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The best (or may just the coolest/weirdest) version of Dune will never see the light of day. It was supposed to be directed by cult hero Alejandro Jodorowsky with contributions with equally amazing underground and cult artists like illustrator Jean "Moebius" Giraud. I read somewhere that he even had Salvador Dali on board.

The project went way over budget and the few script and storyboard advances took ages to complete. Here is some info

Where the hell did this guy leave This Movie? Dali, Jodorowsky, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Giger (pre-alien), Orson Wells.
This is the greatest S/F film never made.

I thought that the Rover was stuck on Dune.

Am I the only one who saw "ornithopter" in the headline and thought "Dune"? That's certainly the only place I've ever seen the word before.

Best artist's conception I could find on short notice:
http://www.duneinfo.com/michael/images/landing.jpg

No kidding. Put one in me now! And while you're at it, you might as well install a heart plug.

"not priced correctly"?? What is the "correct" price of something? The price is whatever the market will bare [sic]. If I have a resource, I am not going to sell it to you for the "correct" price. I am going to sell it for whatever you will pay for it (and still make a profit).

Ok, this is basic price theory. The price that is set by the market is the 'correct' price. If you are successful in selling something to someone, that means that the price of the thing being sold is the correct price - it's higher than the value of the item to the seller, and it's lower than the value of the item to the buyer. You are both better off.

So by selling something for 'whatever you will pay for it', you are working within the market to drive the price to it's proper level. If you have something that is relatively in demand (like bottled water in the desert) then you will demand a higher price for it; the higher price is a signal to the market that the thing you are selling is relatively scarce. People will see the high price and buy less of it (1st Law of Demand). They will also change their behavior accordingly and try to find cheaper alternatives over time (2nd Law of Demand). Presto - instant conservation.

(Notice that in the above example you are not acting altruistically at all - yet the result of your self-interested actions leads to the conservation of the scarce resource.)

Corporations don't care about "best use."

That's ridiculous. Of course they do, at least if they're for-profit corporations.

They just want to sell a product... as much of it as possible. Their drive to be efficient with resources only extends as far as profit demands.

Exactly! And since these corporations are constantly chasing profits, they will try to be as efficient as possible with (i.e. make best use of) their resources so as to maximize profits.

When resources are relatively plentiful and cheap, it is often more more profitable to waste resources than to conserve them.

Obviously. Which is why you don't see people walking around in stillsuits. The cost of conservation of plentiful resources is not worth it.

For that matter, what's the crack about House Atreides? Ornithopters were in the original Dune book (and the original Dune movie). Forget about the crap prequels written by hacks after Herbert's death. (He wrote enough crap sequels to the brillaint first book himself.)

I've never read the series though I hav read tons of sci-fi books. I saw the origional movie before I joined the Navy out of HS and started reading Sci-Fi. This is still the first half of the Frank Herbert Dune timeline. Its looking like one or two more mini-series' are in order (God Emperor of Dune,Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune). Let's hope this series makes a bundle so they keep making them.

Here is an rare drawing of the initial design...