When it’s all said and done, I’m glad this film never happened. For one, it’s collapse led to things like Alien and more indirectly, Blade Runner. But more importantly, I love Jodorwosky’s films and Herbert’s books immensely. And separately. Jodo’s version veered too far from the source material, yet that source material would still be holding him back from being the unhinged creator I know him to be. Better that he get his own version of the story out through things like The Incal, The Metabarons, and The Technopriests.

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, pictured above, was allegedly going to be played by Orson Welles.