18
Sep
“They tried and failed? All of them?” So goes the question Paul Atreides asks the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam early in Frank Herbert’s Dune. While the powerful Bene Gesserit answers far more harshly than is required for a discussion about the making of movies, Paul’s brief meditation on the failure of those who came before him is still appropriate when thinking about the many attempts to bring the legendary sci-fi novel to the screen. One of those attempts came from Alejandro Jodorowsky, who spent years working on a Dune movie that never came to be, and might just be…