Dune I

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A film of Dune was planned and fell apart long before David Lynch's 1984 version.
==1971 - 1973==
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs.
Director: David Lean (rumoured).
Screenplay: Robert Bolt (rumoured), replaced by Rospo Pallenberg.
Budget: $15 million.
==1975==
Producer: Jean-Paul Gibon.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Screenplay: Dan O'Bannon.
Music: Pink Floyd.
Budget: $9.5 million or $20 million.
Designer (Harkonen): HR Giger.
Designer (Craft): Chris Foss.
Cast:
Emperor Shaddam IV - Salvador Dalí, replaced by puppet of Dalí, Orson Welles(rumoured).
Duke Leto - Alejandro Jodorowsky (original plan), David Carradine (rumoured).
Paul - Brontis Jodorowsky (director's son)
Liet Kynes - David Carradine.
Lady Jessica - (turned down by Charlotte Rampling).
Reverend Mother Gaius - Gloria Swanson (rumoured).
HR Giger: "Four science fiction artists were busy designing spaceships, satellites and whole planets.... Jodorowsky said that he would like me to try some designs - I could create a whole planet, and I would have a completely free hand. Three-dimensional models would be made from my sketches and actors superimposed on them. I could also design costumes and masks, etc. according to my own ideas."
"My planet was ruled by evil, a place where black magic was practiced, aggressions were let loose, and intemperance and perversion were the order of the day. Just the place for me, in fact. Only sex couldn't be shown, and I had to work as if the film was being made for children. Jodorowsky was fed up with having his films censored. A team of thirty specialists would transform my ideas into film. I was thrilled by the idea."
==1979-1980==
Director: Ridley Scott.
Designer (Harkonen): HR Giger.
==Links==
* http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/
* http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/dune_jodorowsky_991019.html
* http://www.squaremans.com/?p=118
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