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Widely considered one of the greatest works within the sci-figenre, Dune has been the subject of various film and TV adaptations, including an upcoming major motion picture slated for release in 2021. Tarantino Moves Forward Ethereum trading at $4,036 in the daily chart | ETHUSD on TradingView.Dune is a landmark science fiction novel first published in 1965 and the first in a 6-book saga penned by author Frank Herbert.
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They are “ figuring out how to navigate the maze of legal issues” before paying him back.ĭuneDAO has 30 days to settle payment, which they hope will give time to debate and vote on future plans for the physical object. They have now raised their target to $4,200,000, taking into account additional costs for storage, maintenance fees, digitization, and more. Now, the money is meant to be raised and reimbursed so the DAO can obtain the copy. “I just want people to experience it,” said the core member who contributed the winning amount.
The manuscript’s winning bid was $2,4M plus 20% christies auction fee, plus 5.5% VAT, for a total of $3,160,062, the group stated. Besides Christie’s claims on the unexpected 50x raise, a Twitter user alleged another bidder had “publicly let their top price slip”. Reportedly, only three years ago another copy sold for around $42,500. However, as the price went higher, a core member gave the rest of the money himself, roughly $2.3M. What Went Down At The Auctionīased on the price previously valued by Christie’s, DuneDAO thought they would secure the auction raising over $750k.
The list of ambitious ideas keeps going, explaining the reason for not meeting the budget, but also what makes fans call “the Dune Bible” a mythical sci-fi object. Orson Welles was to impersonate “Baron Harkonnen” and Salvador Dalí “The Emperor”. Pink Floyd was to contribute to the soundtrack. Giger’s concept art, Chris Foss starships’ designs. It features art from a few of the most renowned artists at the time, including Jean “Moebius” Giraud’s storyboard with over 3,000 illustrations, H.R. Its manuscript, however, records the dreams behind a 15-hour movie-to-be that created a landmark and allegedly inspired many famous movies to follow -like Star Wars, Alien, and Blade Runner. In a few words, Jodorowsky did compare the original Herbert’s novel to Proust.Īs explained in Frank Pavich’s documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, this was one of the most ambitious projects in cinematic history, but it never saw light because they lacked $5M to meet the $15M total budget. It does not mean a fractionalized ownership of it. The $SPICE token gives each a vote in the future of the money, the manuscript. Each contributor got governance tokens ($SPICE) accordingly to the donated amount. The group used the same platform as ConstitutionDAO, contributions were “handled via JuiceBox”.