Dune's Original Director Has Some Issues With the New Version
Warner Bros.‘official trailer forDuneoffered moviegoers their first glimpse at director Denis Villeneuve’s vision for author Frank Herbert’s novel. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who attempted to adaptDuneinto a feature film before David Lynch eventually took on the project, has now shared his own thoughts on the preview and the filmmaker evidently has concerns about the new version. Jodorowsky, a French-Chilean avant-garde filmmaker then known for films includingEl TopoandThe Holy Mountain, was attached to a direct an adaptation ofDuneafter the rights to the novel were acquired by a French consortium under the leadership producer Jean-Paul Gibon in 1974....