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@yvan It's a shame Alexandro Jodorowsky's vision for Dune was never completed. Did you see the documentary about it? https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Dune_(unreleased_film)

Dune (unreleased film)

"I have seen the script and it's a damn good script. I'll believe it when I see it.[1]" ―Frank Herbert Dune (Alexandro Jodorowsky) is a cancelled movie proposed by Chilean-French cult film director and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky, and produced by French businessman Michel Seydoux, in 1974. This production became the subject of a documentary released in 2013, Jorodowsky's Dune. The film rights for an adaptation of Dune had been originally purchased by Apjac International (APJ) in 1971, but...

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Yvan

@geoffl I haven't seen the documentary, though now you mention it I realise I kinda glossed over the whole area of artwork... of which I have seen a lot, including Mobius concept art! It's kinda a whole other field of derivative works (one could also include the various book cover art too.)

@yvan
I've watched it a few times since it was released. Would watch again. I think it's available to stream on Apple TV or Prime or...
https://youtu.be/X8R_lvfKo10
with translated subtitles for the bits not in English.

I quite enjoyed the 1980s film but I hadn't read Dune then and had no preconceptions.

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@geoffl I had read the book prior to watching the 1980s film, which I probably watched some time in the mid-90s, maybe later (and I have watched it at least twice since). It's kinda fun, and it is of its era... possibly ahead of its own time even? It got me started as a fan of David Lynch.

I watched the second of the new movies recently and it's in this kinda crap place of trying to take it all too seriously, whilst not really taking it seriously enough in doing so. It just felt kinda long and pointless.

@geoffl feeling inclined to re-watch the Lynch one now actually, it has been a while since I last watched it.

I think my "pretty terrible" above was a bit harsh actually 😂 ... could be a nicer way of putting it.

@yvan I haven't watched the new ones but will do at some point. Did you see what happened when one of the 10 copies of Mobius' artwork came up for sale a few years ago. It beat the estimate by quite a margin.
https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6345488

@geoffl they failed to account for how many rich nerds there are out there...

Wasn't there some thing where something related to this was up for auction and a bunch of crypto bros rasied money to buy it thinking they'd then also have rights to make the film or something?

@geoffl ah, yeah: https://knowyourmeme.com/news/crypto-bros-buy-copy-of-jodorowskys-dune-apparently-thinking-they-were-buying-the-copyright

Crypto Bros Buy Copy Of Jodorowsky's Dune Apparently Thinking They Were Buying The Copyright

For all their grand ambitions, it seems SpiceDAO spent millions of dollars on a mostly public book.

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