![]() ![]() Perhaps inevitably, the production collapsed before filming could even begin. Giger, music by Pink Floyd, and starring Salvador Dali as the Emperor of the Known Universe. The avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky famously tried adapting it in the mid-1970s, with production designs by H.R. ![]() There are mutant navigators, a psychic sisterhood, desert people with glowing blue eyes and – in the corpulent form of Baron Harkonnen – a flying, morbidly obese paederast. The source material is a space epic like no other the story of a feudal, intergalactic human empire in which the Padishah Emperor, noble Atreides and barbaric Harkonnen scheme and battle for control of a space-bending spice called Melange. Perhaps a similar thought process lay behind the decision, by Dino and his daughter and protégé Rafaella, to pick an even more outré filmmaker, David Lynch, for their big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. In his husky Italian accent, Laurentiis replied, “Because I like your face.” The director Mike Hodges (of getting Carter fame ) tells the story of how, on first meeting producer Dino De Laurentiis, he asked why he – a director of thrillers – had been chosen for the camp sci-fi extravaganza Flash Gordon. In the latest in our series of essays defending the indefensible novelist David Llewellyn pens a love letter to David Lynch’s much-maligned movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic fantasy novel, Dune. ![]()
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