I’m still here wishing that we’d gotten the complete misunderstanding that was Jodorowsky’s Dune. As insulting an adaptation as it would have been, it still would’ve made for a fascinatingly strange experience.
It would have most certainly been a beautiful mess of a movie, but I disagree with Jodorowsky’s plan to make it 14 hours long.
I often wonder about this “14 hours” bit. From the documentary, I got the sense that Jodorowsky was making a statement of artistic freedom, saying hypothetically that if it was his desire to make his film 14 hours long, he should have the right to make it 14 hours long, even if it wasn’t his actual intent for it to be that long. But then Frank Herbert himself supposedly received a copy of Jodorowsky’s screenplay, and it was as thick as a phone book, so I dunno what to believe.