While people had a rise in making fun of the cryptobros who paid 3 million dollars for a copy of the concept book for Jodorowsky's Dune, I couldn't help but note the mean spirited retardation from retards who don't know anything about how the transaction works nor did they had any idea of the operation and how it's being conducted.

Number 1: No, Jodorowsky's Dune is NOT available online for free. Those aren't scans, they're fan-made compilations of screencaps from documentaries and publicly released material from varying sources gathered in an attempt to present the most complete unnoficial version without EVER having touched one of the 20 copies of the book.

Number 2: No, it hasn't leaked online either. ONE of the earlier drafts with artwork made before Moebius' involvement were indeed bought by a collector who has shared it with the community in the form of an outline, but obviously for legal reasons IT CANNOT BE SHARED in its actual entirety.

And finally Number 3: It's NOT a copy of Frank Herbert's Dune. It's CONCEPT ART for Jodorowsky's Dune, meaning that ALL of the artwork produced by Moebius, Chris Foss, HR Giger, Dan O' Bannon, Salvador Dali, PLUS the budgeting details, actors and crew bios, shooting scheduling and FULL SCRIPT AND STORYBOARDS are compiled there. It was a book supposed to circulate within Hollywood shareholder circles to prove the viability of the project, NOT a mere pitch document that can be downloaded off the internet.

So you can probably get an idea of how aggravating it is to see people use this as an excuse to poke fun at cryptofags for "not understanding how things work and making an ass of themselves", when they themselves have no fucking clue of what's going on, and these people feel like they have the right to VOTE. jeez.

If the project is real, and there is a chance an animated Jodorowsky's Dune is made, I would be the first one to champion it. I even wrote a little request to the animated studio doing it (if they ever do it), not as a fact that THIS would make the film better, but that to me, it would be the most fulfilling and unique way of doing it, at the risk of sounding like a pretentious idiot.

Thank you, and God bless you.

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I think if a Jodorowky's Dune animated film should ever be made, it should not only honor the artists that worked on concepting, storyboarding and production design of the film, it should honor the film techniques and cinematography of the period as close as possible.

It shouldn't look like an animated film, it should look like a big budget science-fiction film would look shot in the 70s, before Star Wars, before ILM, which means film grain, gate weaving, emulating the look of how they were going to shoot it, be it Technirama, Todd-AO or VistaVision. Going out of your way to emulate stop motion creatures, optical printings and chemical compositing, backscreen projections, clunky animatronics and motion controlled camera work.

The Moebius designs shouldn't look like Moebius drew them, they should look like what one of those costumes would look like if it was physically tailored and worn by an actor, the characters mustn't look unspecific or exactly as they were drawn on the page, they should look like the actors that were going to play them, David Carradine, Orson Welles, Charlotte Rampling, Mick Jagger.

The sets need to look like sets, and matte painting extensions must look like how matte painting extensions used to look like.

Because NOT having been made in the 70s IS part of Jodorowsky's Dune's identity, the historical denial that was getting this film made. You have a chance to make it real and to make it truly appealing and to have an extremely UNIQUE look to everything. Peter Jackson recreated the lost King Kong deleted scenes with the same techniques used in the original 30s King Kong, Brad Bird went back and animated new scenes for the Iron Giant in traditional 2D animation, it's totally viable, and it's what I dream of.

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