The film’s writer-director was Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean-born avant-garde theatre veteran who made two of the most gloriously surreal films of the 1970s - or, indeed, any other decade. Why Hitchcock’s Kaleidoscope was too shocking to be made Gladiator 2: The strangest sequel never made? The most significant and impressive screen version of Frank Herbert’s science-fiction bestseller is one that was never actually made. Nor do I refer to the mini-series that was on the US cable channel Sci-Fi (now called Syfy) in 2000. I don’t mean the David Lynch version from 1984, which should be lodged near the top of any sensible list of the worst films in history. But Villeneuve, the French-Canadian director of Sicario, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, will need all the help he can get if his film is to compete with an earlier adaptation of the same novel. The Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet is its star the supporting actors include Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Rampling, and Jason Momoa. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, which is due out next year, looks as if it might have one of the all-time great casts.
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