two in existence now. You know, there’s a bunch of those books that were never recovered. And I think that he had enough confidence in himself and in his team to allow them to do that. He would kind of inspire them, he would go in and say, "This is what we need today, we need you to design a ship like this." But then he left them to create. I think it was what Alejandro gave them, which was this total freedom. What is it about this group of artists, and the work they did together on Dune, that’s had so much resonance? The team helped influenced an entire generation of filmmakers. None of them had worked in film - Moebius, Chris Foss, and Giger, none of them had worked in film before - and Alejandro just saw something special in them. And they were thrilled to get to tell their part of the story, because he really changed their lives. There’s nothing but good experiences on the film. They all still have nothing but good thoughts about Alejandro. Part celebration, part cinematic whodunnit, it’s one of the most engrossing films in recent memory, and we spoke with director Frank Pavich about bringing the unique tale to life. Nobody took the risk, but with a riveting mix of interviews and gorgeous animated storyboards, Jodorowsky’s Dune makes the case that the film changed the world anyway - its influence popping up in everything from Star Wars to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
#Jodorowsky's dune series
Then the filmmaker assembled a series of books containing every storyboard, ship design, and piece of art - and sent them off to the major studios to help get funding. Jodorowsky convinced everyone from Salvador Dalí to Orson Welles to star in his epic. Giger, with future Alien writer Dan O’Bannon handling visual effects. To bring it to life, he assembled a legendary creative team, including artists Jean “Moebius” Giraud and H.R. His vision was trippy and fantastic - "I did not want LSD to be taken, I wanted to fabricate the drug’s effects," Jodorowsky says. But as the new documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune argues, neither may have become the classics we know today were it not for another epic film - one that nobody has ever seen.Īlejandro Jodorowsky is the avant-garde filmmaker behind cult classics like El Topo and The Holy Mountain, and in 1975 he began work on a surrealistic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Star Wars helped usher in the era of the outer-space blockbuster, while Ridley Scott’s Alien crystallized a sinister vision with some of the most horrific creature design ever seen.
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In the late 1970s, science fiction and cinema changed forever.