The Greatest Film Never Made

JODOROWSKY’S DUNE

“I wanted to make a film that gives LSD hallucinations without taking LSD.” The crazy man Alejandro Jodorowsky behind The Holy Mountain and El Topo finally releases secrets about the greatest film never made. Jodorowsky gives us insight on his insanely ambitious movie and what could have been. What is most interesting about Dune is that if it came to fruition, it may have came out 5 years before Star Wars. Star wars changed the film industry because of the special effects it invented and showed producers what audiences wanted in a general film. We see these massive Hollywood productions with thousands of special effect and green screens all with a basic hero vrs. evil plot directly relating to the success of Star Wars. Jodorowsky’s Dune would have had the same amount of practical effects never done before, much before Star Wars and not long after 2001: Space Odyssey. Would a film this massive change the way Hollywood pushes massive movies? It’s extremely possible, as the impact of this movie would have been for decades, just like his other films. The difference between Jodorowsky’s other films and Dune was the innovation in technicality mixing with his insane vision of art. Maybe Transformers would end up being an avante-garde midnight show at Sundance?