![]() ![]() ![]() Still the camera would continue forwards, past inhabited asteroids and the deep-space industrial complexes which refine the drug, until it found a small spacecraft carrying away the end result of this galactic economy: the dead bodies of those involved in the spice trade. We would see bands of space pirates attacking these craft and fighting to the death over their cargo, a life-giving drug known as Spice. The scene would have continued past convoys of mining trucks designed by the crème of European science fiction and surrealist artists, including Chris Foss, Moebius and H.R. ![]() The music was to be written and performed by Pink Floyd. It was to begin outside a spiral galaxy and then continuously track in, into the blazing light of billions of stars, past planets and wrecked spacecraft. The opening of the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s proposed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel, Dune, would have been the most ambitious single shot in cinema. Excerpted from "Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century" ![]()
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