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Jodorowsky's "Seven Samurai"

During the early process of pre-production. Jodorowsky assembled a group he called "His Seven Samurai", which were essential to the film's production.

Michel Seydoux

A young Parisian millionaire who was to finance and produce the film.

Jean Giraud

The French comic book artist created over 3,000 pieces of artwork, including storyboarding the entire script.

Chris Foss

The English draughtsman was hired to design the ships and vehicles for the film.

HR Giger

The Swiss painter was hired to design the Harkonnen homeworld after Salvador Dalí showed Alejandro Jodorowsky a HR Giger catalogue.

Dan O'Bannon

After his success with Dark Star, he was to produce the special effects for Jodorowsky's Dune. He moved to Paris for 6 months to work with Eurocitel, a French Special Effects company. He returned to the USA around Christmas 1975 looking for VistaVision equipment when he received word that the Dune project had been cancelled. Alejandro Jodorowsky had originally wanted Douglas Trumbull, who had done the Special Effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Silent Running, but the two did not get along with each other.

Pink Floyd

The group met with Alejandro Jodorowsky in Abbey Road Studios, London and agreed to make almost all the music for Dune. They were also going to realese a two disc album, which was going to be called Dune. It's also been said that Magma was also involved in the score. It was Jodorowsky's idea to use different bands for each planet, creating its own feel and atmosphere.

Salvador Dalí

The Spanish painter agreed to play the role of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV for $100,000 an hour and only spend an hour on the film set a day.

Jim the Dinosaur wrote: Salvador Dalí

The Spanish painter agreed to play the role of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV for $100,000 an hour and only spend an hour on the film set a day.

S4ur0n27 wrote:Holy shit this would have been fucking awesome

Why didn't it work already?

Jodorowsky claimed it was sabotaged by the major studios in Hollywood because it was too French

Jodorowsky wrote a screenplay for Dune in the early 70's; he has stated that he started writing the script before he even read the book. The film would have taken great liberties with Frank Herbert's text, including changing many of the characters and story, making Leto Atreides a eunuch, making the spice melange a blue sponge-like substance and completely changing the ending. It's been noted that Herbert openly despised these concepts. Jodorowsky's initial script would have resulted in a 14 hour film.