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Alejandro Jodorowsky had originally planned on filming Dune in the early-'70s, setting out to make "a [world-changing] prophet of cinema", a film that was both religious experience and an LSD trip printed onto celluloid. He enlisted the help of Jean 'Moebius' Giraud (Moebius), Chris Foss and H.R. Giger for the visual designs, and Dan O'Bannon to create the special effects. Salvador Dalí was enlisted to play the part of the Emperor, and Jodorowsky also intended to cast his own son Brontis Jodorowsky as Paul, David Carradine as Duke Leto, Orson Welles as the Baron, and Gloria Swanson as the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. The soundtrack was to be done by Pink Floyd, whose compositions would represent the progressive House of Atreides, and influential 70s French progressive rock band Magma, whose compositions would represent the evil House of Harkonnen. However, every Hollywood studio that was approached balked at the movie's estimated length (13-14 hrs), but especially the $15 million budget that Jodorowsky insisted on ($8 million was considered big budget in those days). According to Jodorowsky, "The project was sabotaged in Hollywood. It was French and not American. Their message was 'not Hollywood enough'. There was intrigue, plunder. The storyboard was circulated among all the big studios. Later, the visual aspect of Guerre stellari (1977) strangely resembled our style. To make Alien (1979), they called Moebius, Foss, Giger, O'Bannon, etc. The project signaled to Americans the possibility of making a big show of science-fiction films, outside of the scientific rigor of 2001: Odissea nello spazio (1968). The project of Dune changed our lives."

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