“Who will hear this movie?” : 50 years ago, Charlotte Ramping refused to play in this science fiction film … who has never seen a daylight!

A science fiction novel Dune Frank Herbert enjoys such a powerful iconic status that it was worn many times (and tried to worship) many times on the screen. David Lynch presented a widely critical version of the novel for the Great Screen in 1984, which was finally overshadowed by modern masterpieces of Dennis Villenu.

However, Lynch and Villenev are not the only directors who have taken the legendary story of Herbert: French-Chili’s avant-garde director Alejandro Jodorovsky, who is known for his films El Topo and Sacred Mountain, also sought the exception of the world of Arrakis.

A promising actor …

If Dune De Lynch was eventually failed, Jodorovsky’s sluggish, including Salvador Dalador, Orson Welles, David Caradine, Allen Delon, Udo Kerry and Mik Jacker, Pink Floyd’s soundtrack and Dan O’Bannon (UFO). Even the ambitious project continued 2 p.

In 2013, Frank Pavich published a documentary film by Jodorowsky’s Dune, which describes in detail the failure of this adaptation and, in an interview with IndieWire, he also made a fascinating recognition on its origin.

One of them is concerned about Charlotte Ramping – who will later perform Reverend Mother Gais Helen Muhim in the version Dennis Villenev. Indeed, during Jodorovsky, the actor played Jessica.

“” “Jodorovsky was going to shoot a part of the film in Algeria. They were talking to the Algerian government and the Algerian army was going to play supplements. Jodorovsky He was looking for who was going to play Jessica and she wanted a strong and beautiful woman, not a weak and delicate woman. A person who has a true spiritual power. She saw the film with Charlotte Ramling and thought she would be perfectE ” – explained Frank Pavich.

… But the vision is a little bold?

When the director met the actor to discuss the script, he showed his vision in more detail, but the scene was particularly shocked …

“” “They sent the script to Charlotte Ramping and she agreed to meet Jodo before reading it. And in the scenario there is a scene character named Raban Beast, which is part of the Harconen Army. In order to offend the Duke of Leto, David Caradine, Raban’s beast commands his army, the Algerian army, to reduce pants and evaluate. Thus, there will be a scene of ecstasy of 2000 that will defeat at the same time.»

Thus, the scene was not well received by Rampling, who did not want to participate on the screen at such a vulgar moment. Pavich explains: “VOici Charlotte Rampling, he agrees to meet Jodo, he gets a script, he reads him and says: “I can’t be in a movie where there are 2000 additional information on the screen, who should be in a movie that people really see! Who will see this movie?”»

In addition to this bold -tot scene, Alejandro Jodorovsky It was also planned to implement Dun’s own version, namely interpretation that would not be loyal to books.

Charlotte Ramping So he refused to role – curiosity, Rebecca Ferguson also almost refused to play Lady Jessica – because of a particularly suspicious scene, Jodorovsky then said: “”It was a great disappointment for me. Great frustration.»

Is possible that Charlotte Ramping With this in mind when we offered him a role in Duna Dennis Villenev. Although it was probably enthusiastic about the prospect of solving classical science fiction Frank HerbertHe was not ready to take his name into the mud in a film that includes a scene that he considered a great vulgarity.

A non -existent film influential

Today, unrealized sluggishAlejandro Jodorovsky It is believed to be influenced precisely because he has never seen the light of day. With his ambition and budget, the discontinued film, however, allowed the artist HR Giger, who caught the latter with artistic concepts Foreign. Thus, there is an emblem play in the history of cinema, when the director felt that there was no restriction on the forces of the film, even if his idea was finally slightly bold to become a reality.

The first Dune de Denis villeneuve should be discussed in Max or Netflix, and the second is available on Mycanal. As for David Lynch’s Duna, curious people can find it in Vod.