Jodorowsky's Dune
“The greatest science fiction movie never made.”
Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
This film feels like a fever dream of boundless creativity, a passionate ode to a cinematic masterpiece that never was. It's an inspiring, bittersweet journey into the mind of a visionary, celebrating the audacious spirit of artistic ambition and the profound impact of unmade dreams on the films that followed.
