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1. Lynch’s Dune is artistically brilliant, but it was supposed to be 3 – 4 hours long. Universal Pictures hacked it down to 137 minutes, making it incomprehensible to anyone unfamiliar with the source material.

   I want to see this version:

   [Alejandro] Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten hour feature, in collaboration with Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize and Mick Jagger. The music would be composed by Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen or Pink Floyd. Jodorowsky set up a pre-production unit in Paris consisting of Chris Foss, a British artist who designed covers for science fiction periodicals, Jean Giraud (Moebius), a French illustrator who created and also wrote and drew for Metal Hurlant magazine, and H. R. Giger. Moebius began designing creatures and characters for the film, while Foss was brought in to design the film’s space ships and hardware. Giger began designing the Harkonnen Castle based on Moebius’ storyboards, and Dali was cast as the Emperor with a reported salary of $100,000 an hour.

   

   Jared

   6 Jan 10 at 9:40 am
2. HR Giger on making Dune:

   I returned [to] Switzerland, stupidly leaving my current girlfriend in Cadaqués, where Dali used her as a model and tried to couple her with a young hippie. Dali wanted to celebrate the ceremony himself and supervise the accompanying rituals, in his own special way. I was secretly amused by the whole affair, as I had just read John Fowles’ The Magnus and quite understood what the old fox was up to.

   

   Jared

   6 Jan 10 at 12:06 pm

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