Niedoszłe arcydzieło, które odmieniło kino
Unmade Masterpiece, which Transformed the Cinema

Summary/Abstract: In 2015 fifty years pass since the cult science fiction novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert was first published. Marcin Giżycki recalls the unusual fate of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film project based on the novel. The project prepared in 1974-1976 was never realised, but the director managed to put together a fantastic team for its making: the cartoonist Jean Giraud (known under the pseudonym Moebius), illustrators Cris Foss and H. R. Giger and special effects specialist and writer Dan O’Bannon (all of them worked later on Ridley Scott’s Alien). The planned cast included amongst others Orson Welles, David Carradine, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí. The ideas of Jodorovsky and his team were used later on in great Hollywood productions, amongst others (apart from "Alien"): "Star Wars", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and "Blade Runner". In this manner Jodorowsky’s "Dune" became the most influential film that never was.

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