Jodorowsky's Dune

Illustrating the enormity of his imagination, this documentary details the wildly ambitious ideas cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky had for his big screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s legendary sci-fi novel – before it was canned and given to director David Lynch instead.

In 1975, following the runaway success of his art-house freak-outs El Topo and Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky secured the rights to Frank Herbert's Dune - and began work on what was gearing up to be a cinematic game-changer, a sci-fi epic unlike anything the world had ever seen. Jodorowsky enlisted an elite group of artistic mercenaries, including French comic book artist Moebius, who illustrated the storyboards; Alien screenwriter Dan O'Bannon and artist H.R. Giger; and sci-fi paperback illustrator Chris Foss. For the cast, he lined up icons ranging from Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger to Orson Welles, and even his own son, who was put through two years of gruelling martial arts training to prepare for his role. Unfortunately, the film was never made.

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