Alejandro Jodorowsky Has Some Strong Words for Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE
Mike Sprague
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Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune hits this December.
And today, Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose failed attempt to take on the book was detailed in the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, says he plans to go see Villeneuve’s version “with pleasure because it will be different. It’s not the same. It’s impossible to do.”
The filmmaker tells IndieWire: “Dune’ is a book that’s like Proust. It’s science fiction but it’s very, very literary. It’s very difficult to find images to put in the film because pictures are optical. When I had the idea to do that, it was in an ecological [crisis]. I was feeling what all the people feel today. We’re in an ecological problem, because the Earth is changing, and your crazy President doesn’t believe that. That is ‘Dune’ in the beginning.”
Jodorowsky said unlike David Lynch’s version, nobody has called him to consult on Villeneuve’s Dune: “When they’re doing ‘Dune’ [in 1984], for the publicity, they said, ‘The picture Jodorowsky cannot do!’ They used me in the publicity. [Now] they don’t want, because I’ll take all the publicity for me! But in the darkness, they’re saying, ‘We’ll now do the big enormous picture Jodorowsky didn’t do! We’ll be fantastic! The director is a genius!’ Nobody can be a genius in Hollywood. Nobody. Because it’s a business.”
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