Dune

Now I don't know if you're me, but if you are me, this would have been pretty great if it actually happened. This is a picture of a sand-worm, inspired by the book Dune by Frank Herbert. It was created by H.R. Giger (one of my favorite artists) for Alejandro Jodorowsky (weirdo/surrealist director of the Holy Mountain and other films) because he was going to direct an adaptation of the book.

Jodorowsky began working in 1975 on an adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. The project was intended to involve his son Brontis Jodorowsky as Paul, Orson Welles as the Baron, Salvador Dalí as the Emperor, Mick Jagger as Feyd Rautha, Alain Delon as Duncan Idaho, Geraldine Chaplin as Lady Jessica, David Carradine as Duke Leto and Gloria Swanson as The Benne Geserit Reverend Mother. Dan O'Bannon for the script, Chris Foss, Pink Floyd, H. R. Giger and Jean Giraud (Mœbius). Ultimately, its funding evaporated, but Jodorowsky claimed it was sabotaged by the major studios in Hollywood because it was too French, a strange claim considering that Jodorowsky, while a naturalized citizen of France, has never identified with any particular country or culture (although the funding and his producer, Jerome Seydoux, were French).

Do you see those names?! It would've ruled! Or at least made my brain melt.

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-James

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