70s, and had enlisted the help of Jean Giraud (qv)  and H.R. Giger (qv) to create the movies visual style.  Salvador Dalí (qv) was enlisted to play the part of the Emperor,  and Jodorowsky also intended to cast his own son  Brontis Jodorowsky (qv) as Paul, David Carradine (qv) as Duke  Leto, Orson Welles (qv) as the Baron, and Gloria Swanson (qv) as  the Benne Geserit Reverend Mother. The soundtrack was to be done by  Pink Floyd (qv). According to Jodorowsky, "The project was  sabotaged in Hollywood. It was French and not American. Their  message was not Hollywood enough. There was intrigue, plunder. The  storyboard was circulated among all the big studios. Later, the  visual aspect of _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv) strangely resembled our  style. To make _Alien (1979)_ (qv), they called Moebius [Giraud],  Foss, Giger, OBannon, etc. The project signaled to Americans the  possibility of making a big show of science