Crypto Losers Buy Copy of Jodorowsky’s Dune, Play Themselves

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Earlier today, a group calling itself Spice DAO tweeted that they were the proud owners of an original book of Jodorowsky’s Dune, the collection of concept art and notes that included the doomed attempts by filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky to shoot a Dune movie in the 1970s.

Made (recently) famous by a 2014 documentary about the project, the film’s attempts to espouse the iconic artistic styles of Moebius, Chris Foss and HR Giger, as well as heavy doses of utterly crazy theatrical excesses from Jodorowsky himself , have given the tome a cult following. -like status among Dune fans.

The thing is, there isn’t just one book. Several copies must have been made at the time to be shared among various production members and executives, and it is estimated that there are still around ten copies still in the wild. One sold three years ago for just $42,500.

Which brings us to Spice DAO, which snagged a copy at auction last year for €2.66 million, or about $3 million US. Earlier today, a few months later, the group tweeted this incredibly ambitious mission statement:

This is the part where I tell you that Spice DAO is a crypto scam (there were shenanigans with the auction itself which you can read more about on Buzzfeed), using book preservation as a nice excuse to sell $SPICE tokens to people whose only return – other than the speculative “value” of the token itself – will be a chance to vote on what really happens with the book.

Which won’t be much, because they can’t convince everyone to make it public, because it already is; the book was scanned and photographed in 2021 and is available for anyone to read and enjoy right now, without the need to spend millions at auction or contribute to a crypto scam. And the “original animated series” pitch is even dumber, because if it gets too close to Herbert’s story and/or Jodorowsky’s vision, they’ll be shut down by the lawyers (since they bought a copy of a book, not the rights to the project), and if it’s only loosely based on it, why did they have to buy the book?

Leaving the team with… a copy of the book. Good luck voting on who gets to keep him at home on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

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