{"id":71,"date":"2008-10-30T01:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almostwp\/?p=71"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:24:25","slug":"dune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/archives\/71","title":{"rendered":"Dune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Alexandro Jodorowsky<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the mid 1970s, surrealist filmmaker Jodorowsky worked to put together his dream version of Dune &#8211; which would include many bizarre elements that author Frank Herbert understandably had problems with. He assembled a dream team of collaborators. French comic artist Moebius contributed some 3000 storyboards. British painter Christopher Foss and Swiss artist H.R. Giger were brought in as conceptual artists. Dan O&#8217;Bannon, who did sci-fi on the cheap with <strong>Dark Star<\/strong>, would do miniature effects. The film would be scored by Pink Floyd. And the mad Emperor of the Galaxy would be played by Salvador Dali. Unfortunately, big budget sci-fi was considered risky at the time. When Jodorowsky&#8217;s Dune fell apart, Moebius, Foss, O&#8217;Bannon, and Giger went on to work on <strong>Alien<\/strong>.<strong> Dune<\/strong> (directed by David Lynch) was eventually made after the success of the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> movies, <strong>Alien<\/strong>, and <strong>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Jodorowsky&#8217;s behind-the-scenes essay:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotweird.com\/jodorowsky\/dune.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Story of Dune- &#8216;The Movie You Will Never See<\/a>.  Hosted by Hotweird.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alexandro Jodorowsky In the mid 1970s, surrealist filmmaker Jodorowsky worked to put together his dream version of Dune &#8211; which would include many bizarre elements that author Frank Herbert understandably had problems with. He assembled a dream team of collaborators. French comic artist Moebius contributed some 3000 storyboards. British painter Christopher Foss and Swiss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[78,29,81,80,86,83,82,84,85,79,51],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-versions","tag-alexandro-jodorowsky","tag-alien","tag-christopher-foss","tag-dan-obannon","tag-david-lynch","tag-frank-herbert","tag-h-r-giger","tag-moebius","tag-pink-floyd","tag-salvador-dali","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}