The Most Influential SF Movie Never Made

Some years ago I watched a fascinating documentary on Jean Giraud (Moebius), one of the visionaries mentioned here that Jodorowsky gathered under his banner for a time. Before watching this film, I had no real idea how all these guys who were involved in or inspired some of my favourite science fiction had come together. The doco mentions how the original screenplay by Dan O'Bannon for Alien was what he did after the collapse of Jodorowsky's Dune project and that much of the team that had assembled for Jodorowsky's Dune (Giger, O'Bannon, Giraud) went on to work on Alien.

I highly recommend this doco if you are interested in the topic of this post and am pleased to find that it can be viewed here:

http://www.cgexplorer.com/2009/05/05/moebius-redux-video/

I very highly recommend the graphic novel The Incal by Jodorowsky and Mobius.

After Dune fell through, the pair went on to use their Dune inspiration on an incredibly epic and beautiful story. Jodorowsky is known for his mysticism, the story of the Incal is loosely based on the Tarot cards and mixes elements of fantasy, sci-fi, satire, and metaphysics.

Jodorowsky doesn't mess around with his stories. This is a man who released a movie in Mexico which caused full scale riots, and was subsequently banned for its corrupting content.

The Incal may be a little hard to find these days, but it is worth the effort to find and read just to see the work of two men brimming with imagination.

Very informative post, made me add some movies to my Netflix queue. However, I also read it as a cautionary tale for creative people:

"To that end he hired five artists and spent almost 2 million dollars, roughly 1/5th of the film’s entire budget, on art and design in preproduction. Looking back, it seems clear that he was perfectly happy spending his budget in creating, rather than on a creation. The process was the goal, not a finished movie."

Unfortunately, this happens way too often with really creative people and teh phenomenal results that would have been obtained had the project succeeded never get realized.

As awesome as this movie might have been, I'm content with _Dune_ remaining a book -- a beautiful, mind-blowing book. Thank god there weren't any other attempts to adapt it for screen.

I am currently reading Dune and I promised myself to never watch the movie so I can keep the images alive in my head. Did the same with His Dark Materials. And even though the movies were good epic movies, I miss my own Lord of the Rings.

This article is particularly poignant to me, as I watched Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" last night. What a crazy, wild, mysterious, horrifying, over the top movie. The sets are outrageous and one wonders how many drugs he took to come up with it all. However, I could see how his work may not be popular to all as his commentary on society was scathing and often graphic.

I liked Dune. The PC game and movie. It could be imminent that a Hollywood remake is in the works.

Anyone know of good commentary on the causality between sci fi art/books/film and technology? As in, is the artists' work often inspiration for tech or are the artists just making predictions?

Reading just the title, my guess was Blade Runner.

Interesting topic, but the blog post is milking it for two long. It could be shortened to one paragraph with no loss in information.