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Storyboards for doomed 'Dune' film up for auction

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Readers here broke this ‘auction’ story Nov 10 with the announcement of Taika Waititi’s taking helm of The Incal, Jodorowsky’s ‘original comic/graphic novel of ideas he envisioned for Dune before David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation: https://gizmodo.com/a-rare-copy-of-jodorowskys-dune-book-is-up-for-auction-1848018620 -

https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/taika-waititi-to-adapt-'the-incal'-comics-for-big-screen
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Acknowledgement to fellow reader @blue for their find of the scanned originals available for viewing online:

*- [@snowymountainhell Jodorowsky’s Dune pitch book is NOW up for auction! - IF you have the cash, get IT before Musk or Bezos do!] “If it’s too expensive, somebody was nice enough to scan the book:*

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNGBuasYa_WETf7sF6Q9W3SN-X7oiB3jrh5QDMMNQPQl9xgS3cua--BhRr-BImP1w?key=QmE1WTR0Z0FtZVFIalpsYVZ3LXFXMS1DUmNiUnR3

It IS impressive and definitely deserves to be published as a ‘coffee table’ gift book before someone locks it away in their private collection.

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Like most Lynch productions, the 1984 version is worth seeing. It has its flaws but the visuals are often impressive and some scenes will definitely stick with you.

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Agreed @GBR48 10:04am. Recommend watching the Dune (1984) extended cuts and/or additional scenes cut by the studios ‘for time’. The final confrontations between Paul, the Reverend Mother, the Emperor and Feyd-Rautha are good but the goodbye with Thufir Hawat, left out of the theatrical cut, is poignant.

- @GBR48 10:04am: “Like most Lynch productions, the 1984 version is worth seeing. It has its flaws but the visuals are often impressive and some scenes will definitely stick with you.” -

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Jodorowsky's failed project is only good for memorabilia. He wanted to make a 12hrs movie back then with Salvadore Dali, Mick Jagger, and Orson Wells. Even with HR Giger and Chris Foss doing visuals, it would've been a fiasco.

Some of my favorite movies have been directed by Lynch but there's a reason why he doesn't want to be associated with Dune. Paul Atreides makes it rain at the end LOL!....., Harkonnens in hazmat suits, weirding way turned into a sonic weapon, terrible inner monologues, pugs, vampiric Baron with pustules, etc, etc.

The Syfy channel had 2 miniseries in the 90's that were more faithful to the novels but lacked the budget. Though the costumes and SFX were terrible, it's not bad if you think of it as a theatre production.

Many say Dune is unadaptable to the big screen. It took a Dune fanatic like Denis Villeneuve who is a great director and who knows how to do sci-fi to give us the best adaptation so far. Only covering the first half of the book in part 1 made Dune fans let out a sigh of relief.

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