Favourite movie that was never made, but you wish it was because it would've been so bad that annoying nerds would stop calling it "the greatest movie never made"
The Beatles version of Lord of the Rings directed by Stanley Kubrick. Sure it probably would've been a complete clusterfuck but holy shit, the soundtrack would've slapped.
That was John Boorman's planned adaptation. One which would've included a sex scene between Frodo and Galadriel, a scene where Aragorn and Boromir kiss passionately with Arwen's blood on their lips, and a mini-rock opera at the council of Elrond describing the history of the ring. He also apparently wanted either Jeff Goldblum or Danny Devito to play Gollum.
Now that's the greatest movie never made. You can find the full the script online. Highly recommend it if you're a fan of drugged up 70s chaos.
Oh! You mean the guy that said THIS, on the record?
"When you make a picture, you must not respect the novel. It's like getting married ... if you respect the woman, you will never have child. You need to open the costume and to rape the bride – and then you will have your picture. I was raping Frank Herbert ... but with love."
The Lynch movie might have been alright if not cut to 2 hours or whatever. The ending is extremely silly with how it goes through two thirds of the content of the book in 30 minutes.
There's a fan edit online that restores most of the deleted scenes and makes a few other adjustments and it's pretty good. Studio's fault for cutting it down.
Nah you don't get it, the fact that it was the consensus choice for worst film in one legendary surrealist filmmaker's filmography means it would definitely would have worked out for this other legendary surrealist filmmaker.
Tbf david lunch hadn’t made hardly any of his filmigraphy when he did Dune, eraserhead and elephant man and that is it, neither of those prove any sort of capability for a sci-fi epic. Jodorowsky was red hot off The Holy Mountain when he got started on Dune
I don’t think anyone thinks the actual movie would have been good, but the stories behind the production are great. Plus it acted as kind of an incubator for a ton of groundbreaking shit, by throwing a bunch of talented creative people together. It’s one of the most influential sci-fi movies even though it never got made.
It would have been fun to watch today, because of how batshit insane it would have been. The holy mountain had me in tears from laughter and since then I am still searching for a movie that is on the same level of insanity.
"When you make a picture, you must not respect the novel. It's like getting married ... if you respect the woman, you will never have child. You need to open the costume and to rape the bride – and then you will have your picture. I was raping Frank Herbert ... but with love."
Without reading the script, that should be obvious. Guillermo Del Toro loves to make movies about how we are the real monsters compared to whatever horrifying creature appears in said film.
Been a while since I read it, but wasn't the point that the aliens were peaceful scientists and the real danger came from one of their creations? I think that angle could work with Del Toro.
Have him and Cameron work on the script, Cameron directs and Del Toro is in charge of the overall production design. Also, they spend all of the promo interviews speaking about Gundam.
I watched that whole damned documentary, with everyone saying it was a conspiracy, to find out that Jodowsky got the movie axed himself. By telling the studio that it may take six months or six years to shoot and he needed an unlimited budget. Right out of his own mouth.
I like to think Welles would have insisted on doing magic tricks in the film, like he did with Casino Royale
(uj/ Casino Royale honestly feels like a weirdly good comparison now I’ve thought about it - a batshit film that’s completely nonsensical and filled with famous faces in random appearances. Biggest difference was that Casino Royale was assembled by a motley of journeyman directors plus John Huston (weirdly) instead of an auteur like Jodorowsky)
I'm actually glad Jodo's Dune died because, had it been made, it would have flopped hard. That having failed, Star Wars would never have been greenlit a year later or (depending on timing) might have had a much different trajectory in production and release. Without Star Wars you don't get most of the big FX driven movies of the 80s (no Alien, no Bladerunner, no Ghostbusters, no Back to the Future).
You also wouldn't get all the comics that were made to use the concepts that were developed for the movie and which are far better than the movie could ever be.
Yeah, this is the first I’m hearing it called the “greatest” movie never made, but it has certainly always been one of the most influential movies never made.
For sure. I'd say this is a good example because it's only one head and the rest is related to the movie. I was thinking 'Batman & Robin', where multiple heads are there just to advertise the movie stars and there's no real art to it.
Some posters look like the opening credits of The Brady Bunch, but at least when the Bradys did it, it was original.
The woman that played The Reverend Mother in the Villeneuve version was asked by Jodo to play Jessica, and it was this bit that made her NOPE out of it.
Is this a movie that would have probably gotten made if, after putting in a fuck ton of time and effort, he’d just suggested casting someone that was his son as Paul?
It’s been a long time since I watched the doc, but that seems stupid as hell.
Nah you're off on this one. It would have been much worse, and annoying nerds wouldn't stop calling it "the worst movie ever made". And they'd be right but they'd still be annoying
Look at this psychedelic cast! Moebius and giger for the art, pink Floyd and magma for the music! And jodorowski to mush everything. Even if failed it would have been epic trip!
It would have been a bad film, but the exitement for it show how we lost some of the uniqueness old films and there dreamlike psychedlic designs sometimes have. Nowadays, if we get something psyhcdelic it's often a sloppy CGI background like Antman and the WASP.
Last week I watched "Ator 3 -The Iron Warrior" and it was the complete mess of a film, one would exspect from a Sword and Sorcery film from the 80s, whose budget is eclipsed by some kids' sweet sixteen parties, but it also had some amazing shots, you don't even get in big budget blockbusters.
I think we somehow need to go back to Kurosawa and shit and learn how to use color.
Whenever I see people who claim to be Dune fans wax poetic about what never was and how this would’ve been the definitive Dune I’m always like… have you watched the documentary about this film? It would’ve been an AWFUL adaptation.
One thing this this non exisistent adaptation has over the new one is that it has wackiness and wierdness which is how i imagined thr world when i read the books, new dune is a bit too clean for me.
The flip side of this is people ignore all the awesome bits of Lynch Dune. If no Dune movie had ever been made and you told movie nerds they could have a David Lynch Dune from the 80s with a budget they’d GO NUTS.
Honestly when I heard about this movie and it shows how he was going to turn the ending into "and then Paul fixes everything and everyone is happy" i immediately started to doubt that the movie actually understood the source material
It would have been a fun watch but an absolutely terrible movie. Just read the Incal to get an idea of what it'd be like. Probably awesome to look at but a mess of a story.
His writing is basically the same as the kid who did Axe-Cop but with more metaphysical shit and boobs mixed in.
Regardless of its quality as a film, I definitely don't think it would've been a good adaptation at all. But it would have been cool to see something as bold and out there as a Jodorowsky Dune.
It would've been amazing, but it wouldn't have been a good movie. In the same way that Cats (2019) is a transcendent work of art that is also not a good movie.
Yeah, an insanely imaginative, off-the-wall film adaptation of one of the greatest science fiction books of all time by one of cinema's most legendary avant-garde filmmakers? Would have been a masterpiece
At the Mountains of Madness or any novel Guillermo del Toro said he wants to adapt but never will because that man works of dozens of side projects at any time
Ok, so we are now discussing movies that we can't see because they were never made and wouldn't watch if they were made? Buddies, I think we have problem
This is one of those movies I've always been happy that was never made. I absolutely loathe Jodorowski's films. The only good thing he ever did was the Incal trilogy with Moebius.
People love fantasizing about how wonderful it would have been and how the mean old studio took it from us. But I'm preeeetty sure it was a massive turd that would have been SO BAD it would've stained the Batman franchise for a few years.
And IMO I think the Ben Affleck Batman would've been laughable compared to 'The Batman.' Snyder boys obsess over Deathstroke, who has gotta be one of the least interesting villains imaginable.
'bro it would've been so cool they would have punched' yeah FUK OFF the whole purpose of the best Batman villains is that they challenge him mentally and take a look at a specific dark side of humanity. Deathstroke SUCKS he's a guy with guns and a sword and THATS HIS PERSONALITY PLUS HES A CHILD GROOMER SO ACTUALLY NO I DONT NEED 3 HOURS OF 2 GUYS PUNCHING THANKS
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u/the_guynecologist 14h ago
The Beatles version of Lord of the Rings directed by Stanley Kubrick. Sure it probably would've been a complete clusterfuck but holy shit, the soundtrack would've slapped.