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Lynch shares a few memories of Lucasfilm back in the day from his distinctly non-fan point of view.
Why David Lynch Turned Down Return of the Jedi
(Sorry if this is a re-post.)
Where were you in '77?
Why David Lynch Turned Down Return of the Jedi
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The irony is that I recall a clueless critic or two accusing Dune of ripping off Star Wars.
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I mentioned this in another thread, but Star Wars might also have another Dune connection. The director of the earlier, unmade Dune film project claims that his storyboards were passed around Hollywood in the 1970s and may have influenced the look of Star Wars. Some of the artists Moebius, Chris Foss, Giger and writer Dan O'Bannon on that film, went on to work on Alien and other science fiction movies.
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I've long thought Tattooine being a desert planet, and Han Solo being in hock to Jabba for losing a shipment of "spice", must be homages to the Dune novel.
Where were you in '77?
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As a matter of fact, Herbert (along with Asimov) felt that Star Wars was derivative to his own work and hated it. Also, it has been said in one of the drafts in ANH that the death star plans were supposed to be a treasure chest of spice.
Plus, why do you think C3PO said: "we'll be sent to the spice mines in Kessel for sure?" in the beginning of ANH?
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neebis said:
I mentioned this in another thread, but Star Wars might also have another Dune connection. The director of the earlier, unmade Dune film project claims that his storyboards were passed around Hollywood in the 1970s and may have influenced the look of Star Wars. Some of the artists Moebius, Chris Foss, Giger and writer Dan O'Bannon on that film, went on to work on Alien and other science fiction movies.
Yeah, but Jodorowski is certifiably insane.
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Yeah, but Jodorowski is certifiably insane.
He showed up at the 2000 Chicago Underground film festival, saw Santa Sangre and El Topo, having known nothing about him before, the movies were interesting and he came across as just another old man who had made some very interesting movies.
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Yeah, but Jodorowski is certifiably insane.
He showed up at the 2000 Chicago Underground film festival, saw Santa Sangre and El Topo, having known nothing about him before, the movies were interesting and he came across as just another old man who had made some very interesting movies.
Perhaps he's mellowed. He was pretty dam n wacky back in the day.
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And this in a thread about David Lynch.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
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A Jodorowski Star Wars film would be a brilliant loop-the-loop.
Though I imagine it would involve more than one arm coming off at a time going by his track record.
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I think I need to see some Jodorowski films now.
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I highly recommend the documentary about him, Jodorowsky's Dune.
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Santa Sangre is one of my favourite films and what a wonderful Vader origin story that would of made ;-D
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I Have el topo sitting on the shelf still have not managed to put it kn yet. Heard it's good though.
Lynchian ewoks :) i will leave it to yours and my imagination. they would be very weird though much more weird yes.
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El Topo is extremely weird.
I think all art needs to be judged solely on it's own merit as a work, BUT it's worth in El Topo's case to check out the wierd, almost shamanistic process Jodorowsky used. Very interesting.