# Jodorowsky's Dune **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326 "2014-03-23T00:26:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/1 "2014-03-23T00:26:28Z")
I am wondering if anyone here has seen the documentary [Jodorowsky’s Dune](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/?ref_=hm_inth_t6)? It looks real cool. The access to the storyboards and drawings may be worth it alone. I can’t imagine how that movie could have gotten made given the scope Jodorowsky was reaching for. It would have been fantastic. BTW, I love in the trailer when Jodorowsky says he never read the book. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/2 "2014-03-23T01:56:49Z")
I really want to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/3 "2014-03-23T05:13:31Z")
Haven’t but want to; I love Jodorowsky’s films. Yes, I’m that guy who keeps insisting that _Santa Sangre_ is one of the 10 most amazing films ever made. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/4 "2014-03-23T17:44:06Z")
Wow, from what I can find of Jordowosky’s Dune, it would have been a psychedelic nightmare. I would have loved to have seen it, but it probably wouldn’t have represented the book very literally. I’ll have to see this documentary, too. I’ve seen that pirate spaceship artwork in different places since I was 10, to find out that it came from pre-work for this movie makes me very interested. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/5 "2014-03-24T00:12:35Z")
How famous is Jodorowky as a graphic novel author in the English-speaking world? As a francophone, I knew him mostly through his written science fiction, so I find this project much less surprising than movies like El Topo or Santa Sangre. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/6 "2014-03-24T00:15:47Z")
I assume it will hit Netflix and I’ll see it then. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/7 "2014-03-24T01:01:18Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Wow, from what I can find of Jordowosky’s Dune, it would have been a psychedelic nightmare. I would have loved to have seen it, but it probably wouldn’t have represented the book very literally. > > I’ll have to see this documentary, too. I’ve seen that pirate spaceship artwork in different places since I was 10, to find out that it came from pre-work for this movie makes me very interested. Chris Foss did a lot of the conceptual artwork. Somewhere at home I have one of his [books](http://www.amazon.com/21st-century-foss-Chris-Foss/dp/9063325711) that has a section on his work on _Dune_ including a tri-wheel car used by Duke Leto that has ramps that dead bodies would slide down to litter the ground behind it as it drove :dubious: It would have been a weird, weird movie. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/8 "2014-03-24T15:13:02Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > How famous is Jodorowky as a graphic novel author in the English-speaking world? I know of the Incal/Metabarons stuff (didn’t I see a trailer for an Incal movie sometime). Wasn’t dragged in by _his_ name so much as Moebius’s, but it’s a good SF comic series. But I wouldn’t say “famous” at all. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/9 "2014-03-24T15:14:03Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Chris Foss did a lot of the conceptual artwork. Somewhere at home I have one of his [books](http://www.amazon.com/21st-century-foss-Chris-Foss/dp/9063325711) that has a section on his work on _Dune_ including a tri-wheel car used by Duke Leto that has ramps that dead bodies would slide down to litter the ground behind it as it drove :dubious: It would have been a weird, weird movie. Are you sure that was Duke Leto and not Baron Harkonnen? That would have been weird indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/10 "2014-03-25T12:36:51Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > How famous is Jodorowky as a graphic novel author in the English-speaking world? As a francophone, I knew him mostly through his written science fiction, so I find this project much less surprising than movies like El Topo or Santa Sangre. Humanoids have been re-issuing a lot of his work with Moebius as outsize limited edition hardbacks, with cheaper editions eventually following. And also titles like _Pietrolino_ and _Diosamante_ he did with other collaborators. You’d probably have to go to a fairly good specialist shop to find anything but _The Incal_ and maybe _The Metabarons_, though. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/11 "2014-03-25T18:09:46Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Chris Foss did a lot of the conceptual artwork. Somewhere at home I have one of his [books](http://www.amazon.com/21st-century-foss-Chris-Foss/dp/9063325711) that has a section on his work on _Dune_ including a tri-wheel car used by Duke Leto that has ramps that dead bodies would slide down to litter the ground behind it as it drove :dubious: It would have been a weird, weird movie. First thing I thought of, I have that book at home. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/12 "2014-03-26T13:38:09Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Chris Foss did a lot of the conceptual artwork. Somewhere at home I have one of his [books](http://www.amazon.com/21st-century-foss-Chris-Foss/dp/9063325711) that has a section on his work on _Dune_ including a tri-wheel car used by Duke Leto that has ramps that dead bodies would slide down to litter the ground behind it as it drove :dubious: It would have been a weird, weird movie. Man, that link brought back some memories! That page had a link to one of my favorite books when I was an early teen: _Space Wars: Worlds and Weapons_. I had totally forgotten about it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/13 "2014-03-26T15:34:31Z")
Thanks for the heads-up on this. I love Jodorowsky’s _El Topo_ since I saw it in college during the 1970s, but have never seen any of his other movies. I just added some of the others to my Netflix queue. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/14 "2014-03-26T19:24:01Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Man, that link brought back some memories! That page had a link to one of my favorite books when I was an early teen: _Space Wars: Worlds and Weapons_. I had totally forgotten about it. Yeah, it’s very evocative: the first thing it reminded me of was the old 70s [Panther](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpcrush/sets/72157629166930864/) paperbacks with their Chris Foss covers. They usually had almost nothing to do with the actual novel within, but the man could draw him some spaceships. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/15 "2014-03-26T20:17:30Z")
Foss sure had a thing for stripes and checkerboard paint jobs. Often both together. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/16 "2014-03-26T20:50:50Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Are you sure that was Duke Leto and not Baron Harkonnen? That would have been weird indeed. Yeah, it was Duke Leto in the caption - I had to double check as well. It could just be they go their wires crossed when describing the characters to Foss or the book editor. > [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Man, that link brought back some memories! That page had a link to one of my favorite books when I was an early teen: _Space Wars: Worlds and Weapons_. I had totally forgotten about it. I’ve still got Stewart Cowley’s TTA books (Great Space Battles, Spacecraft 2000 - 2100 AD etc). Still fun to read through and the artwork is top notch. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/17 "2014-03-27T01:14:10Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Foss sure had a thing for stripes and checkerboard paint jobs. Often both together. [And scoops. That man loved him some scoops.](https://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpcrush/9961744953/in/set-72157629166930864) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/18 "2014-03-29T01:28:50Z")
I am psyched. It turns out that the documentary will be playing in Toronto, starting next Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/19 "2014-03-29T02:12:28Z")
[Striped checkerboard scoops all up in this bitch.](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm365218304/tt1935156?ref_=ttmd_md_nxt) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326/20 "2014-03-29T02:17:40Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > BTW, I love in the trailer when Jodorowsky says he never read the book. I am reminded of an old Phil Foglio cartoon from _The Dragon_ (magazine for D&D gamers) outlining how a writer should deal with Hollywood. (Demand your payment in the form of a bag of cash tossed across California’s border. Boil before spending. **Have nothing else to do with the movie.)** One panel showed a producer talking on the phone, in an office with the poster for Frank Herbert’s _Dune_ on the wall: “But, Frank! Sweetie! Alan Dean Foster does **all** our novelizations!” Which in turn reminds me of a novel I once saw on the stands titled _Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein_ – which was not Mary Shelley’s novel, but a novelization of Kenneth Branagh’s film _Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein._ WTF?! 😕 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodorowskys-dune/684326.md?page=2)