New Documentary Called 'Jodorowsky's Dune' Currently in the Works

Now this sounds great already! THR is reporting that a new documentary was announced in Cannes today that is titled Jodorowsky's Dune. We wouldn't normally hear much buzz about this just beginning production, but it's a new documentary that I already can't wait to see. The film chronicles the attempt, and subsequent failure, of Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) to adapt Frank Herbert's seminal science fiction classic Dune with an incredible team of artists and filmmakers (listed below) back in the mid-70s before David Lynch's film was made in 1984. I'm totally sold.

Directing this new documentary is Frank Pavich, also of the 1999 music doc N.Y.H.C. Pavich has already completed interviews with Jodorowsky and the other surviving members of the original team, filming in France, Switzerland and the UK, and will be heading to the US next. Jodorowsky worked for two years on the ...

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