August 9, 2014'Jodorowsky's Dune' was a fantastic documentary about possibly the greatest film never made. Alejandro Jodorowsky took over the rights to make a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel, Dune, in 1975 and immediately began amassing an impressive group of incredibly talented people to work on it including artists H.R. Giger (pre-Alien), Jean Giraud, and Chris Foss, as well as Dan O'Bannon for the special effects, Pink Floyd for the music, and featuring a bizarre collection of actors including Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine, and a bunch more. Not only was the cast and crew unprecedented, the script was apparently immaculate. It was close to 1000 pages and filled almost entirely with beautiful artwork for set designs and concepts. Ultimately and unfortunately the film was never made, due primarily to backers pulling out because they didn't feel comfortable with Jodorowsky's strange filmography (Fando y Lis, El Topo, Holy Mountain) and they thought audiences wouldn't be interested. The script was sent to every major studio, however, and was purportedly the inspiration for many of the films we know and love today (including Star Wars).
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