I had no idea that Superman (1978) cost $55 million. 

I re-watched Jodorowski's Dune for the first time in 3 years.
Two things that jumped out at me that I had forgotten:
1) Orson Welles was gonna play the Baron - who's in for crowdfunding Maurice Lamarche to do some of his lines on cameo?
2) "I raped Frank Herbert! I raped him!" How did I forget that moment?!?!
I was reading a wikpedia entry on some-one the other day who'd been considering a role in that film but they turned it down (can't remember the actor's name).
Seems they weren't impressed with one scene were 1000s of extras would take a simultaneous crap.
IMO Jodorowski's Dune would have been horrendous, as would have been Ridley Scott's. Then again, the Dune we did get was pretty horrible (again, IMO).
As it is remains a crazy what if that definitely impacted film to come.
So Cineplex is planning on re-opening across Canada for Tenet, which Dune will likely be attached too. Anyone ready to actually return to a movie theatre? I'm going to be passing. I waited a month after the gym re-opened to make sure it wasn't spreading Covid, I will be doing the same with movie theatres.
^ If you're referring to casting like Patrick Stewart there are plenty of Marvel ones though.
My Dune fandom is predicated entirely on Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's stories (don't @ me), but I really want to see this new cinematic version of the original tale of Arakkis and collect the Funko Pops, all of which look pretty neat.
And really speaking, it wasn't Dune that had a Trek connection in the first instance; it was TNG that had a Dune connection...^ If you're referring to casting like Patrick Stewart there are plenty of Marvel ones though.
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