Jodorowsky's Dune

Jodorowsky's Dune
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Directed by	Frank Pavich
Produced by	Frank Pavich Stephen Scarlata Travis Stevens
Starring	Alejandro Jodorowsky Michel Seydoux H. R. Giger Chris Foss Nicolas Winding Refn Amanda Lear Richard Stanley
Music by	Kurt Stenzel
Cinematography	David Cavallo
Edited by	Paul Docherty Alex Ricciardi
Production company	City Film Snowfort Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date	May 18, 2013 (2013-05-18) (Cannes) March 21, 2014 (2014-03-21)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States France
Language	English French German Spanish
Box office	$647,280

Jodorowsky's Dune is a 2013 American-French documentary film directed by Frank Pavich. The film explores cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune in the mid-1970s.

In 1973, film producer Arthur P. Jacobs optioned the film rights to Dune but died before a film could be developed. The option was then taken over two years later by director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who proceeded to approach, among others, Virgin Records, with the prog rock groups Tangerine Dream, Gong and Mike Oldfield before settling on Pink Floyd and Magma for some of the music; artists H. R. Giger, Chris Foss, and Jean Giraud for set and character design; Dan O'Bannon for special effects; and Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Mick Jagger, Amanda Lear, and others for the cast. Jodorowsky intended for his son Brontis, 12 years old at the start of pre-production, to star as Paul Atreides.