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How 'Dune' almost prevented 'Star Wars' from ever being

Remember how bad the movie "Dune" was? Well, it didn't have to be that way. The film, directed by David Lynch in 1984, was so terrible, David Lynch eventually took his name off of it. But Lynch wouldn't have had a chance to direct "Dune" if its original director had been able to get it made back in the mid-1970s. That man's name is Alejandro Jodorowsky, and his epic failure to get "Dune" to the big screen is the subject a documentary that has become a hit at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. "Jodorowsky's Dune" tells the tale of the director's mad plan to recruit a cast including David Carradine, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger to his movie adaptation of the wildly popular sci-fi book. Oh yeah, and Pink Floyd was doing the soundtrack. "What we try to get across in the film is his whole notion of ambition," the documentary's director, Frank Pavek, told FOX411. "Jodorowsky said 'it's so incredible to be alive and to be here on planet Earth, why wouldn't you have ambition? You n...

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  1. From Spain to Florida: new Dali exhibit begins

    In the mid-1920s, a young Salvador Dali was searching for his style.He painted a startlingly lifelike basket of bread in a typical Renaissance form. He dabbled in cu...

  2. Picasso, Monets stolen in Dutch heist

    Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millio...

  3. 2 members of French family dead in seaside cliff fall while fleeing raging Spain wildfire

    As a wildfire closed in on them, five members of a vacationing French family abandoned their car and stumbled through thick smoke down a steep hillside in a desperat...

  4. 2 killed after family jumps into sea in attempt to flee Spain fire

    A French man and one of his three children died after they jumped along with his wife off a 164-foot cliff into the sea to flee a wildfire that forced them out of th...

  5. Raging northeast Spain wildfires leave 3 dead

    Two wildfires fanned by strong winds killed three people and severely disrupted transportation in Spain's northeast region of Catalonia on Sunday, officials said.Tra...

  6. Police find stolen Dali painting at JFK Airport

    The New York Police Department has cracked the case of the stolen Salvador Dali painting after it was mysteriously mailed back to New York from Europe, the New York ...

  7. Man posing as customer steals Dali painting from NYC gallery; police searching

    A thief who swiped a Salvador Dali painting off the wall of a New York art gallery may have escaped, but experts say the painting will likely be recovered when it co...

  8. Vegas judge grants Wayne Newton restraining order against landlord in celebrity museum deal

    A judge granted Wayne Newton a temporary restraining order against his landlord Thursday amid stalled plans to turn his lavish Las Vegas estate into a celebrity muse...

  9. Pop art collected by Gunter Sachs, ex-husband of Bridget Bardot, to be auctioned in London

    A modern art collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Salvador Dali, will be sold next week in London, Sotheby's said Saturday.The works were...

  10. Top attractions in Paris

    Paris has been romanticized in so many stories, books, movies, poems and songs that it seems almost redundant to embellish it with any more superlatives. The truth i...

  11. 5 must-see sites on a Venice vacation

    It may sound like hyperbole, but Venice is one of the most distinctive and striking places in the world. So beautiful is the city’s iconic network of canals, islands...

  12. Seized Narco Assets Stolen, Lost In Colombia

    BOGOTA, Colombia -- After police gunned down the notorious Colombian drug trafficker Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha in 1989, his sprawling cattle ranch was among the first ...

  1. 6 'perfect' date ideas from a man's perspective

    I've got nothing against picnics. But if you think a wicker basket full of French cheese and Chardonnay is going to put a guy in the mood, think again. It'll just pu...

  2. Salvador Dali painting snatched from New York art gallery

    Police are looking for a suspect who stole a $150,000 Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery.Police say the man walked into the Venus Over Manhattan art...

  3. Man charged with taking Dali work from New York gallery

    A Greek man proved inept at the art of thievery by swiping a Salvador Dali painting from a New York City gallery as security cameras rolled and, in a panic, later tr...

  4. Hello, Dali! Hand-signed original shows up at Washington state thrift shop

    An original, hand-signed etching by surrealist painter Salvador Dali reportedly showed up at a Goodwill in Washington state last week.The etching, titled "Reflection...

  5. Historic ship short on funds and time

    The SS United States is sending out what may be its final distress call.The 990-foot-long ship could be sold for scrap within two months unless the grass-roots prese...

  6. Chileans get spot to indulge in frowned-on siestas

    Cars honk, people yell and radios blare outside, yet Carmen Castillo is getting a rejuvenating midday nap in downtown Santiago, snoozing away her stress in a dreamla...

  7. Pawnshops for the posh

    New stores court high-end borrowers

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