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Writing About Dune Before I Get Sued

I have a couple stories in the works right now, but I figured until I'm done with those I would post a little something to entertain you guys. Now, to be fair, I originally saw this on TikTok, but the more I looked into it, the funnier it got. And if you don't care about background, I would skip down to point #2, because that's where things get really funny.   Around 1975, about 2 decades after Frank Herbert wrote his sci-fi novel Dune , Alejandro Jodorowsky wrote a colossal attempt of a movie adaptation. This infamous script would have boasted a massive budget, with names being mentioned like Pink Floyd, Mick Jagger, and Salvador Dali. This project is well known as "the most famous movie that was never made". An absolute titan of work, there are 10 original copies of this storyboard. Note that these are copies about the making of this proposed film, filled with story ideas, concept art, dialogue, and much more in English and in French. This is not the original bo