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Aug 8, 2021 · In 1974, Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Dune, and producer Michel Seydoux approached Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain) about bringing Herbert’s epic novel to the big screen.
Jean-Paul Gibon is a French film producer. He was set to be a producer on Alejandro Jodorowsky's film adaptation of Dune before it was cancelled. He is interviewed in the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune.
- Enthusiastic Admiration
- Insane Emperor
- Truths Alchemists
- 3,000 Drawings
- Metaphysical Horror
- 100,000 Dollars An Hour
- Amanda Lear
- Not Enough Hollywood
To show the process of illumination of a hero, then a people, then a whole planet (which in its turn is the Messiah of the Universe since by giving up its orbit, the holy planet leaves to spread its light throughout all the galaxies)... I did not want to respect the novel, I wanted to recreate it. For me Dune did not belong to Herbert as Don Quixot...
In my version of Dune, the Emperor of the galaxy is insane. He lives on an artificial gold planet, in a gold palace built according to not-laws of antilogical. He lives in symbiosis with a robot identical to him. The resemblance is so perfect that the citizens never know if they are opposite the man or the machine... In my version, the spice is a b...
To conceive this final sequence of transmutation of the matter, I was likely to come into contact with true alchemists... Mysterious beings (one of them seemed to be more than one hundred of years, advanced age which however enabled him to move with an energy of young teenager) which approached me because Dune could be a philosopher stone, the ston...
I needed a precise script... I wanted to carry out film on paper before filming it... These days all films with special effect are done as that, but at the time this technique was not used. I wanted a draughtsman of comic strips who has the genius and the speed, who can be used as me as a camera and who gives at the same time a visual style... I wa...
After I found Giger, a Swiss painter whose catalogue Dalí had shown me... His art declining, sick, suicidal, brilliant, was perfect to carry out the Harkonnen planet... He made a project of castle and planet which really touched with the metaphysical horror. (later, he carried out the sets and the monster of Alien.) For the special effects, thanks ...
With the best music on our side, I started to seek the actors. I had seen Charlotte Rampling in Zardoz. I wanted her for Jessica. She refused the role. She wanted at that time to make two or three commercial films, the love of life interesting her more than art. David Carradine came to Paris, interested by the role of Leto. The actor that I wished ...
Dalí accepts. Me, I think that the battle will be formidable. It will be necessary that I find questions which have only one answer. And, it will be necessary that I envisage his answers as failures. For example, if I ask how will be equipped the Emperor, it is quite possible that he answers me: "In the 20 century, Dalí will be regarded as God, as ...
Me, I liked to fight for Dune. Almost all the battles were won, but the war was lost. The project was sabotaged in Hollywood. It was French and not American. Its message was not "enough Hollywood". There were intrigues, plundering. The story-board circulated among all the large studios. Later, the visual aspect of Star Wars resembled our style. To ...
In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights from APJ, with director Alejandro Jodorowsky set to direct.
In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights from APJ, with director Alejandro Jodorowsky set to direct.
As outlined in the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, Chilean filmmaker/provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky and producer Jean-Paul Gibon picked up the rights from Jacobs’ company in 1974. The...
Jean-Paul Gibon is known for Du côté des tennis (1976), F... comme Fairbanks (1976) and Lily, aime-moi (1975).
