The Film that never was. The 14-hour long adaption of Dune directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and starring Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger, might never see the light of day, but the snippets of what was made by artists HR Giger, Chris Foss, and comic-master Jean "Moebius" Giraud has appeared over the years. Check out this website that has some of the storyboards and character designs by Moebius.
Apparently 2 million dollars of the 9.5 million dollar budget was spent on pre-production. Moebius did storyboards for the whoooooooole script, which was apparent the size of a phone book (according to Frank Herbert). I just hope that one day, that gets released, because i know it would pretty much be a Dune graphic novel. Although some of Giger's design bleed over into David Lynch's adaption, the concept art by Moebius makes me wish it was made. It's so fantastic and otherworldly, I can't even put my head around it. Ever since Peter Jackson did his 11 1/2 hour version of The Lord Of The Rings, i feel like a proper adaption of Dune should be made. Not to say David Lynch's version was terrible, it just had a bad flow. And was confusing. You can't condense a novel like Dune into 137 minutes.
Anyways, here's the link- http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/moebius.asp
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