Jodorowsky intended his next
project to be his masterpiece
An ambitious and colossal adaptation of Frank
Herbert's science fiction classic: Dune
To realise his vision,
Jodorowsky gathered together
an unprecedented team of
talented graphic artists
including Swiss horror master H.R. Giger
American special effects
expert Dan O'Bannon
and French comic book genius
Jean "Moebius" Giraud
Together they would attempt to
make Jodorowsky's dream a reality
He had the idea that an artist in
comics could be a good artist in movies
because it would sort of be the same
We meet completely be chance
He was going out of a building,
and I was going in,
and he says "Are you Moebius?"
and I say "Yes"
"Oh, I need you to do a movie,
we leave to Hollywood next week"
He wanted to do a great saga
and film the best film
ever done, you know?
Mystic, a message for the whole planet.
He made 3,000 drawings,
and we make the script
We shot the picture, he was
the camera, I was the director
But sadly the project was never
to leave the drawing board
Jodorowsky's ideas were too
grand, even for Hollywood
and after 3 years of work,
his massive project was shelved
The film was eventually made, and
ironically turned out to be the biggest
budget movie of its time, as well as a
huge flop for American director David Lynch
When they said to me he
would do Dune I was ill
I was very ill, I get ill
because I say this damn guy
they get the only one director who can do
that, and he will do it maybe better than me
And when I went to the movies, I sat there
but I was with eczema, I was trembling
I say this will be
better than my project
And then, step by step,
minute by minute
I start to lose my eczema, to
laugh, to get happy, I'm more happy
I was happy it was so awful.
