Would the 1973 Dune movie butterfly Star Wars?

Well the Dune movie this early could well delay Star Wars and almost certainly change it, the question is, how?

... Wait, there was an actress names Olivia Hussey?!:eek:
Hahahaha! Poor cow!:D

um... cow? She played Juliet in a rather well known movie and was quite the looker back in the day...

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You're making a huge mistake in assuming a 1973 Dune directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky would be a fun adventure movie instead of an incomprehensible and over-directed avant garde film clocking in at ten hours. No major actor would sign on for such an experiment. Most likely outcome: Pink Floyd's soundtrack is far better known than the movie itself.
Have you been reading the postings? Jodorowsky did not get the rights till 1975. The !973 Dune rights were own by Arthur P jacobs, who did Planet of the Apes. He could have gotten major stars.
 
DUNE 1973 Updated

Produced by Arthur P Jacob.
Directed by Franklin J Schaffner ( He be a better choice than Charles Jarrott.) He done Sci Fi before with Planet of the Apes, as well as epic films like Patton andd the Warlord.

Script first draft by Rospo Pallenberg. Final draft by Ray Bradbury and Harlin Ellison.

Cinematography by Fred Koenekamp (Did Patton with Schaffner)
Music Jerry Goldsmith (Work with Jacobs on Planet of the Ape and Schaffner on Patton)

Makeup John Chambers (Work on Planet of the Apes)
Effect by L A Abbott and A D Flowers (Oscar for Tora Tora Tora)
Space efects by Douglas Trumbull (2001 A Space Odessey)
Sandworm animation by Jim Danforth (Nominated for Oscar in 1971 for When Dinosaurs rule the Earth)


Paul Atreides- Micheal York
Gurney Halleck- Jame Coburn
Baron Harkonnen- Charlton Heston
Piter De Vries- Tom Baker
Feyd-Rautha- Maclcom Mcdowell
Emperor- Orson Wells
Princess Irulan -Oliva Hussey
Stilgar-Omar Sharif
Thufir hawat- Brian Blessed
Duncan Idoho- Robert Powell
Dr Wellington Yueh- Patrick Stewart
Glossu Rabban- Bud Spencer


We still need suggestion for the following
Lady Jessica
Alia atreides
Liet Kynes the imperial ecologist
The Reverend Mother
And Chani

Plot wise. It see film starting with the Princess explanning the backgroung.
Opening Credits
Than we start with the Harkonnen Raid on the Atreides on Arrakis.
We see Paul and jessica escape to the desert and meet the Freman.
(Any thing from the beginning of the book, can be seen in Flashback but I like the Idea of starting with the Assult. We get off with a bang>)
Plot stick with the book then till the end. Film Focus on the Conflict between the Harkonnen, the Emperor and the Freman now lead by Paul.
 
Produced by Arthur P Jacob.
Directed by Franklin J Schaffner ( He be a better choice than Charles Jarrott.) He done Sci Fi before with Planet of the Apes, as well as epic films like Patton andd the Warlord.

Script first draft by Rospo Pallenberg. Final draft by Ray Bradbury and Harlin Ellison.

Cinematography by Fred Koenekamp (Did Patton with Schaffner)
Music Jerry Goldsmith (Work with Jacobs on Planet of the Ape and Schaffner on Patton)

Makeup John Chambers (Work on Planet of the Apes)
Effect by L A Abbott and A D Flowers (Oscar for Tora Tora Tora)
Space efects by Douglas Trumbull (2001 A Space Odessey)
Sandworm animation by Jim Danforth (Nominated for Oscar in 1971 for When Dinosaurs rule the Earth)


Paul Atreides- Micheal York
Gurney Halleck- Jame Coburn
Baron Harkonnen- Charlton Heston
Piter De Vries- Tom Baker
Feyd-Rautha- Maclcom Mcdowell
Emperor- Orson Wells
Princess Irulan -Oliva Hussey
Stilgar-Omar Sharif
Thufir hawat- Brian Blessed
Duncan Idoho- Robert Powell
Dr Wellington Yueh- Patrick Stewart
Glossu Rabban- Bud Spencer


We still need suggestion for the following
Lady Jessica
Alia atreides
Liet Kynes the imperial ecologist
The Reverend Mother
And Chani

Plot wise. It see film starting with the Princess explanning the backgroung.
Opening Credits
Than we start with the Harkonnen Raid on the Atreides on Arrakis.
We see Paul and jessica escape to the desert and meet the Freman.
(Any thing from the beginning of the book, can be seen in Flashback but I like the Idea of starting with the Assult. We get off with a bang>)
Plot stick with the book then till the end. Film Focus on the Conflict between the Harkonnen, the Emperor and the Freman now lead by Paul.
I ran across a sugestion on another page that Lady Jessica be played by Genevieve Bujold. What do you think of her and How does that affect the future Star Trek Voyager?
 
And then there is Chani. I know Oliva Hussey been sugested but she does not seem to have the hardnest that a girl raised on a Desert planet would have.
I been looking for a actress for Chani. one possible I ran across was Lynne Frederick a British Actress who did no Blade of Grass in 1970 at 16 and did two british history series in 1971 and 1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Frederick

She would be 19 in 1973 so she the right age.
I know she not perfect but she the best I found so far.
 
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