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JODOROWSKY’S DUNE New Poster Arrives
The new poster for director Frank Pavich’s JODOROWSKY’S DUNE is here.
It is the story of legendary cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s staggeringly ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel DUNE.
JODOROWSKY’S DUNE is Pavich’s first feature and the documentary had its premiere in Cannes at the 2013 Quinzaine des Realizateurs.
In 1975, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet.
Starring his own 12 year old son Brontis alongside Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, featuring music by Pink Floyd and art by some of the most provocative talents of the era, including HR Giger and Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, Jodorowsky’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel DUNE was poised to change cinema.
“For me, Dune will be the coming of a god. I wanted to make something sacred, free, with new perspective. Open the mind!”
-Alejandro Jodorowsky
For two years, Jodo and his team of “spiritual warriors” worked night and day on the massive task of creating the fabulous world of DUNE: over 3,000 storyboards, numerous paintings, incredible costumes, and an outrageous, moving and powerful script.
“In that time, I say, if I need to cut my arms in order to make that picture, I will cut my arms. I was even ready to die doing that.”
-Alejandro Jodorowsky
In the words of Jodorowsky’s producer, Michel Seydoux, “It should have been enough. But it wasn’t.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky. Photo by David Cavallo, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
Through interviews with legends and luminaries including HR Giger (artist, ALIEN), Gary Kurtz (producer, STAR WARS), Devin Faraci (BADASS Digest.com), Drew McWeeny (HITFIX), and Nicolas Winding Refn (director, DRIVE and ONLY GOD FORGIVES), and an intimate and honest conversation with Jodorowsky filmed over the course of three years, director Pavich’s film -featuring never-before-seen realizations of Jodo’s mind blowing psychedelic space opera (animated by Emmy Award nominated Syd Garon) -finally unearths the full saga of ‘The Greatest Movie Never Made’.
JODOROWSKY’S DUNE will have it’s North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10 and at the BFI London Film Festival in October. It will also screen at Fantastic Fest 2013.
Sony Pictures Classics will open the film March 7, 2014 in NY and LA.
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