10 Famous Movies Almost Helmed By Directors You'd Never Expect

6. Alejandro Jodorowsky Almost Directed Dune

dunefightDune is one of David Lynch's less popular films, and that's partly due to the fact that the production process was relatively nightmarish, and because it just isn't very good. It's quite dull, in fact, and hasn't aged particularly well. Lynch came on board to Dune without any knowledge of the book or wasn't particularly interested in science-fiction genre, two things which should have set off warning lights for the movie's producers. Originally, though, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to get Dune off the ground... Would It Have Been Any Good? It would certainly have been something, given that Jodorowsky planned to direct a 14-hour movie version and cast Salvador Dalí as the Emperor. Bizarrely, Dalí demanded to be paid $100,000 per hour and Jodorowsky agreed, which - you can imagine - meant that funding would have dried up pretty quickly. Which it did. Jodorowsky did create the brilliantly surreal acid western El Topo in 1970, though, so this would have likely ended up being something - at least - memorable. But long. Way too long.
 
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