In 1975, Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten-hour feature, in collaboration with Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize and Mick Jagger. It was at first proposed to score the film with original music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henry Cow and Magma; later on, the soundtrack was to be provided by Pink Floyd)

Jodorowsky's script would result in a 14-hour movie ("It was the size of a phonebook", Herbert later recalled). #Early_stalled_attempts) (reddit messes up the url for whatever reason)

the world couldn't handle a movie that godly