The Dune Bible
Recently sold at auction for £277,200, The Dune Bible is the storyboard for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, which was famously never made. From an Instagram tour of the book:
The book contains a complete storyboard that tells the narrative of the proposed Dune film shot by shot, in addition to depictions of all the featured characters, vehicles, and environments by the greatest sci-fi artists of the time.
The auction house believes that only 20 of these bibles were ever made and only 10 have survived. An imperfect scan of the book appears to be available on The Internet Archive and here’s a sample of around 46 images.
A similar copy of the book was sold for $3 million in 2021 to a bunch of crypto-dopes who “believed that the purchase granted them the copyright to the book, which they intended to splice and sell as NFTs before burning the physical copy”.
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This really should be put back into print, what an epic publication.
A couple years ago someone dumped the contents in a Google Photos album.
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